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
We are so delighted and proud to celebrate our colleague Nathan Dykes @nfdykes.bsky.social on successfully defending his PhD thesis today at the DHSS Department! 🎉 Here are a few smiles, photos, and highlights from this special day. Congratulations, Nathan—we wish you every success in the future! 🥂
📣 Job opportunity: We are looking for up to 5 outstanding postdoctoral or doctoral researchers in #DigitalHumanities to join us at the @textandlanguagelab.bsky.social Please share widely 🙏 ⏰ Deadline: 24 July 2026 For more info: www.fau-jobs.de/jobposting/6...
Wir freuen uns, dass unser Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter und Promovend Nathan Dykes (@nfdykes.bsky.social ), Teil des Text and Language Lab am DHSS FAU unter der Leitung von @michamahlberg.bsky.social , an der GAL Research School in Bayreuth (7.–9. Mai 2026) teilnimmt.
The CLiC web app has moved to clic-fiction.com as part of @dhssfau.bsky.social 's @textandlanguagelab.bsky.social! See the video for what CLiC can do -- new features inlude a German corpus and the FlexiConc tab! www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfEi...
One Click Changes Everything. A New Chapter Begins.
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We’re excited to share that our postdoctoral researcher @mariannagracheva.bsky.social , a member of the @textandlanguagelab.bsky.social led by @michamahlberg.bsky.social , will be presenting at the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) 2026 Conference in Chicago (March 21–24).
New entry in the Int. Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics with @jtauber.com: Regular Expressions for Corpus Queries. We introduce regex with actual corpus linguistics examples instead of making everything look like \]\[ Happy to send anyone a copy! doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-95504-1.01539-8
![Graphical abstract for "Regular Expressions for Corpus Queries" (Dykes & Tauber, 2026). Title: "Translating linguistic patterns into corpus queries."
A table demonstrates how a linguistic research question: "Which actions are explained in terms of someone's underlying reasons?", is translated into a CQL query.
Colour coding links linguistic patterns (red), query syntax (grey/bold), and corpus results (red italics).
The top row shows the linguistic pattern components: possessive, optional adjective or adverb, reason-word, linker, and verb.
The middle row shows the corresponding CQL query: [pos="POSS"] [pos="ADJ|ADV"]? "reason|rationale" "for|to" [pos="V"].
The bottom three rows show example corpus results: "my reason for asking," "her only rationale to go," and "their main reason to pivot."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7zfw7izsoitrzto6p6fenuey/bafkreidehnxt6tfvjpvyddz73dmj2dhzetongroduf3xbxjwxek6zxxwvm)
We got step by step instructions on @github.com so you can try it all out! Feedback very welcome!
Reading Concordances in the 21st Century (RC21)@rc21project.bsky.social · 5mo agoFlexiConc is now available on www.clic-fiction.com. Cluster concordance lines, partition by metadata, filter by POS tag or regex, and everything you do builds into an analysis tree you can retrace and share. We walk through all of it with body part nouns in 19C fiction. github.com/reading-conc...
Try it out 👇
Reading Concordances in the 21st Century (RC21)@rc21project.bsky.social · 5mo agoFlexiConc is now available on www.clic-fiction.com. Cluster concordance lines, partition by metadata, filter by POS tag or regex, and everything you do builds into an analysis tree you can retrace and share. We walk through all of it with body part nouns in 19C fiction. github.com/reading-conc...
FlexiConc is now available on www.clic-fiction.com. Cluster concordance lines, partition by metadata, filter by POS tag or regex, and everything you do builds into an analysis tree you can retrace and share. We walk through all of it with body part nouns in 19C fiction. github.com/reading-conc...
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A big part of #RC21 has been fiction. In our new blog post, we use Flexiconc to examine "eyes" in the nonfiction sections of the #BNC. #corpuslinguistics #academicdiscourse www.dhss.phil.fau.eu/2026/03/09/a...
All eyes on eyes: Using FlexiConc to find patterns in concordances
Authors: RC21 team (Nathan Dykes, Stephanie Evert, Michaela Mahlberg, Alexander Piperski) Published: 09 March 2026 Making sense of a large concordance is a challenging analytical task.
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For today's World Book Day, @textandlanguagelab.bsky.social are giving you a taste of all the books to explore on www.clic-ficiton.com. Using the FlexiConc tab developed by RC21 gives you even more options to see how books were described in 19th century literature.
Text and Language Lab@textandlanguagelab.bsky.social · 5mo ago📚 World Book Day in the UK is special with CLiC We celebrate with you by inviting you to explore and read some of the most famous novels in the English literary canon with CLiC, which you can access freely at clic-fiction.com. #WorldBookDay #DigitalHumanities #Clic #CorpusLinguistics 📖
For today's World Book Day, @textandlanguagelab.bsky.social are giving you a taste of all the books to explore on www.clic-ficiton.com. Using the FlexiConc tab developed by RC21 gives you even more options to see how books were described in 19th century literature.
Text and Language Lab@textandlanguagelab.bsky.social · 5mo ago📚 World Book Day in the UK is special with CLiC We celebrate with you by inviting you to explore and read some of the most famous novels in the English literary canon with CLiC, which you can access freely at clic-fiction.com. #WorldBookDay #DigitalHumanities #Clic #CorpusLinguistics 📖
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
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...
Text and Language - Logo Reveal
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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.
Prof Michaela Mahlberg@michamahlberg.bsky.social · 11mo agoNow @nfdykes.bsky.social is setting out to make connections between close & distant reading #DHSS2025 @rc21project.bsky.social
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
Now @nfdykes.bsky.social is setting out to make connections between close & distant reading #DHSS2025 @rc21project.bsky.social
May be of interest of attendees at the #RC21symposium by @rc21project.bsky.social, where Susan gave a wonderful talk on a very related topic back in spring ☺️
Viola Wiegand@violawiegand.bsky.social · 11mo agoJust discovered that Susan Hunston's new book "Pattern, Construction, System: A Unified Approach to Grammar and Lexis" is out in OPEN ACCESS! 🤩 www.cambridge.org/core/books/p... #corpuslinguistics #appliedlinguistics #linguistics #patterngrammar
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
Digital Humanities Summer School 2025: Data, gender and society
If you are attending the FAU Innovation Days (view details), you have the opportunity to register for the keynote talks. Mo 22 – Fri 26 September 2025 The DHSS2025 summer school offers expert-led…
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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
Program
Conference on Natural Language Processing
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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...
Program
Conference on Natural Language Processing
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🚨 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
Call for Papers – Corpora & Discourse International Conference 2026
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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! 👩💻
Reading Concordances in the 21st Century (RC21)@rc21project.bsky.social · last yr.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
Thanks to everyone who joined us at the Digital Humanities Conference 2025 in Lisbon 🤩 Big thanks to the amazing organizers @adho-org.bsky.social, and special appreciation to @sabinelang.bsky.social, @anastasiaglawion.bsky.social , Dominik Kremer, and @nfdykes.bsky.social for representing DHSS!
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
I'm presenting the results of my PhD this afternoon – feel free to join us if you're interested in discourse analysis, research methodology, or wondering what I've been doing all these years 😅
DHSS FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg@dhssfau.bsky.social · last yr.📣 Upcoming Talk! Join us for a talk by @nfdykes.bsky.social : 🗓 Wednesday, 23 July 2025 🕓 16:15–17:45 📍 Bismarckstr. 12, Room 0.320 💻 or online via Zoom: 🔗 fau.zoom-x.de/j/9234348284... 🎙 Topic: A methodological framework for corpus-based discourse analysis
