Paul Rayson, the developer of Wmatrix, and I are currently discussing corpus linguistics, text mining tools, their application in the field of history and tools development - you are invited to have a look at the discussion or join us in the new Wmatrix user group forum:

http://www.arts-humanities.net/wmatrix/forum/interview_paul_...

Dr. Paul Rayson is director of the UCREL research centre and a teaching fellow in the Computing Department at Lancaster University in Lancaster, UK. [read more...]

This is an audio recording of the presentation 'Keywords and Moral Panics: Mary Whitehouse and Media Censorship' given by Tony McEnery, University of Lancaster, UK, at the Methods Network expert seminar on linguistics: Word Frequency and Keyword Extraction (Lancaster University, 8 Sep 2005).

This is an audio recording of the presentation 'In Search of a Bad Reference Corpus' given by Mike Scott, University of Liverpool, UK, at the Methods Network expert seminar on linguistics: Word Frequency and Keyword Extraction (Lancaster University, 8 Sep 2005).

This is an audio recording of the presentation 'Issues for Historical Corpora: First Catch Your Word' given by Christian Kay, University of Glasgow, Scotland, at the Methods Network expert seminar on linguistics: Word Frequency and Keyword Extraction (Lancaster University, 8 Sep 2005).

Invited speakers (alphabetical order):

Harald Baayen, University of Alberta (Canada)
Doug Biber, Northern Arizona University (United States)
Laurel Brinton, University of British Columbia (Canada)
Susan Hunston, University of Birmingham (UK)
Tony McEnery, Lancaster University (UK)

Place: Brigham Young University. Provo, Utah, USA
Website: http://corpus.byu.edu/aacl2008

is a software tool for corpus analysis and comparison. It provides a web interface to the USAS and CLAWS corpus annotation tools, and standard corpus linguistic methodologies such as frequency lists and concordances. It also extends the keywords method to key grammatical categories and key semantic fields. [read more...]

Multiple Text Datasets
Corpora
Corpus linguistics
Text Mining
Textual Analysis
Data Mining [read more...]

Two weeks ago I was in Glasgow, discussing Text Mining for Historians. The workshop started with a couple of presentations that gave a more general introduction into the field, describing specific projects, tools or concepts such as corpus linguistics. [read more...]