Tech Talk 3: The Making-Of the Inclusive Language Twitter Corpus

By Dr Diana Carter, Yarubi Diaz Colmenares (French, UWO), Bibiana Cortes (Data Science, UBCO), Lucas Quesada (UBCO).

Our Tech Talk focuses on the experience of collecting and analyzing a Twitter corpus to observe current uses of inclusive language in Spanish. Three points are addressed: (1) tweet collection through Netlytic.org software using a battery of descriptors and parameters; (2) automatic coding using Python scripts; and (3) manual coding of some of the variables. We present some of the challenges that we faced during the retrieval and analysis of the corpus data, as well as the benefits of using these digital tools in Digital Humanities Research.

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