Overview

The first textbook of its kind, Quantitative Corpus Linguistics with R demonstrates how to use the open source programming language R for corpus linguistic analyses. Computational and corpus linguists doing corpus work will find that R provides an enormous range of functions that currently require several programs to achieve -- searching and processing corpora, arranging and outputting the results of corpus searches, statistical evaluation, and graphing.

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Author:   Stefan Th. Gries
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   0.636kg
ISBN:  

9780415962711

ISBN 10:   0415962714
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   26 March 2009
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Replaced By:   9781138816275
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock  

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 1.1 Why Another Introduction to Corpus Linguistics? 1.2 Outline of the Book 1.3 Recommendation for Instructors 2. Three Central Corpus-linguistic Methods 2.1 Corpora 2.2 Frequency Lists 2.3 Lexical Co-occurrence: Collocations 2.4 (Lexico-)Grammatical Co-occurence: Concordances 3. An Introduction to R 3.1 A few Central Notions: Data structures, Functions, and Arguments 3.2 Vectors 3.3 Factors 3.4 Data Frames 3.5 Lists 3.6 Elementary Programming Functions 3.7 Character/String Processing 3.8 File and Directory Operations 4. Using R in Corpus Linguistics 4.1 Frequency Lists 4.2 Concordances 4.3 Collocations 4.4 Excursus 1: Processing Multi-tiered Corpora 4.5 Excursus 2: Unicode 5. Some Statistics for Corpus Linguistics 5.1 Introduction to Statistical Thinking 5.2 Categorical Dependent Variables 5.3 Interval/Ratio Dependent Variables 5.4 Customizing Statistical Plots 5.5 Reporting Results 6. Case Studies and Pointers to Other Applications 6.1 Introduction to the Case Studies 6.2 Some Pointers to Further Applications Appendix References Endnotes Index

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This book is a must for every corpus linguist's desk right beside the computer - that's where it does its wonders. - International Journal of Corpus Linguistics

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Stefan Th. Gries is Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA.

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