Reading Concordances in the 21st Century (RC21)

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Towards an innovative, systematic approach to concordance analysis. Project team: @michamahlberg.bsky.social @schtepf.bsky.social @nfdykes.bsky.social @apiperski.bsky.social

Screenshot of a concordance of "book" and "books" from a corpus of 19th century novels on CLiC. the lines are ranked by the number of words that end in ing, highlighting lines with multiple gerund forms, for instance: "looking at her instead of the book. She continued reading, or seeking for something to read. "
An analysis tree of the concordance for "Christmas" in CLiC's interface for FlexiConc showing three algorithms: partition by n-grams, partition by metadata attribute, KWIC grouper ranker
"The times they are a-changing: a mini-conference on temporal data in DH" programme schedule for a pre-conference event at DH2025
Stephanie Evert standing next to a concordance of the word "coffee"
A screenshot of FlexiConc used through a web app. Concordance of "Birmingham" showing common n-grams in literary corpora. The results show that "at Birmingham" is preceded by terms like "outbreak" and "riot", while "to Birmingham" looks more positive.
A screenshot from clic-fiction.com showing concordances of the bigram "education of" in several literary corpora.
Screenshot of a KWICGrouped concordance of eyes in Dickens' novels on "his", "her", "fixed" and "glance" using FlexiConc in the web app CLiC. KWICGrouping ranks the results for "eyes" based on the number of specified search terms they contain. FlexiConc provides additional options to adjust the search criteria.
A pink concordance highlighting the text "Reading Concordances in the 21st Century"
A presentation slide showing a concordance of the word afraid
Outside view of Kollegienhaus, a 19th century university building and our event venue
Hourglass about to run out
Outside view of Kollegienhaus, a 19th century sandstone building at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
Hourglass with only a small amount of sand left in the upper part
schematic image of a large crowd
A speaker icon
Calendar sheet showing the number 31
Outside view of Kollegienhaus, a 19th century sandstone building at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
Two stacks of printed posters advertising the Reading Concordances Symposium