The CLiC web app has moved to clic-fiction.com as part of @dhssfau.bsky.social 's @textandlanguagelab.bsky.social! See the video for what CLiC can do -- new features inlude a German corpus and the FlexiConc tab!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfEi...
We’re excited to share that our postdoctoral researcher @mariannagracheva.bsky.social , a member of the @textandlanguagelab.bsky.social led by @michamahlberg.bsky.social , will be presenting at the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) 2026 Conference in Chicago (March 21–24).
![Graphical abstract for "Regular Expressions for Corpus Queries" (Dykes & Tauber, 2026). Title: "Translating linguistic patterns into corpus queries."
A table demonstrates how a linguistic research question: "Which actions are explained in terms of someone's underlying reasons?", is translated into a CQL query.
Colour coding links linguistic patterns (red), query syntax (grey/bold), and corpus results (red italics).
The top row shows the linguistic pattern components: possessive, optional adjective or adverb, reason-word, linker, and verb.
The middle row shows the corresponding CQL query: [pos="POSS"] [pos="ADJ|ADV"]? "reason|rationale" "for|to" [pos="V"].
The bottom three rows show example corpus results: "my reason for asking," "her only rationale to go," and "their main reason to pivot."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7zfw7izsoitrzto6p6fenuey/bafkreidehnxt6tfvjpvyddz73dmj2dhzetongroduf3xbxjwxek6zxxwvm)
Graphical abstract for "Regular Expressions for Corpus Queries" (Dykes & Tauber, 2026). Title: "Translating linguistic patterns into corpus queries." A table demonstrates how a linguistic research question: "Which actions are explained in terms of someone's underlying reasons?", is translated into a CQL query. Colour coding links linguistic patterns (red), query syntax (grey/bold), and corpus results (red italics). The top row shows the linguistic pattern components: possessive, optional adjective or adverb, reason-word, linker, and verb. The middle row shows the corresponding CQL query: [pos="POSS"] [pos="ADJ|ADV"]? "reason|rationale" "for|to" [pos="V"]. The bottom three rows show example corpus results: "my reason for asking," "her only rationale to go," and "their main reason to pivot."
New entry in the Int. Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics with @jtauber.com:
Regular Expressions for Corpus Queries.
We introduce regex with actual corpus linguistics examples instead of making everything look like \]\[
Happy to send anyone a copy!
doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-95504-1.01539-8
We got step by step instructions on @github.com so you can try it all out!
Feedback very welcome!
Try it out 👇
FlexiConc is now available on www.clic-fiction.com.
Cluster concordance lines, partition by metadata, filter by POS tag or regex, and everything you do builds into an analysis tree you can retrace and share.
We walk through all of it with body part nouns in 19C fiction.
github.com/reading-conc...
A big part of #RC21 has been fiction. In our new blog post, we use Flexiconc to examine "eyes" in the nonfiction sections of the #BNC.
#corpuslinguistics #academicdiscourse
www.dhss.phil.fau.eu/2026/03/09/a...
For today's World Book Day, @textandlanguagelab.bsky.social are giving you a taste of all the books to explore on www.clic-ficiton.com.
Using the FlexiConc tab developed by RC21 gives you even more options to see how books were described in 19th century literature.
For today's World Book Day, @textandlanguagelab.bsky.social are giving you a taste of all the books to explore on www.clic-ficiton.com.
Using the FlexiConc tab developed by RC21 gives you even more options to see how books were described in 19th century literature.
Looking forward to #cads2026 with two presentations:
📚 "Body, movement and sensation in fanfiction on Jane Austen" with @anastasiaglawion.bsky.social & @michamahlberg.bsky.social
🏛️ "A Multivariate Analysis of Quotation in German Parliamentary Debates"
An analysis tree of the concordance for "Christmas" in CLiC's interface for FlexiConc showing three algorithms: partition by n-grams, partition by metadata attribute, KWIC grouper ranker
Merry Christmas from the RC21 team!
