12.650, Books: Text Analysis

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Date:  Wed, 07 Mar 2001 13:55:07 -0500
From:  Stefan Vranka <SJV at OUP-USA.ORG>
Subject:  Text Analysis: Electronic Texts in the Humanities by S. Hockey

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Date:  Wed, 07 Mar 2001 13:55:07 -0500
From:  Stefan Vranka <SJV at OUP-USA.ORG>
Subject:  Text Analysis: Electronic Texts in the Humanities by S. Hockey

New from Oxford University Press:

Electronic Texts in the Humanities
Principles and Practice
SUSAN HOCKEY

This book introduces a range of tools and techniques for manipulating
and analysing electronic texts in the humanities. It shows how
electronic texts can be used for the literary analysis, linguistic
analysis, authorship attribution, and the preparation and publication
of electronic scholarly editions. It also assesses the ways in which
research in corpus and computational linguistics can feed into better
electronic tools for humanities research.

CONTENTS
List of Figures
1.  Why Electronic Texts?
2.  Creating and Acquiring Electronic Texts
3.  Text Encoding
4.  Concordance and Text Retrieval Programs
5.  Literary Analysis
6.  Linguistic Analysis
7.  Stylometry and Attribution Studies
8.  Textual Criticism and Electronic Editions
9.  Dictionaries and Lexical Databases
10. Where Next?
Bibliography
Index

Susan Hockey is Professor of Library and Information
Studies, University College London.

232 pp.; 9 line illus
$22.95 (01)
paper
0198711956
2001

$70.00 (06)
cloth
0198711948
2001

http://www.oup-usa.org/isbn/0198711956.html


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