Reading Concordances in the 21st Century (RC21)

What is RC21?

The Reading Concordances in the 21st Century (RC21) project focuses on developing tool-independent methodologies for reading concordances, advancing corpus linguistics by designing user-driven algorithms and exploring innovative applications of textual data analysis in the digital humanities. The project is supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) (grant references: AH/X002047/1 & AH/X002047/2) and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) (grant reference: 508235423).
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FlexiConc

One of the outcomes of the RC21 project is FlexiConc, a powerful and flexible Python library for concordance analysis. FlexiConc enables researchers to study concordances through customisable and combinable algorithms, allowing for the reproducible and flexible analysis of text corpora.
Key features of FlexiConc include:
  •  Flexible algorithms for sorting, ranking, partitioning and clustering concordance lines
  • Modular and adjustable analysis workflows
  • Analysis tree that tracks all algorithms
  • Integration with existing corpus tools

Resources

The RC21 Team


Stephanie Evert
Prof. Dr. Stephanie Evert
Principal Investigator

Michaela Mahlberg
Prof. Dr. Michaela Mahlberg
Principal Investigator

Nathan Dykes
Nathan Dykes, M.A.
Research Associate

Aleksandr Piperski
Dr. Aleksandr Piperski
Research Associate

Advisory board

Svenja Adolphs (University of Nottingham)

Laurence Anthony (Waseda University)

Andrew Hardie (Lancaster University)

Ulrich Heid (University of Hildesheim)

Susan Hunston (University of Birmingham)

Fotis Jannidis (University of  Würzburg)

Yukio Tono (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)



RC21 Blogposts

RC21 Blogs

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RC21 Events

RC21 Events

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RC21 Teaching Materials

Reading Concordances in the 21st Century