Corpus Analysis with Antconc

Froehlich, Heather

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“…In particular, lessons that teach skills that we might describe as 'data mining' or analysing large volumes of materials, were much more popular with English readers than those from other language groups. This included lessons on getting started with topic modeling, corpus linguistics basics, and downloading large numbers of webpages semiautomatically -for example to download a large database one page at a time for offline analysis (Graham et al, 2012;Milligan, 2012;Froehlich, 2015). Given the buzz around data mining in the English press, this shows an alignment between English buzz and English skills seeking.…”

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Digital History: The Globally Unequal Promise of Digital Tools for History: UK and Colombia’s Case Study

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Afanador-Llach²

2021

Teaching History for the Contemporary World

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This chapter examines the opportunities presented by new 'digital' history tools. It argues that data wrangling and data crunching allows historians to ask new questions that we have never been able to ask before, because we can now make sense of data that was previously inaccessible. The promise of big data and new digital tools has been one of the key conversations of the past decade. However, it's not a globally equal promise. It's come on the back of nearly two decades of mass digitization that privileged the historical sources of the West, and of Anglophone countries in particular. Those data were created predominantly through the cultural perspectives and technical infrastructures of those same privileged nations. The original records themselves were produced as the result of an advanced bureaucracy designed to administer a global empire. Thus, many of these new techniques are inaccessible to scholars studying or living in countries that today some people call the 'Global South'. Not only are the data not digitized, but sometimes the sources simply do not exist because of the historic nature of the archive: what was recorded, and what has survived. These deep digital divides are made worse by a lack of technical infrastructures in many countries. Even in the wealthy countries of the West, social barriers and the expectations of humanities students to be able to avoid mathematics and computers raise difficulties for educators attempting to help students make the most of the digital age. This chapter therefore takes a West/South look at the promises of the 'digital' age for history, through the different challenges faced in the UK and Colombia respectively, to show not only what the future might hold, but also where we still need to focus our energy in pursuit of a more equitable learning environment of the future.

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Digital History: The Globally Unequal Promise of Digital Tools for History: UK and Colombia’s Case Study

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Afanador-Llach²

2021

Teaching History for the Contemporary World

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“…Considering the least central words reminds us of discussions in the Digital Humanities regarding text analysis techniques, such as topic modelling or term frequency-inverse distribution frequency about whether or not to include stop-words. Stop-words are the very frequent words such as 'the, of, and' which seemingly do not carry much weight for determining larger patterns, yet are very telling when we do work such as author attribution or stylometry (see, for instance, [47,48]). Is what we are doing closer in concept to topic modeling, or closer in concept to stylometry?…”

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Towards a Digital Sensorial Archaeology as an Experiment in Distant Viewing of the Trade in Human Remains on Instagram

2020

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It is possible to purchase human remains via Instagram. We present an experiment using computer vision and automated annotation of over ten thousand photographs from Instagram, connected with the buying and selling of human remains, in order to develop a distant view of the sensory affect of these photos: What macroscopic patterns exist, and how do these relate to the self-presentation of these individual vendors? Using Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing and machine learning services, we annotate and then visualize the co-occurrence of tags as a series of networks, giving us that macroscopic view. Vendors are clearly trying to mimic ‘museum’-like experiences, with differing degrees of effectiveness. This approach may therefore be useful for even larger-scale investigations of this trade beyond this single social media platform.

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“…Thus, the method could be described as a "close reading" of the texts instead of digitally assisted "distant reading". The latter, intended to be used with large-scale textual material, such as corpora and other "big data", may prove useful because "it allows us to see things that we don't necessarily see when reading as humans" (Froehlich 2015). For instance, digital methodologies help in mapping patterns of grammatical use and in detecting statistically likely or unlikely phrases.…”

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Nationalism as an argument in contemporary Russia. Four perspectives on language in action

Laine¹

2021

Commentationes Scientiarum Socialium

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This dissertation analyses the uses of the concept of nationalism in Russia from a historical perspective. It is based on four empirical studies examining textual material produced between the years 2000 and 2020. During this time, and after the so-called “conservative turn” in particular, the state leadership in Russia adopted increasingly authoritarian policies vis-à-vis society, and started to portray Russia as being under an external threat. The annexation of Crimea and the onset of the war in Ukraine in 2014 solidified the way in which recent political changes in Russia were characterised as “growing nationalism”. In this temporal context, the study suggests that nationalist discourses are currently shifting, and traces these shifts in scholarly and everyday language. The negative connotations of nationalism in everyday language affect its scholarly use, which is why the aspects of nationalism as an analytical concept, as well as the complex relationship between the concept and the term itself, are expounded in the study. Following the tradition of critical nationalism studies, the dissertation approaches the ‘nation’ as a political claim that results from a constructive process in language. The dissertation draws on the rhetorical tradition of conceptual history in analysing specific concepts, metaphors and narratives within nationalist discourses as a means of framing politics. The way language is used simultaneously defines the boundaries of actual policies. More specifically, the rhetorical choices of politicians map the conditions of belonging to a nation, duly having real implications for people’s lives.

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Corpus Analysis with Antconc

Abstract: Corpus analysis is a form of text analysis which allows you to make comparisons between textual objects at a large scale (so-called 'distant reading').

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Digital History: The Globally Unequal Promise of Digital Tools for History: UK and Colombia’s Case Study

Digital History: The Globally Unequal Promise of Digital Tools for History: UK and Colombia’s Case Study

Towards a Digital Sensorial Archaeology as an Experiment in Distant Viewing of the Trade in Human Remains on Instagram

Nationalism as an argument in contemporary Russia. Four perspectives on language in action

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