An Introduction to Quantitative Text Analysis for Linguistics equips students and researchers with the essential concepts and practical programming skills needed to conduct quantitative text analysis in a reproducible manner. This book assumes no prior experience with statistics or programming.
An Introduction to Quantitative Text Analysis for Linguistics equips students and researchers with the essential concepts and practical programming skills needed to conduct quantitative text analysis in a reproducible manner. This book assumes no prior experience with statistics or programming.
Jerid Francom is Associate Professor of Spanish and Linguistics at Wake Forest University. His research focuses on the use of language corpora from a variety of sources (news, social media, and other internet sources) to better understand the linguistic and cultural similarities and differences between language varieties for both scholarly and pedagogical projects. He has published on topics including the development, annotation, and evaluation of linguistic corpora and analyzed corpora through corpus, psycholinguistic, and computational methodologies. He also has experience working with and teaching statistical programming with R.
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Acknowledgments Preface I Orientation 1 Text analysis Activities Summary II Foundations 2 Data Activities Summary 3 Analysis Activities Summary 4 Research Activities Summary III Preparation 5 Acquire Activities Summary 6 Curate Activities Summary 7 Transform Activities Summary IV Analysis 8 Explore Activities Summary 9 Predict Activities Summary 10 Infer Activities Summary V Communication 11 Contribute Activities Summary References Index
