Workshop: Text mining and large-scale text analysis,

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Following the public talk, Prof. Nichols will run a hands-on workshop focused on the basics of text mining and large-scale text analysis, and using Donald Sturgeon’s Chinese Text Project corpus as our material. Although the text to be analyzed is in classical Chinese, the workshop itself will be held in English, and knowledge of classical Chinese—though helpful—is not strictly necessary to benefit from the workshop.
Prior to the workshop, participants are requested to download the latest version of <A HREF="http://www.laurenceanthony.net/software/antconc/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">AntConc</A>, a freeware text-mining application for all platforms. It would be best if participants began to familiarize themselves with how to use the program by uploading a text file and playing with it beforehand, but they will be walked through its use in the workshop. In addition, participants are asked to follow the Dropbox link below so that they can download the corpus to be analyzed during the workshop onto their local hard drive.
AntConc: http://www.laurenceanthony.net/software/antconc/
Click <A HREF="https://www.dropbox.com/sh/28hgkxvkxpxdvp1/AAAAbLu1n2EG6F35jKqF5tPia?dl=0" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">here</A> for the link to the corpus to be analyzed during the workshop (the ctext.org Chinese Text Project corpus), please download ahead of time the file “Alltexts”.

Multipurpose Room, Liu Institute

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