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In this chapter, we leverage the rich metadata available in XML and the power of dplyr to explore the interaction of speakers in a classic drama.
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In his book Computation into Criticism, Burrows (1987) explores how the gender of characters in Jane Austen’s novels are marked by certain habits of speech.
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Since speeches_ns is a type of list, you can access the contents of the first node by entering speeches_ns[[1]] at the console prompt.
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If we omit the call to rowwise, we end up with the total word count of all words appearing in every row.
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When you run the code below you will get a warning that “Grouping rowwise data frame strips rowwise nature.” Warnings in R, unlike errors, mean that your code still ran successfully. The warning is there to tell you that something unexpected might have happened. In this case, we can ignore the warning.
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Burrows JF (1987) Computation into Criticism: A Study of Jane Austen’s Novels. Oxford University Press, Oxford
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L. Jockers, M., Thalken, R. (2020). Parsing and Analyzing Hamlet . In: Text Analysis with R. Quantitative Methods in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39643-5_13
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