30.2476, Disc: (Free webinar) The OED and Historical Text Collections: Discovering New Words

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LINGUIST List: Vol-30-2476. Tue Jun 18 2019. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 30.2476, Disc: (Free webinar) The OED and Historical Text Collections: Discovering New Words

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Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2019 21:33:37
From: Charlotte Crouch [charlotte.crouch at oup.com]
Subject: (Free webinar) The OED and Historical Text Collections: Discovering New Words

 
https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/726101385178437901 
https://public.oed.com/webinars-and-events/

Dr Tanja Säily, tenure-track assistant professor in English Language at the
University of Helsinki, and Dr Eetu Mäkelä, tenure-track assistant professor
in Human Sciences–Computing Interaction at the University of Helsinki, will be
presenting their research on neologism use in the Corpus of Early English
Correspondence and how the OED, as well as large historical text collections,
are semi-automatically consulted within the project.

Join Dr Säily and Dr Mäkelä for an overview of the project and also for a
discussion around the possibilities of using the OED in digital humanities
research in general.
 
This session will cover:
- An overview of the neologism research project, with examples of new
vocabulary and its social embedding in the Corpus of Early English
Correspondence
- Semi-automatic workflows for moving between the OED and historical text
collections 
- Building a pipeline from the corpus, through automated spelling
normalization, lemmatization, filtering, comparison, and analysis to results
- The barriers faced with regard to historical spelling variation, noise from
optical character recognition and material bias
- A discussion of the solutions applied, including statistical and neural
machine translation, look-ups against comparison corpora and user interfaces
for manual checking of results
- What the researchers wished they knew before they started 
- What the future looks like for this and other projects using the OED
- Q&A session – bring your questions or send them to the panellists in
advance: oed.uk at oup.com
 
Who is this session for?
- Researchers working in similar projects – using the OED or not
- Anyone interested in historical sociolinguistics, historical lexicology, or
historical lexicography
- People interested in the complexities of applying computational methods to
historical data



Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Computational Linguistics
                     Discourse Analysis
                     General Linguistics
                     Historical Linguistics
                     Language Acquisition
                     Language Documentation
                     Lexicography
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics



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