Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-235) and index.
Contents
The three central corpus-linguistic methods -- An introduction to R -- Using R in corpus linguistics -- Some statistics for corpus linguistics -- Case studies and pointers to other applications.
Summary
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.