Text Analysis with R - For Students of Literature (Paperback, 2nd ed. 2020)

Now in its second edition, Text Analysis with R provides a practical introduction to computational text analysis using the open source programming language R. R is an extremely popular programming language, used throughout the sciences; due to its accessibility, R is now used increasingly in other research areas. In this volume, readers immediately begin working with text, and each chapter examines a new technique or process, allowing readers to obtain a broad exposure to core R procedures and a fundamental understanding of the possibilities of computational text analysis at both the micro and the macro scale. Each chapter builds on its predecessor as readers move from small scale "microanalysis" of single texts to large scale "macroanalysis" of text corpora, and each concludes with a set of practice exercises that reinforce and expand upon the chapter lessons. The book's focus is on making the technical palatable and making the technical useful and immediately gratifying. Text Analysis with R is written with students and scholars of literature in mind but will be applicable to other humanists and social scientists wishing to extend their methodological toolkit to include quantitative and computational approaches to the study of text. Computation provides access to information in text that readers simply cannot gather using traditional qualitative methods of close reading and human synthesis. This new edition features two new chapters: one that introduces dplyr and tidyr in the context of parsing and analyzing dramatic texts to extract speaker and receiver data, and one on sentiment analysis using the syuzhet package. It is also filled with updated material in every chapter to integrate new developments in the field, current practices in R style, and the use of more efficient algorithms.

General

Imprint:	Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Quantitative Methods in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Release date:	March 2021
First published:	2020
Authors:	Matthew L. Jockers • Rosamond Thalken
Dimensions:	235 x 155mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	277
Edition:	2nd ed. 2020
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-039645-9
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Computational linguistics Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social research & statistics > General Books > Computing & IT > Computer software packages > Other software packages > Mathematical & statistical software
LSN:	3-03-039645-2
Barcode:	9783030396459

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