First, share your corpora and research questions with each other.
Then, begin some experimentation using the clusters tool; find a cluster
that seems interesting, unusual, or distinctive. Consider what the clusters you
find are telling you about your corpus. Compare notes as a group.
Choose a cluster that seems particularly revealing about your corpus and look
at the individual terms from that cluster. Try each one as a separate query to
expand your understanding of the semantic field for that term in your corpus.
Share interesting results with your group and see what results you find by
trying each other’s queries.
Discuss:
- What differences in associated terms are evident among the different
corpora in the group?
- Are there terms that may have multiple spheres of meaning? Can you get
at these with addition or subtraction?
- Are there any findings at this stage? What have you learned about your
corpus (and its differences from the other corpora in the group)?
- If you were going to investigate this further, what would your next
steps be? Where does this inquiry feel like it might be headed?
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