28.548, Calls: Old English, Middle English, Historical Ling, Text/Corpus Ling/Ireland

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Subject: 28.548, Calls: Old English, Middle English, Historical Ling, Text/Corpus Ling/Ireland

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Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 12:42:35
From: Mark Faulkner [faulknem at tcd.ie]
Subject: Medieval Big Data: the Present and Future of Medieval Text Archives

 
Full Title: Medieval Big Data: the Present and Future of Medieval Text Archives 
Short Title: Medieval Big Data 

Date: 27-Jun-2017 - 28-Jun-2017
Location: Dublin, Ireland 
Contact Person: Mark Faulkner
Meeting Email: faulknem at tcd.ie

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Subject Language(s): English, Middle (enm)
                     English, Old (ang)

Call Deadline: 26-Feb-2017 

Meeting Description:

The last thirty years have seen the production of numerous large archives of
medieval English texts, including the Dictionary of Old English Corpus (c. 3
million words), the York-Toronto-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Old English Prose
(c. 1.4 million words), the Manchester Eleventh Century Spellings Database (c.
300,000 words), the Linguistic Atlas of Early Middle English (c. 650,000
words) and the Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse (c. 5 million words).
Since each of these freestanding corpora was built for a different purpose,
there is minimal interoperability, and the user must learn separate user
interfaces and search protocols for each. Their extraordinary collective power
as a tool for cultural, historical, literary and linguistic analyses thus
remains to be exploited. Early publications using the materials produced by
the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership (EEBO-TCP) have shown
the revolutionary power of big data to reconfigure our understanding of the
early modern, print past. This colloquium seeks to catalyse a similarly
radical transformation in the possible methodologies for the study of the
medieval period, by encouraging collaboration to increase the use and utility
of existing text archives and setting a blueprint for their future
development. 


Call for Papers:

The colloquium will feature presentations from all the major text corpora of
medieval English. A small number of places have been reserved for other
contributors, and abstracts are now sought for 15-20 minute papers describing
methodologically innovative, current research using these or other medieval
text archives. Types of research particularly relevant to the aims of the
colloquium include:

- Research that spans multiple corpora that are non-congruent (e. g. parsed
and unparsed corpora, manuscript-focused and text-focused corpora, corpora of
texts in different languages)
- The use of text archives for purposes beyond which they were designed
- The use of text archives to address broader cultural, literary or historical
research questions

Abstracts of 250 words should be submitted to Mark Faulkner (faulknem at tcd.ie)
by the deadline (February 26 2017).




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