CHAPTER 6

TEXTUAL STRUCTURES

Recent advances in information storage and computational power have affected and largely facilitated the analysis of natural-language data. Large amounts of historical as well as contemporary documents are available in digital format, opening up new and powerful ways of examining literary data. Furthermore, online social interactions and conversations, mostly textual, are providing new data sources that, coupled with new research questions, are prompting understanding of social phenomena never before possible.

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