Exploring Cities in Crime: Significant Concordance and Co-occurrence in Quantitative Literary Analysis
Janneke Rauscher, Leonard Swiezinski, Martin Johannes Riedl, Chris Biemann · TUbilio (Technical University of Darmstadt) · 2013
We present CoocViewer, a graphical analysis tool for the purpose of quantitative literary analysis, and demonstrate its use on a corpus of crime novels. The tool displays words, their significant co-occurrences, and contains a new visualization for significant concordances. Contexts of words and co-occurrences can be displayed. After reviewing previous research and current challenges in the newly emerging field of quantitative literary research, we demonstrate how CoocViewer allows comparative research on literary corpora in a project-specific study, and how we can confirm or enhance our hypotheses through quantitative literary analysis. 1