In a previous post, I showed how to use the igraph package for R to plot a graph of the nominal collocates of the verbs hoard and stockpile in the Coronavirus Corpus (Davies, 2020). In this post, I ...show how to do the same with the ggraph package. ggraph On February 2017, Thomas Lin Pedersen announced the release of ggraph on CRAN. The motivation for ggraphis the following: The grammar of graphics as implemented in ggplot2 is a poor fit for graph and network visualizations due to its rel...
This post is a follow-up to the previous one on graph theory and corpus linguistics. I show how to plot a graph of collocation networks with R and the igraph package. The case study focuses on the ...nominal collocates of two near-synonymous verbs in the brand new Coronavirus Corpus: hoard and stockpile. Graphs are linguistically relevant A graph consists of vertices (nodes) and edges (links). In Fig. 1a, each circle is a node and each line is an edge. Each edge denotes a relationship betwee...
This short post is the first of a series on network graphs for corpus linguistics. Because of the COVID19 pandemic, such graphs have been in the spotlight in the last few months for their ability to ...illustrate and explain how and how fast an infection spreads across a population. Because I am not an epidemiologist, I will merely show to what extent network graphs can prove useful to corpus linguists, starting with collocation networks. I became interested in networks after I read Albert-Lá...
Degré et intensification Bordet, Lucile; Desagulier, Guillaume; Desurmont, Christopher ...
Anglophonia : French journal of English studies,
11/2015
Journal Article
Recenzirano
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Trois articles ciblent tout d'abord de façon plus ou moins directe les phénomènes d'intensification et de degré sous l'angle de la typologie (Lucie Bordet et Denis Jamet), des méthodes fines ...d'investigation (Guillaume Desagulier), ou des effets en contexte (Christopher Desurmont). Deux textes offrent enfin deux éclairages sur les recherches contemporaines : le premier (Fabienne Toupin) en revenant sur la philosophie du langage d'une des grandes figures de l'énonciation, Henri Adamczewski ; et le second (Stephan Wilhelm) en proposant une réflexion minutieuse sur un phénomène prosodique diffus (le “high rising terminal”). Avec la participation du CAS (Cultures Anglo-Saxonnes – Université Toulouse-Jean Jaurès)
In 2017, I was appointed as Junior Research Fellow to the Institut Universitaire de France for five years (2017-2022). The goal of this post is two-fold. I am now halfway through my 5-year research ...project, and I would like to take this opportunity to invite colleagues and prospective PhD students to collaborate on this project. Although I cannot offer fully-funded PhD positions, I can nevertheless provide substantial funding for specific missions having to do with the project. If you are int...
Fellow Institut Universitaire de France colleague Julien Longhi invited me to give a talk at AFLA2020, the annual meeting of the French Association of Applied Linguistics. The event took place at CY ...Cergy Paris University on Feb. 6th 2020. My talk was an introduction to two scripts: BNC.query() and BNC.2014.query(). Click the image below to access the slides (in French): citeCite this article as: {author}, "{title}," in {sitename}, {publication_date}, {permalink}./cite
This post is a short introduction to plotting choropleth maps with Tableau, a commercial data visualization software. I show how to plot such maps using the BBC Voices dataset. Tableau software In a ...previous post, I described how to plot data from the BNC 2014 with R. As is often the case with R, the procedure is definitely not beginner-friendly, but at least one gets to plot exactly what one wants exactly the way one wants. Tableau is a commercial data visualization interface, (( Howe...
In a previous post, I showed how to run HCA with the base-R hclust() function. Here, I introduce a package whose benefit is to provide a way of validating clusters: pvclust. This package allows the ...user to include confidence estimates through multiscale bootstrap resampling. The motivation for this post is a I received after I advertised for hclust() on Twitter. https://twitter.com/JWGrieve/status/1140653177626402816 Admittedly, HCA finds clusters even when we expect there to be none...
(updated Sept. 27th, 2019) This post provides an introduction to doing regional dialectology in the UK with R. More specifically, I focus on mapping lexical variables from the spoken component of the ...British National Corpus 2014. The goal is to see if we observe patterns of regional variation with respect to pre-identified lexical alternations. I was inspired by two colleagues: Jack Grieve and Mathieu Avanzi. Jack is Professor of Corpus Linguistics in the Department of English Language an...
Last month, my paper "Can word vectors help corpus linguists?" was published in Studia Neophilologica. It is part of a special issue following a conference on corpus linguistics held at Avignon ...University on June 9-10, 2016 : Nouvelles approches du corpus en linguistique anglaise (New approaches to corpora in English linguistics, NACLA1). The event was organized by my esteemed colleague Prof. Graham Ranger, who also edited the volume along with Prof. Dr. Sebastian Hoffmann (Universität Trier,...
