I kind of expected this to say something about "married" being flipped between Jane Austen and George Elliot rather than just glossing over it and saying the results for both authors are substantially similar.
Also I wonder about the approach here. Austen's protagonists are generally female, right? So of course we're privy to more of their internal thoughts than the men.
I agree with your comment about Austen's female protagonists. The article's author appears to have assumed that because Austen writes in the third person, equal weight can be given to she/he bi-grams. But, a writer can still internalize when using the third person and that could explain the differences much more than the gender of the subject.
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[ 64.6 ms ] story [ 834 ms ] threadAlso I wonder about the approach here. Austen's protagonists are generally female, right? So of course we're privy to more of their internal thoughts than the men.
Julia and David Robinson's book Tidy Text Mining with R[1] has plenty more great text mining examples like this one.
[1] http://tidytextmining.com/