The Digital Democracy Corpus: Comprehensive Proceedings of Four State Legislatures 2015-2018
Khosmood, Foaad; Dekhtyar, Alex; Ellwein, Sarah; White, Bella
California Polytechnic State University, United States of America
HTML XMLIn this paper, we present the details of the government transparency project Digital Democracy (Blakeslee 2015). We discuss two major contributions: First, a novel legislative informatics schema capturing entity relationships in the legislative proceedings, and second, the corpus of comprehensive state legislative proceedings (all speeches and remarks).
Set in Stone: Building a Monument from a DH Resource
Holmes, Martin
University of Victoria, Canada
During WW2, tens of thousands of Japanese Canadians were forcibly uprooted from the coastal regions of British Columbia and interned or relocated. Entire communities were obliterated, and possessions and assets were seized and sold. We are building a monument listing all of their names as a permanent in their memory.
Towards Automatic Alignment of Literary Orthographic Variants
Messner, Craig (1); Lippincott, Tom (2)
1: Johns Hopkins University; 2: Johns Hopkins University
We present a novel multiple-model approach for alinging orthovariant words found in literary texts to their modern, "standard" forms. We apply this methodology to a corpus of texts produced in the United States during the 19th century, and discuss this era's use of orthographic variance as a vehicle of meaning.