Tag: methodology
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The uses of topic modeling in CORECON: Potentials and challenges
Topic modeling is an umbrella term used to denote a host of semi-automated or fully automated corpus linguistic methods that aim to map the content of texts by identifying dominant themes. When driven by an algorithm that is trained in either a supervised or unsupervised manner on a dataset, the method makes it possible to…
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Corpus compilation and data annotation protocols in CORECON
Data collection is the base for any empirical study and corpus analysis is a well-established method used within critical discourse studies. Jędrzej Olejniczak in his blogpost wrote about data collection, management and processing in CORECON. Here I explain the motivations behind methodological choices and our rationales in data collection and data annotation protocols used when…
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What can collocations tell us about patterns of representation of Russian-Ukrainian conflict in tabloids?
The identification and analysis of collocations – statistically significant bonds and frequent pairings of words in a corpus or sample – can be used to obtain insight into conceptual relationships and terminological associations. Some of the salient collocations can be quite novel or ideologically charged, which can allow us to notice patterns that would be…