Educational Videos#
These videos were produced by the Digital Discourse Lab to introduce the corpus linguistic methods behind the Swiss-AL tools. They are designed to work on their own — in a seminar, a workshop, or self-study — as well as alongside the tool documentation.
Reuse and attribution
All videos on this page are published under CC BY 4.0.
Suggested attribution:
ZHAW Digital Discourse Lab (2026). [Video title]. Swiss-AL Open Educational Resources. CC BY 4.0. https://swiss-al.zhaw.ch
Topic Modeling#
02:06 · German · Subtitles: English
What topic models are, what outputs they produce and how to understand the output.
Related documentation: Topics · Download the video
Keywords#
02:13 · German · Subtitles: English and German
How keyword analysis identifies terms that are unusually frequent in one corpus compared with another, and what the results can tell us.
Related documentation: Keywords · Download the video
Measuring Frequency and Distribution#
02:28 · German · Subtitles: English and German
Why raw frequency counts mislead when corpora differ in size, what words per million measure, and how to read distributions over time, source, and category.
Related documentation: Distribution of Words · Download the video
Grounded Theory#
04:23 · German · Subtitles: German
Brief introduction into the methodological approach of Grounded Theory and how it can be applied to corpus linguistic discourse analysis.
Theoretische Grundlagen der Modellierung#
03:20 · German · Subtitles: German
Why creating a corpus can be viewed as a form of modeling.
Prinzipien der Diskursanalyse#
05:15 · German · Subtitles: German
A brief introduction to the principles of discourse analysis as set out by Michel Foucault.
Credits
Concept and script: ZHAW Digital Discourse Lab, Frame Eleven· Narration: Matthias Fluor· Animation and editing: Frame Eleven