Text Analytics for Corpus Linguistics and Digital Humanities: Simple R Scripts and Tools

"Helping to understand and apply state-of-the-art text analytics methods to detect and visualize phenomena in text data, this book shows readers how to conduct experiments with their own corpora and research questions, underpin their theories, quantify the differences and pinpoint characteristics. It also demonstrates how to use the programming language R, as well as simple alternatives and additions to R, to conduct experiments and employ visualisations by example, with extensible R-code, recipes, links to corpora, and a wide range of methods. The methods introduced can be used across texts of all disciplines, from history or literature to party manifestos and patient reports"--