Romer (2008) uses a Sinclairian approach to corpus analysis in order to identify positive and negative evaluations in texts such as book reviews: how can we find out quickly and reliably (and preferably automatically, by computer program) whether a reviewer thinks a book is worth bothering with?

For beſide the common way and road of reception by the root, there may be a refection and imbibition from without; For gentle ſhowrs refreſh plants, though they enter not their roots; …

Probably no other country could produce such a degraded type as the squireen or buckeen, the drunken, gambling, profligate descendant of the Cromwellian or Williamite settler.

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