"Big Data" in Medieval Studies I: Creating Corpora

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Digital Philology: A Journal of Medieval Cultures

Organizer Name

Susanna Allés-Torrent

Organizer Affiliation

Univ. of Miami

Presider Name

Albert Lloret

Presider Affiliation

Univ. of Massachusetts-Amherst

Paper Title 1

The Old Spanish Textual Archive: The Challenges of POS Tagging

Presenter 1 Name

Francisco Gago-Jover

Presenter 1 Affiliation

College of the Holy Cross

Paper Title 2

Germanic Corpora, Cross-Linguistic Research, and the Limits of Managing (Big) Data

Presenter 2 Name

Adam Oberlin

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Princeton Univ.

Paper Title 3

Neither "Big" nor "Data": Critical Reflections on the Digital Index of Late Medieval Song

Presenter 3 Name

William Watson

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Yale Univ.

Paper Title 4

The Chrysostomus Latinus in Iohannem Online Corpus and Digital Analysis of Latin Translations

Presenter 4 Name

Joel Kalvesmaki; Chris L. Nighman

Presenter 4 Affiliation

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection; Wilfrid Laurier Univ.

Start Date

9-5-2019 1:30 PM

Session Location

Bernhard 210

Description

The creation of digital collections of texts, or textual corpora, for research and preservation may be one of the seminal technological innovations in the digital humanities that still remains at the core of many text-oriented disciplines, including those belonging to medieval studies. When creating a textual corpus, digital humanists face many key choices that will determine their project’s success. These decisions include the selection of standards, format types, methods for text recollection, searchability, access, lemmatization, and interoperability, among others. Albert Lloret