Creating frequency lists with R
In a previous post, I provided two frequency lists without revealing the scripts to make them. This post explains how to create word frequency lists (lemmatized and unlemmatized) from the BNC 2014 (spoken), using...
A corpus linguist's research notebook
In a previous post, I provided two frequency lists without revealing the scripts to make them. This post explains how to create word frequency lists (lemmatized and unlemmatized) from the BNC 2014 (spoken), using...
(updated Sept. 27th, 2019) This post provides an introduction to doing regional dialectology in the UK with R. More specifically, I focus on mapping lexical variables from the spoken component of the British National...
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...
BNC.query() is an interactive R script that I wrote for a course in computational sociolinguistics last semester. It is designed to run queries over the BNC-XML (spoken component). It extracts a single word or...
Last edit: June 7th, 2019 BNC.2014.query() is an interactive R script that I wrote for a course in computational sociolinguistics last semester. It is designed to run queries over the BNC-2014 (spoken component). It...
This post is the first of a series on word embeddings, i.e. vector representations of words in a vector space. Word embeddings have been known to linguists for quite some time. Recently, artificial neural networks have...
This semester, I teach corpus-based sociolinguistics to third-year students. One challenge is to compile corpora that are suitable for the study of variation in language, especially when variation is correlated with geographic origin. Another...
[This post was published previously on Rpubs on Feb. 16th, 2016. This is an updated version.] To split or to not split My linguistics students asked me if the split infinitive had been invented...