Workshops and Seminars

Text Mining for Historians Programme

12.00	Arrival and Lunch
13.00	Introduction: Ian Anderson (University of Glasgow)
13.15	Presentations
	Paul Rayson (University of Lancaster) on Corpus Annotation;
	Clare Llewellyn and Rob Sanderson (University of Liverpool) from the National Centre for Text Mining (NaCTeM);
14.45	Coffee break
15.15	Presentations
	Mark Greengrass (University of Sheffield) on the Armadillo project and Historical Data Mining;
	Christian Kay (University of Glasgow) on the Historical Thesaurus of English.
16.45	Discussion: The State of the Art
17.15	Close

9.00	Practical sessions 1
	Text Mining Tools: Wmatrix (Paul Rayson and Dawn Archer)
11.00	Coffee break
11.30	Text Mining Tools: Wmatrix
12.30	Lunch
13.30	Practical sessions 2
	Text Mining Tools: VARD (Paul Rayson and Dawn Archer)
15.00	Discussion: Text Mining in Historical Research: opportunities and drawbacks
16.00	End