Reading Concordances in the 21st Century (RC21)
Towards an innovative, systematic approach to concordance analysis.
Project team: @michamahlberg.bsky.social @schtepf.bsky.social @nfdykes.bsky.social @apiperski.bsky.social
- Reposted by Reading Concordances in the 21st Century (RC21)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"
- 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
- Reposted by Reading Concordances in the 21st Century (RC21)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...
- Reposted by Reading Concordances in the 21st Century (RC21)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.
- Now @nfdykes.bsky.social is setting out to make connections between close & distant reading #DHSS2025 @rc21project.bsky.social
- Reposted by Reading Concordances in the 21st Century (RC21)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
- Reposted by Reading Concordances in the 21st Century (RC21)Now @nfdykes.bsky.social is setting out to make connections between close & distant reading #DHSS2025 @rc21project.bsky.social
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- 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
- Reposted by Reading Concordances in the 21st Century (RC21)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...
- Reposted by Reading Concordances in the 21st Century (RC21)🚨 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
- Reposted by Reading Concordances in the 21st Century (RC21)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! 👩💻
- 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
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- 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
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- 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
- Right after CL2025 #RC21 team we're about to head to CL2040 – time really does fly! www.ids-mannheim.de/digspra/pb-s...
- Reposted by Reading Concordances in the 21st Century (RC21)⏳ 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
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- Reposted by Reading Concordances in the 21st Century (RC21)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.
- In the first part of the "Reading concordances with algorithms" workshop, @schtepf.bsky.social introduces us to her favourite concordance ☕ #cl2025 #rc21
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- We're much looking forward to a busy #cl2025 for #RC21: workshop on Sunday and presentation on Thursday! (Let's skip the riots, though)
- Reposted by Reading Concordances in the 21st Century (RC21)📢 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
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- 👀 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
- #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
- 🗓️ 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.
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- 🗓️ New #DigitalHumanities Summer School in September! Pre-register now for #DHSS2025 #DataGenderSociety 👩💻 Free for incoming MA students in #DH at @fau.de!
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- 🎓🔍 Join our workshop "Reading Concordances with Algorithms" at #cl2025 📅 Register now - just a few more spots available! 🔗Info: go.fau.de/1bibg 🔗 Register: www.cl2025.co.uk/registration #rc21 #corpuslinguitsics #UniFAU #dh #linguistics
- Reposted by Reading Concordances in the 21st Century (RC21)We are looking for 2 (!!) full professors in #digitalhumanities - one with focus on #place&space and one in #HCI Interested? Here you find more detail 👇 www.fau.eu/people/worki... ⏰ application deadline 2 June @fauphil.bsky.social And here a picture of our beautiful @fau.de Schlossgarten 😀
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- Reposted by Reading Concordances in the 21st Century (RC21)Last week I attended the @rc21project.bsky.social symposium in the beautiful Kollegienhaus in Erlangen. I appreciated the focus on theoretical considerations around concordance analysis and the openness to discuss advantages and disadvantages in regards to ‘manual’ research. #RC21Symposium (1/2)
- Reposted by Reading Concordances in the 21st Century (RC21)Finally, the very last talk of #RC21symposium presented by @nfdykes.bsky.social and @michamahlberg.bsky.social uses neural embeddings to understand the functions of body part nouns in 19th c fiction. All via FlexiConc, of course.
- Reposted by Reading Concordances in the 21st Century (RC21)The final #RC21Symposium session by @nfdykes.bsky.social & @michamahlberg.bsky.social - wrapping up the 3-day event with a case study
- Reposted by Reading Concordances in the 21st Century (RC21)At #RC21symposium Marc Kupietz recounts the history of concordancing tools at @idsmannheim.bsky.social from Cosmas to KorAP.
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- Reposted by Reading Concordances in the 21st Century (RC21)Interesting that several #RC21Symposium speakers have suggested starting with qualitative concordance analysis, followed up by quantitative analysis, @anteangaeile.bsky.social and Valentin Werner @jlpopculture.bsky.social from his 2020 article fis.uni-bamberg.de/entities/pub...
- Reposted by Reading Concordances in the 21st Century (RC21)Now Valentin Werner is giving us a glimpse into the field of pop cultural linguistics @jlpopculture.bsky.social. Greatly enjoying myself in the last session of #RC21symposium
- Reposted by Reading Concordances in the 21st Century (RC21)Getting ready for the poster session (including 🥪 and ☕️) at #RC21symposium. But first we whet our appetites with lightning presentations!
- Reposted by Reading Concordances in the 21st Century (RC21)@anteangaeile.bsky.social now pits concordances against manual analysis at #RC21symposium – I assume that the angry birds are the concordance lines. 😅
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- Reposted by Reading Concordances in the 21st Century (RC21)The final day of #RC21symposium kicks off with Yukio Tono speaking on readability measures for concordance reading – hopefully soon to be implemented in FlexiConc! @rc21project.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Reading Concordances in the 21st Century (RC21)It’s a pleasure to listen to Susan Hunston present on identifying sequences of meaning related to her 2024 paper (which I actually happened to list as further reading for my discourse analysis students earlier this semester☺️) account.jcads.cardiffuniversitypress.org/index.php/uc... #RC21Symposium
- Reposted by Reading Concordances in the 21st Century (RC21)For the final talk of the day, Susan Hunston discusses the fascinating concept of construction collocations. #RC21symposium @rc21project.bsky.social @fau.de
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- Reposted by Reading Concordances in the 21st Century (RC21)Today on Day#2 of #RC21 more on our brand new #FlexiConc - and some of our participants already got it running 👏 All happening @fau.de @rc21project.bsky.social
- Reposted by Reading Concordances in the 21st Century (RC21)A bit late, but I’m currently in Erlangen, Germany, enjoying the first day of a @rc21project.bsky.social symposium. It was a great honor to open the event with a talk on AI integration with concordance methods, focusing on new #AntConc functions.
- Reposted by Reading Concordances in the 21st Century (RC21)At #RC21symposium, @apiperski.bsky.social and the amazing @schtepf.bsky.social 😅 are giving an introduction to the FlexiConc framework and Python implementation developed by @rc21project.bsky.social.
- Reposted by Reading Concordances in the 21st Century (RC21)Now on: @violawiegand.bsky.social showing her work on surveillance signs in linguistic landscapes. #RC21symposium
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- Reposted by Reading Concordances in the 21st Century (RC21)Now @nfdykes.bsky.social and Sasha Piperski are on with a hands-on session showing us how to use FlexiConc via the CLiC interface at clic-fiction.com! #RC21symposium @rc21project.bsky.social
