Reading Concordances in the 21st Century (RC21)

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...

This was really fun and a real honour to get to share my work on dementia representation on the Life & Language podcast, with @michamahlberg.bsky.social! @lancslinguistics.bsky.social @sosslancaster.bsky.social @lancasteruni.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...

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

We got step by step instructions on @github.com so you can try it all out! Feedback very welcome!

Try it out 👇

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...

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.

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.

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...

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.

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 ☺️

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

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

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...

🚨 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

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! 👩‍💻

Digital Humanities Summer School Waiting List now open!!! Sign up now! #DHSS #FAU #dhss25

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 😅

What a joy! Thank you for the invitation @gavinbrookes.bsky.social Join us in Lancaster! #CADS2026 @fau.de #MovingKnowledge

Continuing on the theme of an event-filled summer, #RC21 are excited to present tomorrow on how to analyse concordances to identify temporal trends in water-related political debates – and to hear all the other fantastic talks, of course! #dh2025

⏳ Only 10 days left to sign up for our #DHSS25 Summer School! Seize this unique chance to enhance your Digital Humanities skills and enjoy insightful discussions on the theme #DataGenderSociety ☀️ 👉 Secure your spot now: go.fau.de/1c-ac #FAU #DigitalHumanities

Big reveal 🥁 Here is the second keynote speaker for our #DHSS25 summer school (22 - 26 Sept 2025) Prof. Mareike Schumacher @mkschumacher.bsky.social will talk about " #Corpus compilation and gender-sensitive analysis" Join us @fau.de in September! & don't forget to apply for a travel bursary

We‘ve kept the best for last at #cl2025: @nfdykes.bsky.social shows how our research in @rc21project.bsky.social enables analysts to read concordances at scale using FlexiConc and neural sentence embeddings.

In the first part of the "Reading concordances with algorithms" workshop, @schtepf.bsky.social introduces us to her favourite concordance ☕ #cl2025 #rc21

Now that I finally caught a flight to BHX I’m looking forward to tomorrow’s #RC21 workshop at #cl2025. In addition to these two contributions, I will also be talking about bootstrapping, multivariate analysis, legal tech, and comparative discourse studies!

We're much looking forward to a busy #cl2025 for #RC21: workshop on Sunday and presentation on Thursday! (Let's skip the riots, though)

📢 The #ICAME46 conference begins today in Vilnius! Great to see our department so well represented with contributions from Michaela Mahlberg, Nathan Dykes, Stephanie Evert, Alexander Piperski and Marianna Gracheva! 🔗Conference details: www.icame46.flf.vu.lt #DigitalHumanities #DHSS #FAU

Looking forward to talking about #concordance reading - today at Uni #Tübingen #Digitalhumanities

🗓️ Just over a week before #ICAME46 starts in Vilnius 💻 Catch our talk on June 18 to hear all about our latest extensions to KWICGrouping with FlexiConc 📚 Case study: body part nouns in 19th century English and German novels using CLiC #RC21 #CorpusLinguistics #DigitalHumanities #concordances

👀 new on the #RC21 blog: 🔢 Concordance Reading × Association Measures: 🌲 Methods to Organize a Dataset of German Support Verb Constructions by Xinyao Lu #CorpusLinguistics #syntax #grammar #DH #concordances go.fau.de/1bigh

#RC21 is one of several exciting projects at @dhssfau.bsky.social. Our tools can show how 19th century English novels talk about education on clic-fiction.com. To learn more, sign up for our MA programme in Digital Humanities - applications are open until July 15! go.fau.de/1bige