HiCor: A Cross-Disciplinary Network for History and Corpus Linguistics

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hicor

This network was funded from 2012 to 2014. 

The goal of the HiCor network was to establish a work group of corpus linguists, computational linguists, and historians aiming at studying how annotated corpora can be built from historical documents, and used to mine historical texts and investigate cognitive phenomena. Although history and corpus linguistics share many of the same goals and methodological concerns, so far there has been little dialogue between the two disciplines. The goal of HiCor was to bridge this cross-disciplinary gap through the following activities: publications informing historians of the potential that corpus linguistics represents, creating a webpage for the network, and organizing workshops and seminars.

To subscribe to the HiCor network mailing list, you could send a message to: hicor-subscribe@maillist.ox.ac.uk

Hicor logo designed by Svenn-Arve Myklebost.

Contact:

Barbara McGillivray

bmcgillivray@turing.ac.uk

Kerri Russell

kerri.russell@orinst.ox.ac.uk

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HiCor: A Cross-Disciplinary Network for History and Corpus Linguistics

 
 
 
HiCor Seminar (December 2013) 
Speaker: Dr Oyvind Eide (University of Passau), Text and map semiosis: The twain meet, but never merge. 
 
Analyse, Sort, Classify and Mark Up (February 2014) 
text encoding and its debt to historical dictionaries and word lists   
Speaker: 
Dr Julianne Nyhan (University College London) 
 
HiCor Seminar (May 2014) 
Barbara McGillivray (Oxford University Press), Methods in Latin Computational Linguistics (book launch) 
Dag Haug (University of Oslo), Exploring word order in historical corpora. 
 
HiCor Network (May 2014) 
Networking Event Held: This event gave the opportunity to meet others working on historical corpora and digital humanities research at Oxford. 
 
Shakespearean Hackfest (December 2014) 
What happens when people from different fields play with digitized versions of Shakespeare's works?   
Mixed groups of scholars from various disciplines reviewed the question to see what kind of research questions came out. A mix of Shakespearean scholars (and/or others working on literature), historians and linguists. 
 
From Text to Tech (July 2016) 
A Two Day Event Held: A series of workshops on 'From Text to Tech' - the basics for working computationally and quantitatively with texts.  
Why should you learn Python? - Gard Jenset 
Close versus distant reading and linguistic analysis in the Humanities - Gabor Toth 
Introduction to Corpora - Barbara McGillivray 
Corpus tools - Gabor Toth 
Introduction to programming in Python - Gard Jenset 
Basic natural language processing (NLP) with Python - Gard Jenset 
Going further with NLP in Python - Barbara McGillivray 
Corpus methods and social identity in historical texts - Heather Froelich 
Python and more NLTK - Gabor Toth 
Creativity is what we say it is: using corpus linguistics to identify key aspects of creativity - Anna Jordanous 
Extracting information from text - Barbara McGillivray 
Topic Modelling - Gard Jenset 
Corpora do what? On theory, method and data in Digital Humanities - Knut Melvær 
Conveners: Gard Jenset, Barbara McGillivray and Gabor Toth 
 
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