IMC 2003: Sessions
Session 206: The Paston Letters in XML: A New Style for the Electronic Medieval Text
Monday 14 July 2003, 14.15-15.45
Sponsor: | Japan Paston Letters Reading Group |
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Organiser: | Osamu Ohara, Department of English, Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo |
Moderator/Chair: | Keiko Ikegami, Seijo University, Tokyo |
Paper 206-a | Computer-Based Texts Reconsidered (Language: English) Index terms: Computing in Medieval Studies, Language and Literature - Middle English, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
Paper 206-b | Graphemic Features as Discourse Markers in the Paston Letters (Language: English) Index terms: Computing in Medieval Studies, Language and Literature - Middle English, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
Paper 206-c | Changing Verbal Inflection System in the Paston Letters (Language: English) Index terms: Computing in Medieval Studies, Language and Literature - Middle English |
Abstract | XML, in which we can freely decide the names of the tags according to our own purposes, has a very good chance of becoming a new type of format on which electronic medieval texts are made. In this session, Morita makes a general survey of various problems in editing texts and investigates what will be ideal electronic texts. Then Ohara and Sonoda, using two XML versions of the Paston Letters, carry out detailed investigations into some graphemic and morphological aspects of the letters, and demonstrate how effective the XML format is in making and using electronic medieval texts. |