A whale of a tool: navigating texts with Voyant Tools
As a corpus linguist, I happen to teach my students how to use R for text analysis. However, due to the steep learning curve associated with R, I sometimes need to provide more accessible,...
As a corpus linguist, I happen to teach my students how to use R for text analysis. However, due to the steep learning curve associated with R, I sometimes need to provide more accessible,...
Martin Schweinberger and Michael Haugh (University of Queensland, Australia) invited me to to give a LADAL Opening Webinar Series 2021 talk. I felt quite honored to be part of a prestigious panel of fellow...
Multidimensional scaling (MDS) is a very popular multivariate exploratory approach because it is relatively old, versatile, and easy to understand and implement. It is used to visualize distances in multidimensional maps (in general: two-dimensional...
In a previous post, I showed how to run HCA with the base-R hclust() function. Here, I introduce a package whose benefit is to provide a way of validating clusters: pvclust. This package allows...
Hierarchical cluster analysis (HCA) belongs to the family of multifactorial exploratory approaches. What it does is cluster individuals based on the distance between them. I illustrate HCA with the preposition data set described here....
In a previous post, I showcased the development of the split infinitive 1 I wanted to check whether the split infinitive had spiked after the airing of the original Star Trek series in the late...
I am pleased to announce that I will teach a course on exploratory statistics for corpus linguistics at the Corpus Linguistics Summer School. The summer school will take place at the University of Birmingham...
The data set presented here was compiled by Frédérique Gayet, a psychomotor therapist whose research I supervised in 2013. Gayet (2013) focused on spatial prepositions in French: à côté de “next to” en dessous...
I am a big fan of old corpora. Of course, I do also appreciate XXL corpora compiled semi-blindly from the Web. But, comparatively speaking, the older corpora have the kind of spick-and-span internal structure...