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Digital Dickens: An automated content analysis of Charles Dickens’ novels

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2024
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Schneider, G. (2024). Digital Dickens: An automated content analysis of Charles Dickens’ novels. In S. Buschfeld, P. Ronan, T. Neumaier, A. Wellinghoff, & L. Westermayer (Eds.), Crossing Boundaries through Corpora: Innovative corpus approaches within and beyond linguistics (pp. 62–98). John Benjamins Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.119

Abstract

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Abstract

This investigation employs computational linguistic methods such as document classification, topic modelling, and distributional semantics to scrutinize eight novels by Charles Dickens, uncovering dimensions of social criticism, literary realism, and narrative structures. While affirming positive results for automated analysis of social criticism, the study emphasizes that it could discover differing associations only due to semantic abstraction, which distributional semantics, word embeddings, and topic modelling can offer. Literary

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  • Schneider, Gerold
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  • Buschfeld, Sarah
  • Ronan, Patricia
  • Neumaier, Theresa
  • Wellinghoff, Andreas
  • Westermayer, Lisa

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Crossing Boundaries through Corpora: Innovative corpus approaches within and beyond linguistics

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Amsterdam

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62

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98

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English

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2024-10-01

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2025-01-09

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Studies in Corpus Linguistics

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1388-0373

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9789027246486

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Green

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Schneider, G. (2024). Digital Dickens: An automated content analysis of Charles Dickens’ novels. In S. Buschfeld, P. Ronan, T. Neumaier, A. Wellinghoff, & L. Westermayer (Eds.), Crossing Boundaries through Corpora: Innovative corpus approaches within and beyond linguistics (pp. 62–98). John Benjamins Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.119

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