Plotting collocation networks with R: 'hoard' vs. 'stockpile' in the Coronavirus Corpus

This post is a follow-up to the previous one on graph theory and corpus linguistics. I show how to plot a graph of collocation networks with R and the igraph package. The case study focuses on the nominal collocates of two near-synonymous verbs in the brand new Coronavirus Corpus: hoard and stockpile. Graphs are linguistically relevant A graph consists of vertices (nodes) and edges (links). In Fig. 1a, each circle is a node and each line is an edge. Each edge denotes a relationship betwee..