Reading Concordances in the 21st Century (RC21)

Happening next week, August 4-8! 👩‍💻

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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

Also, by the time 2040 starts tomorrow evening, Bluesky will surely have an edit function so we can correct our typo in the initial post!

Thursday, July 10
💡 “Digital hermeneutics: Reading concordances with algorithms” presented by
@schtepf.bsky.social and @nfdykes.bsky.social

Friday, July 11:
🔑 Keynote by
@michamahlberg.bsky.social
„Corpus linguistics and storytelling: Data and connections“

Right after CL2025 #RC21 team we're about to head to CL2040 – time really does fly!

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⏳ Only 10 days left to sign up for our #DHSS25 Summer School!

Seize this unique chance to enhance your Digital Humanities skills and enjoy insightful discussions on the theme #DataGenderSociety ☀️

👉 Secure your spot now: go.fau.de/1c-ac

#FAU #DigitalHumanities

Big reveal 🥁
Here is the second keynote speaker for our #DHSS25 summer school (22 - 26 Sept 2025)

Prof. Mareike Schumacher
@mkschumacher.bsky.social will talk about

" #Corpus compilation and gender-sensitive analysis"

Join us @fau.de in September!

& don't forget to apply for a travel bursary

We‘ve kept the best for last at #cl2025: @nfdykes.bsky.social shows how our research in @rc21project.bsky.social enables analysts to read concordances at scale using FlexiConc and neural sentence embeddings.

Stephanie Evert standing next to a concordance of the word "coffee"

In the first part of the "Reading concordances with algorithms" workshop, @schtepf.bsky.social introduces us to her favourite concordance ☕
#cl2025 #rc21

Now that I finally caught a flight to BHX I’m looking forward to tomorrow’s #RC21 workshop at #cl2025. In addition to these two contributions, I will also be talking about bootstrapping, multivariate analysis, legal tech, and comparative discourse studies!

A screenshot of FlexiConc used through a web app. Concordance of "Birmingham" showing common n-grams in literary corpora. The results show that "at Birmingham" is preceded by terms like "outbreak" and "riot", while "to Birmingham" looks more positive.

We're much looking forward to a busy #cl2025 for #RC21: workshop on Sunday and presentation on Thursday!

(Let's skip the riots, though)

📢 The #ICAME46 conference begins today in Vilnius!

Great to see our department so well represented with contributions from Michaela Mahlberg, Nathan Dykes, Stephanie Evert, Alexander Piperski and Marianna Gracheva!

🔗Conference details: www.icame46.flf.vu.lt
#DigitalHumanities #DHSS #FAU

Looking forward to talking about #concordance reading - today at Uni #Tübingen
#Digitalhumanities

Screenshot of a KWICGrouped concordance of eyes in Dickens' novels on "his", "her", "fixed" and "glance" using FlexiConc in the web app CLiC. KWICGrouping ranks the results for "eyes" based on the number of specified search terms they contain. FlexiConc provides additional options to adjust the search criteria.

🗓️ Just over a week before #ICAME46 starts in Vilnius
💻 Catch our talk on June 18 to hear all about our latest extensions to KWICGrouping with FlexiConc
📚 Case study: body part nouns in 19th century English and German novels using CLiC

#RC21 #CorpusLinguistics #DigitalHumanities #concordances

Concordance Reading × Association Measures Author: Xinyao Lu, Friedrich-Alexander-Unviersität Erlangen-Nürnberg Published: 11 June 2025 How can we collect a dataset of German Support Verb Constructions (SVCs) from a reference corpus?

👀 new on the #RC21 blog:

🔢 Concordance Reading × Association Measures:
🌲 Methods to Organize a Dataset of German Support Verb Constructions
by Xinyao Lu

#CorpusLinguistics #syntax #grammar #DH #concordances

go.fau.de/1bigh

A screenshot from clic-fiction.com showing concordances of the bigram "education of" in several literary corpora.

#RC21 is one of several exciting projects at @dhssfau.bsky.social.

Our tools can show how 19th century English novels talk about education on clic-fiction.com.

To learn more, sign up for our MA programme in Digital Humanities - applications are open until July 15!

go.fau.de/1bige

@dhssfau.bsky.social

CLiC The CLiC Dickens project demonstrates through corpus stylistics how computer-assisted methods can be used to study literary texts and lead to new insights into how readers perceive fictional character...

Can't wait?

➡️ Here's an example of KWICGrouping "eyes" in Dickens' novels.

👀 Try different settings and let us know what you find!

clic-fiction.com/flexiconc?al...

Screenshot of a KWICGrouped concordance of eyes in Dickens' novels on "his", "her", "fixed" and "glance" using FlexiConc in the web app CLiC. KWICGrouping ranks the results for "eyes" based on the number of specified search terms they contain. FlexiConc provides additional options to adjust the search criteria.

🗓️ Just over a week before #ICAME46 starts in Vilnius
💻 Catch our talk on June 18 to hear all about our latest extensions to KWICGrouping with FlexiConc
📚 Case study: body part nouns in 19th century English and German novels using CLiC

#RC21 #CorpusLinguistics #DigitalHumanities #concordances

Happening tomorrow!
Corpus queries will also be at the centre of case study 2 in #RC21, where we explore how FlexiConc assists query development and exploration.

The theme of our first ever #DH Summer School @dhssfau.bsky.social is:

Data, Gender & Society
#DataGenderSociety

All happening @fau.de

🗓️ New #DigitalHumanities Summer School in September!
Pre-register now for #DHSS2025 #DataGenderSociety
👩‍💻 Free for incoming MA students in #DH at @fau.de!

I also outlined our ongoing work on #RC21:
🌲 the analysis tree - another visual technique - tracks all the analyst's steps as they apply different algorithms to identify patterns in concordance data.
Try it here:
📖 clic-fiction.com
and here:
💻 pypi.org/project/Flex...

🦋 @rc21project.bsky.social

Past Monday, I had a great time presenting at #ReproducibiliTea in the HumaniTeas in Cologne.
🔍 "Beyond the gold standard: Transparency in qualitative corpus analysis"
🔗 Slides: osf.io/zhvtd
🔗 Event series: ub.uni-koeln.de/kurse-beratu...

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