Tag Archives: corpus linguistics
A close encounter with Richard III
By Dr Jane Demmen, Senior Research Associate Last month project Co-Investigator Andrew Hardie and I presented a paper at the Computational Methods for Literary-Historical Textual Scholarship conference at De Montfort University in Leicester (UK): a great event bringing together scholars … Continue reading
Is that a verb I see before me? Implementing grammatical category/part-of-speech tagging in the Shakespeare Corpus
Jane Demmen discusses the process of part-of-speech tagging the Shakespeare corpus, explores some of the issues the team encountered, and their subsequent solutions… One of the many software programs that enables us to carry out the task of creating an … Continue reading
Technology, Shakespeare, Linguistics…
Bernard Murphy offers an overview of some of the work being undertaken by Research Associate, Sean Murphy, on the project… “My brother Sean is working on post-doctoral research in linguistics, especially the use of language in Shakespeare’s plays. Which may … Continue reading
A methodological journey…
Principal Investigator, Jonathan Culpeper, shares his thoughts on why the methods used on the Encyclopaedia of Shakespeare’s Language project are quite so unique… Just before Christmas 2015, the AHRC announced that it was going to fund the £1 million Encyclopaedia … Continue reading