Stay tuned for updates in the first few months of the new year. In the meantime, our analysis tree offers a reusable and environmentally friendly literary alternative to the biological version.
clic-fiction.com/flexiconc
The Text and Language Research Group, led by @michamahlberg.bsky.social, has just revealed its newly designed in-house logo! Created to reflect our identity in the DH, @dhssfau.bsky.social
More about the design in the description of our one-minute reveal film.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ol8q...
CliC, CliC, CliC...📚🖥
Participants learned a great deal by using a powerful digital tool like Clic to analyze #gender in #19th-century #fiction with concordance analysis, all run by Dr. Nathan Dykes @nfdykes.bsky.social.
#DHSS2025 #DigitialHumanities #FAU
#CliC
We wouldn't want to pick favourites among #RC21 workshops, but if we did, the #DHSS2025 participants would be tough to beat.
It was great to see such lively discussions during a hands-on concordance analysis exercise that didn't need anything more than a PDF reader.
Eight now in our Summer School on Data, Gender and Society @nfdykes.bsky.social is introducing hands on examples of concordance analysis with flexiconc.
#DHSS2025
Now @nfdykes.bsky.social is setting out to make connections between close & distant reading
#DHSS2025
@rc21project.bsky.social
May be of interest of attendees at the #RC21symposium by
@rc21project.bsky.social, where Susan gave a wonderful talk on a very related topic back in spring ☺️
How can concordances help us study gender in 19th-century fiction?
In just a couple of weeks, @nfdykes.bsky.social represents #RC21 at #DHSS2025 to explore with participants how FlexiConc contributes to #DataGenderSociety!
go.fau.de/1cadb
If you're attending Konvens 2025 at Hildesheim, don't miss our tutorial on Reading Concordances with Algorithms tomorrow, where we talk about our mathematical framework and given some background on the FlexiConc library. konvens-2025.hs-hannover.de/program/#fle... @rc21project.bsky.social
The next #RC21 workshop is just around the corner: "FlexiConc: Reading Concordances with algorithms" on Tuesday, September 9 as part of #KONVENS2025 in Hildesheim. We hope to meet many of you there!
🔗 konvens-2025.hs-hannover.de/program/#fle...
🚨 Call for Papers! 🚨 we are excited to launch the Call for Papers for the Corpora and Discourse International Conference 2026. Deadline 16 November 2025. Submit your abstracts here: wp.lancs.ac.uk/cad-2026/cal.... Please share widely! #CADS2026
If you're currently at #CMC2025 (listening to Stephanie's keynote), do check out the talk later this afternoon by Andreas Blombach, Stephanie Evert, Linda Havenstein & Philipp Heinrich:
"Dimensions of Drivel in German Telegram Posts: Manual Annotation and Predictive Power"
On day 3 of our Reading Concordances course at #ESSLLI2025, @michamahlberg.bsky.social is ready to go hands-on with FlexiConc in CLiC. Teaching materials available soon at github.com/reading-conc... CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Happening next week, August 4-8! 👩💻
Thanks to everyone who joined us at the Digital Humanities Conference 2025 in Lisbon 🤩
Big thanks to the amazing organizers @adho-org.bsky.social, and special appreciation to @sabinelang.bsky.social, @anastasiaglawion.bsky.social , Dominik Kremer, and @nfdykes.bsky.social for representing DHSS!
After the most recent #RC21 talk at #DH2025, the next workshop is already coming up in a couple of weeks: "Reading Concordances: A Training Course in Key Corpus Linguistics Methodology" taught by @schtepf.bsky.social and @michamahlberg.bsky.social as part of #ESSLLI2025!
🔗 go.fau.de/1c-eh
I'm presenting the results of my PhD this afternoon – feel free to join us if you're interested in discourse analysis, research methodology, or wondering what I've been doing all these years 😅
What a joy! Thank you for the invitation @gavinbrookes.bsky.social
Join us in Lancaster!
#CADS2026
@fau.de #MovingKnowledge
"The times they are a-changing: a mini-conference on temporal data in DH" programme schedule for a pre-conference event at DH2025
Continuing on the theme of an event-filled summer, #RC21 are excited to present tomorrow on how to analyse concordances to identify temporal trends in water-related political debates – and to hear all the other fantastic talks, of course!
#dh2025
