An Introduction to Quantitative Text Analysis for Linguistics: Reproducible Research Using R
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Jerid Francom’s book An Introduction to Quantitative Text Analysis for Linguistics: Reproducible Research Using R is an essential textbook for researchers and students alike, who are exploring quantitative text analysis. This book is designed with beginners in mind, it emphasizes reproducible research, offering a structured approach to text analysis through the programming language R. Spanning five interconnected parts, beginning with foundational concepts like the Data-Information-Knowledge-Insight (DIKI) hierarchy, corpus creation, and data curation, advancing to topics like tokenization, dimensionality reduction, vector space modeling, and hypothesis testing with the {infer} package. This book contains practical exercises alongside detailed explanations that guide readers through the entire process of text analysis, starting from data acquisition to predictive modeling and statistical designs. Computational methods including readability measures, sentiment analysis, semantic modeling, and topic modeling are highlighted within this book, ensuring that readers are equipped to extract meaningful insights from linguistic data. Through the incorporation of Tidyverse tools and additional resources like GitHub repositories, Francom successfully bridges theoretical understanding with hands-on application. Transparency and reproducibility have been prioritized within the text, and meticulous data documentation and open-source methodologies have been meticulously advocated by the author. Although the book is an accessible resource for English-language data, readers might be challenged due to its focus on breadth over depth when their focus might be on seeking advanced exploration or on the other hand for those without basic programming experience. Regardless of this, Francom’s pedagogical approach combines clarity with practical guidance, making this book a valuable resource for students, researchers, and professionals who aim to integrate quantitative methods into their linguistic research.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.012 | 0.059 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.005 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.007 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.064 | 0.056 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".