Название: Ten Lectures on Corpus Linguistics with R : Applications for Usage-Based and Psycholinguistic Research
Автор: Stefan Th. Gries
Издательство: Brill
Год: 2020
Страниц: 311
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 27.2 MB

Stefan Th. Gries provides an overview on how quantitative corpus methods can provide insights to cognitive/usage-based linguistics and selected psycholinguistic questions as well as introductory examples of how to use R for such research.

R is a very powerful tool, it’s a very powerful programming language, but that of course also means there’s a little bit of a limit on how much one can cover in any one set of short sessions. What I’ll try is I’ll give you at least a good overview of the kinds of things you can do and I’ll discuss using some code examples that have been made available, some applications of how you can get very simple things done. This kind of practice sessions are going to be extremely different from the talks: There’s not going to be a lot of slides or anything, not going to be any theoretical stuff, but rather it’s going to be about data processing with R of a certain bunch of corpus data.

A lot of people have been using a Perl in the past, many people are still, of course, using Python for text processing or any kinds of natural language data processing, I’m using R all the time, the main reason for that being that, first, I think it’s simpler than definitely Perl, maybe than Python. Secondly, I like the idea of being able to use one and the same programming language both for everything that has to do with my text processing and then also for the statistical analysis. Another way of putting this would be, I’m happy that I can be lazy. I don’t need to learn different tools. I can do it all within one.

Contents:

Note on Supplementary Material
Preface by the Series Editor
Preface by the Author
About the Author
1 Corpus Linguistics: the (Methods of the) Field and Its Relation to Cognitive Linguistics
2 On—and/or Against—Frequencies
3 Frequency: Practice with R
4 On Recency and Dispersion
5 Dispersion: Practice with R
6 On Association
7 Association: Practice with R
8 On Context
9 Concordance, Surprisal, Entropy: Practice with R
10 Corpus-Linguistic Applications in Cognitive/Usage-Based Explorations of Learner Language
References