Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: The text-feature-aggregation pipeline in variation studies -- Convergence between dialect varieties and dialect groups in the Dutch language area -- A comparison of statistical methods for the aggregation of regional linguistic variation -- Forests, trees, corpora, and dialect grammars -- Feature-based versus aggregate analyses of the DECTE corpus: Phonological and morphological variability in Tyneside English -- Complex systems in aggregated variation analyses -- A weakly supervised multivariate approach to the study of language variation -- Semantic weighting mechanisms in scalable lexical sociolectometry -- Temperature in the word space: Sense exploration of temperature expressions using word-space modelling -- The perfect map: Investigating the cross-linguistic distribution of TAME categories in a parallel corpus -- Explorations into variation across Slavic: Taking a bottom-up approach -- Where Alice fell into: Motion events from a parallel corpus -- Algorithmic typology and going from known to similar unknown categories within and across languages -- Inducing place distinctions of consonants from their distribution in words -- Laws of language and text in quantitative and synergetic linguistics -- Appendix -- Author index