Quantitative Corpus Linguistics with R: A Practical Introduction / Edition 2

ISBN-13: 9781138816275 Publisher: Taylor & Francis Publication date: 11/02/2016 Edition description: 2nd ed. Pages: 286 Product dimensions: 7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d) As in its first edition, the new edition of Quantitative Corpus Linguistics with R demonstrates how to process corpus-linguistic data with the open-source programming language and environment R. Geared in general towards linguists working with observational data, and particularly corpus linguists, it introduces R programming with emphasis on: data processing and manipulation in general; text processing with and without regular expressions of large bodies of textual and/or literary data, and; basic aspects of statistical analysis and visualization. This book is extremely hands-on and leads the reader through dozens of small applications as well as larger case studies. Along with an array of exercise boxes and separate answer keys, the text features a didactic sequential approach in case studies by way of subsections th