Reinventing concordance reading: New methods and tools for qualitative corpus analysis in Digital Humanities
Evert, Stephanie (2); Finlayson, Natalie Eloise (1); Mahlberg, Michaela (1); Piperski, Alexander (2)
1: University of Birmingham, United Kingdom; 2: Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
With reference to an extensive review of literature in corpus-assisted discourse studies and literary stylistics, we take stock of current approaches to organising and interpreting concordances. We discuss how these can shape innovative algorithmic techniques that better serve the needs of the DH community, and present FlexiConc, an open-source concordance management tool developed in line with our observations.
Slow, Painful and Expensive: Current Challenges in Corpus Construction
Warner, Matt (1); Nomura, Nichole (1); Thong, Carmen (1); Keener, Alix (1); Sherman, Alexander (1); Keane, Gabi (1); Kurzynski, Maciej (2); Algee-Hewitt, Mark (1)
1: Stanford University, United States of America; 2: Lingnan University, Hong Kong, New Territories, HK
HTML XMLThe recent TDM exemption to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act in the US decriminalizes extracting text protected by Digital Rights Management (DRM) to build responsible corpora for research. This paper documents our attempt to build a corpus of in-copyright literary theory texts and discovery that building such a corpus remains near-impossible.
Completing the Frankenstein Variorum: Bridging digital resources and sharing the theory of edition
Beshero-Bondar, Elisa Eileen (1); Viglianti, Raffaele (2); Jin, Yuying (1)
1: Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, United States of America; 2: University of Maryland, United States of America
We have completed development of the Frankenstein Variorum digital edition and plan to launch version 1.0 at the DH2024 conference. We will discuss how our theory of edition and collation data are openly displayed in the edition's interface, and the vital contributions of students at every stage of development.