Introduction
Overview of the tutorial
Aymeric Collart
Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica
2024-11-26
Structure and workflow of the tutorial
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Chapters and section of the tutorial
| Chapter 1: Getting started | |
|---|---|
| Download and install R/RStudio | link |
| Presentation of R/RStudio | link |
| Working with markdown files | link |
| Chapter 2: Let’s get our data | |
|---|---|
| Understanding where the data are on the Internet | link |
| Scraping the data from the web with R | link |
| Chapter 3: Cleaning and analyzing the data | |
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| Preprocess the data: Cleaning and transformations | link |
| Analyzing the data | link |
What this tutorial does NOT cover
- Fundamental concepts of corpus linguistics
- How to ask a research question and how to motivate it
- Advanced statistical methods in corpus linguistics (classification analyses, vector space representations)
If you are interested in it, you can read the book published by Anatol Stefanowitsch in 2020, available for free here.
How to get through the exercises
The best (if not only) way to learn how to use programming language is just with practice. There are two ways to do so throughout the tutorial. In either case, I highly recommend to use markdown scripts.
- I will provide at the beginning of each section a markdown file prefilled with the structure of the section. You can download this file and open it with R, and just paste the codes at the relevant sections of the script.
- Alternatively, you may wish to write the script yourself, and to work based on the codes in each section. This is a great way to learn how to structure a markdown file alone!