Exploring imagery in literary corpora with the Natural Language ToolKit
Brierley, C and Atwell, ES
(2009)
Exploring imagery in literary corpora with the Natural Language ToolKit.
In: Mahlberg, M, González-Díaz, V and Smith, C, (eds.)
Proceedings of CL2009 International Conference on Corpus Linguistics.
CL2009, 20-23 Jul 2009, University of Liverpool, UK.
Abstract
This paper presents a middle way for corpus linguists between use of “off-the-shelf” corpus analysis software and building tools from scratch, which presupposes competence in a general-purpose programming language. The Python Natural Language ToolKit (NLTK) offers a range of sophisticated natural language processing tools which we have applied to literary analysis, through case studies in Macbeth and Hamlet, with code snippets and experiments that can be replicated for research and research-led teaching with other literary texts.
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