EPICOL18 - An interactive corpus-interface to an 18th century epistolary novels corpus

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Epistolary Corpus of Long 18th Century Literature (EPICOL18) is now available with a corpus-interface programmed in Python and Dash that connects to a SQL Database of all texts.

This corpus comprises a collection of epistolary novels, published between the early 17th and 19th century. With this corpus-interface users can:

Conduct Advanced Regex Searches: Conduct precise, pattern-based searches across the corpus to uncover hidden linguistic patterns over all or selected texts.
Visualize Insights: Generate bar charts and word clouds to illustrate key trends within the corpus based on your search queries.
N-Gram Analysis: Create and explore recurring linguistic patterns by generating n-grams over selected texts.
Keyword-in-Context (KWIC): Investigate how specific words or phrases were used across texts, authors, and analyze timelines to uncover nuanced contexts and patterns.

Here are some first impressions:

Start page

Top words and Parts-of-Speech

Word Frequency and Visualization

Find N-Grams of sizes 2,3,4,5

Show Key Words in Context (KWIC)

Diachronic Frequency Visualization

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