Examining language variation with stylometry

Materials for the participants of the workshop at the IQLA-GIAT summer school in Padua 2023.

After first lecture

You can experiment with using stylo on the corpus you downloaded, the functions are described in easy manual: https://computationalstylistics.github.io/stylo_nutshell/

Useful links

https://computationalstylistics.github.io/resources/

Text editors

• Notepad++ - easy-in-use editor tool, useful for changing formatting, allows for editing multiple files at the same time (Windows; there is a Linux clone named Notepadqq).
• Gedit (Linux and more)
• TextWrangler (MacOS)
• GrepWin - searching and replacing in multiple files at the same time.

Regular expressions aka regex (will come in handy when you use Gephi)

• Get regex skills doing crosswords! - by far the coolest way to learn regex.
• Regex sandbox - this is where you can test your regex.

Text analysis of concordances

• AntConc - a freeware tool for easy concordancing and text analysis.