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Historical Text Mining
Programme and papers
Thursday 20 July 2006
| 10.00 |
Registration and coffee |
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| 10.20 |
Welcome and introductions |
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Morning Session: What's possible with modern data? |
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| 10.30 |
'"Historical Text Mining", Historical "Text Mining" and "Historical Text" Mining: Challenges and Opportunities' Robert Sanderson, University of Liverpool |
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| 11.00 |
'Introduction to GATE (General Architecture for Text Engineering)', Wim Peters, University of Sheffield |
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| 11.30 |
'Introduction to WordSmith' Mike Scott, Liverpool University |
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| 12.00 |
Tutorial: 'Corpus annotation and Wmatrix', Paul Rayson, Lancaster University |
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| 12.30 |
Lunch |
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Afternoon session: Problems re-applying such tools to historical data |
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| 13.30 |
'Search methods for documents in non-standard spelling', Thomas Pilz and Andrea Ernst-Gerlach, Universität Duisburg-Essen |
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| 14.00 |
'The Potential of the Historical Thesaurus of English', Christian Kay, University of Glasgow |
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| 14.30 |
Discussion |
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| 15.00 |
Coffee and tea break |
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| 15.30 |
'The CEEC corpora and their external databases', Samuli Kaislaniemi, University of Helsinki |
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| 15.50 |
'Exploring Speech-related Early Modern English Texts: Lexical Bundles Re-visited', Jonathan Culpeper, Lancaster University and Merja Kytö, Uppsala University |
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| 16.30 |
'Introducing Nora: a text-mining tool for literary scholars' Tom Horton, University of Virginia |
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| 17.00 |
Closing discussion |
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Friday 21 July 2006
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Morning Session: Possible solutions to the problems identified on day 1 |
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| 9.30 |
'Teaching a computer to read Shakespeare: the problem of spelling variation and Tutorial on the variant detector tool (VARD)', Dawn Archer, University of Central Lancashire and Paul Rayson, Lancaster University |
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| 10.15 |
The advantages of using relational databases for large historical corpora Mark Davies (Brigham Young University) |
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| 11.15 |
Coffee/tea break |
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| 11.30 |
Discussion |
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| 12.00 |
'Managing Momus: following the fortuna [sic] and frequency of a trope in Early English Books Online', Stephen Pumfrey, Lancaster University |
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| 12.15 |
'Digitisation of historical texts at ProQuest and ways of accessing variant word forms', Tristan Wilson, ProQuest Information and Learning |
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| 12.30 |
'Lessons learnt from transcribing and tagging the Newcastle Electronic Corpus
Tyneside English', Joan Beal, University of Sheffield and Nick Smith, Lancaster University |
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| 13.00 |
Lunch |
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| 13.30 |
Visit to the Rare Book Archive in Lancaster University Library to view the Hesketh Collection Participants who have registered in advance of the workshop will need to bring photo-ID. |
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Afternoon session: final round-up |
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| 14.00 |
Software demonstrations and small-group discussion |
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| 14.30 |
'Nineteenth Century Serials Edition Project', Suzanne Paylor, Jim Mussell, Birkbeck College |
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| 14.45 |
'LICHEN: The Linguistic and Cultural Heritage Electronic Network', Lisa Lena Opas-Hänninen, University of Oulu |
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| 15.00 |
Discussion: Software requirements |
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| 15.15 |
Coffee and tea break |
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| 15.45 |
Round-up discussion: where to next? |
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| 16.30 |
Close |
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