This repository contains three notebooks to demonstrate the analysis of semantic networks based on word associations as part of the University of Padua 2021 workshop on Innovative Tools in the Study of Language. In addition it also contains an R package with datasets and helper functions to import, process and visualize network data. This is package is very much a beta version and will be revised for improved functionality and documentation.
Note that the SWOW data are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. They cannot be redistributed or used for commercial purposes. The full datasets can be obtained from the Small World of Words research page. The Small World of Words project is crowd-sourced project to map the lexicon in major world languages. If . If you find these data useful, please take a few minutes to participate and share the study (https://smallworldofwords.org).
To install the SWOW package locally, run RStudio:
install.packages('devtools')
library(devtools)
install_github('SimonDeDeyne/workshop')A copy of the workshop slides is also available.