This paper explores keywords, key part-of-speech categories and key semantic categories
and their role in text analysis. The first part of the paper addresses a set of issues relating to …

The UCREL semantic analysis system (USAS) is a software tool for undertaking the
automatic semantic analysis of English spoken and written data. This paper describes the …

Corpus Linguistics for Online Communication provides an instructive and practical guide to
conducting research using methods in corpus linguistics in studies of various forms of online …

Considered one of the most astonishing narrative achievements of the twentieth century
Modernist novel and Virginia Woolf's masterpiece, The Waves (1931) is perhaps her most …

This paper describes the application of semantic annotation software for analysing metaphor
in corpora of different genres. In particular, we outline three projects analysing RELIGION …

Digital Literary Studies presents a broad and varied picture of the promise and potential of
methods and approaches that are crucially dependent upon the digital nature of the literary …

In this paper we focus on automatic part-of-speech (POS) annotation, in the context of
historical English texts. Techniques that were originally developed for modern English have …

Recent studies have sought to understand individuals' motivations for terrorism through
terrorist material content. To date, these studies have not capitalised on automated …

To date, studies of social attitudes towards Scottish independence tend to have been of the
structured survey or interview variety. This study seeks to support and build upon the …

Sprachlicher Wettstreit zwischen kontroversen Positionen und unterschiedlichen
Geltungsansprüchen prägt Diskurse zu umstrittenen Themen und Wissensbeständen; …