IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 1203: The Electronic Corpus of Anonymous Homilies in Old English: Discoveries and Challenges
Wednesday 8 July 2020, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Electronic Corpus of Homilies in Old English (ECHOE) Project, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen |
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| Organiser: | Winfried P. Rudolf, Seminar für Englische Philologie, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen |
| Moderator/Chair: | Thomas N. Hall, Department of English, University of Illinois, Chicago |
| Paper 1203-a | ECHOE and Its Scribal Profiles (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Old English, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Sermons and Preaching |
| Paper 1203-b | Building an Orthographically Indifferent Search Engine for Old English: Lessons from the ECHOE Project (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Old English, Sermons and Preaching, Technology |
| Paper 1203-c | Towards a Lemmatised Corpus of the Old English Homilies (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Old English, Sermons and Preaching, Technology |
| Abstract | This session will present the latest results of the ERC-funded project 'Electronic Corpus of Anonymous Homilies in Old English'. Aspects of the palaeographical markup of the corpus will be presented alongside some of the technological challenges related to the analytical tools of corpus analysis and the perspective of full linguistic tagging. The session further presents the latest discoveries in text-retrieval and source identification. |