Analyzing Spoken and Written Discourse: A Role for Natural Language Processing Tools
Scott A. Crossley, Kristopher Kyle · Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks · 2018
This chapter provides a general overview of research methods used in the analysis of both spoken and written discourse. In addition, it provides a specific overview of how natural language processing (NLP) tools that measure lexical, syntactic, rhetorical, and cohesion features of text can be used to examine spoken and written discourse. The chapter provides an overview of how NLP tools have been used in previous studies of discourse, an introduction to freely available tools, an overview of the output produced by these tools, and statistical methods used to analyze and interpret the output produced from these tools.