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Every year in November, France eagerly awaits the Beaujolais Nouveau and the new edition of the reference dictionary of French: Le Robert. As New York Times wine critic Eric Asimov wrote: “Beaujolais is a far...
Every year in November, France eagerly awaits the Beaujolais Nouveau and the new edition of the reference dictionary of French: Le Robert. As New York Times wine critic Eric Asimov wrote: “Beaujolais is a far...
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...
The 11th International Conference on Construction Grammar (ICCG11) takes place from Wednesday 18 till Friday 20 August 2021. It covers a broad range of topics related to Construction Grammar approaches to language. My talk...
L’Ecole Doctorale 139 de l’Université Paris Nanterre organise un séminaire pluridisciplinaire thématique. Cette année (2020-2021), le thème imposé est “Preuves et présomptions”. Avec Sylvain Kahane, professeur en sciences du langage à l’Université Paris Nanterre,...
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...
The dplyr package is based on a data manipulation ‘grammar’. This grammar provides a consistent set of ‘verbs’ that solve the most common data manipulation tasks. I illustrate five of these ‘verbs’: filter(), arrange(), select(), mutate(), and summarise().
The tidyr package is part of the tidyverse. As its name indicates, it is meant to help you create tidy data or tidy messy data according to the tidy data principles: each variable forms a column; each observation forms a row; each type of observational unit forms a table. This post illustrates how to tidy a data set in R using two tidyr functions: pivot_longer() and separate().
Since the publication of my book on corpus linguistics with R, many colleagues have asked me if I was planning to switch the whole code to the tidy style (some of the code in the book makes use of some tidyverse packages. If you want to know my answer, please read on.
In a previous post, I showed how to use the igraph package for R to plot a graph of the nominal collocates of the verbs hoard and stockpile in the Coronavirus Corpus (Davies, 2020)....
This post is a follow-up to the previous one on graph theory and corpus linguistics. I show how to plot a graph of collocation networks with R and the igraph package. The case study...
This short post is the first of a series on network graphs for corpus linguistics. Because of the COVID19 pandemic, such graphs have been in the spotlight in the last few months for their...
In 2017, I was appointed as Junior Research Fellow to the Institut Universitaire de France for five years (2017-2022). The goal of this post is two-fold. I am now halfway through my 5-year research project, and...
Fellow Institut Universitaire de France colleague Julien Longhi invited me to give a talk at AFLA2020, the annual meeting of the French Association of Applied Linguistics. The event took place at CY Cergy Paris...
This post is a short introduction to plotting choropleth maps with Tableau, a commercial data visualization software. I show how to plot such maps using the BBC Voices dataset. Tableau software In a previous...
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...