RC21 Blogs

Concordance analysis is still something that humans do best Author: Gavin Brookes Published: 28 November 2024 Concordancing is, in my view, the most important technique in the corpus linguist’s toolkit. Essentially, it offers us a different way of looking at the language in a corpus...

Susan Hunston and Sui Xin: Accounting for What is Observed in Concordance Lines Author: Alexander Piperski Published: Posted on 4 November 2024 In this guest post, Susan Hunston, a professor at the University of Birmingham and member of the RC21 advisory board, and Sui Xin from Capi...

Laurence Anthony: Breaking New Ground with AI-Enhanced Concordance Analysis Author: Alexander Piperski Published: Posted on 28 October 2024 In this guest post, Laurence Anthony, Professor at Waseda University (Japan) and a member of the RC21 advisory board, summarizes his talk on co...

Diversity and Innovation in Concordance Organization and Interpretation: Workshop at ICAME45 Author: Alexander Piperski Published: Posted on 2 July 2024 Concordance reading is a cornerstone of corpus linguistics, facilitating in-depth analysis and interpretation of linguistic data. ...

Author: Natalie Finlayson | Published: 26 April 2024 We are excited to introduce Deutsche Romane des 19. Jahrhunderts (DE19), a 4.5-million-word corpus of nineteenth-century German novels designed to be comparable to the 19th Century Reference Corpus of English (EN19). DE1...

What is the RC21 Project All About? Author:Natalie Finlayson Published:30 October 2023 Organising and interpreting concordance lines via a Key Word in Context (KWIC) display format is probably the most central technique in corpus linguistics. This kind of vertical ‘reading’ helps anal...