Literary and Linguistic Computing
Journal Data
| Type | JOURNAL |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (GB) |
| ISSN | 0268-1145 / 1477-4615 |
| Scopus | 145586 |
| Wikidata | Q6647643 |
| OpenAlex | S84784070 |
| MAG | 84784070 |
| Website | http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/ |
| Total publications | 14 |
| Coverage period | 1988 - 2012 |
| Country | GB |
| Language | EN |
| Indexing | Scopus indexed |
| Cited by | 29 |
| SJR | 0.234 |
| SNIP | 1.445 |
| CiteScore | 1.6 |
| h-index | 3 |
This journal focuses on digital humanities, computational linguistics, and literary studies, exploring the application of computing to textual analysis. Its emphasis is on computational methods in humanities, placing it in a broader academic field with only occasional and indirect relevance to social anthropology
Advanced Text Analysis Techniques · Authorship Attribution and Profiling · Big Data and Digital Economy · Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies · Data Visualization and Analytics · Digital Games and Media · Digital Humanities and Scholarship · Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies · Human auditory perception and evaluation · Information Retrieval and Search Behavior
The Tesserae Project
Tesserae is a web-based tool for automatically detecting allusions in Latin poetry. Although still in the start-up phase, it already is capable of identifying significant numbers of known allusions, as well as similar numbers of allusions previously unnoticed by scholars. In this article, we use the tool to examine allusions to Vergil’s Aeneid in the first book of Lucan’s Civil War. Approximately 3,000 linguistic parallels returned by the program…
Transcription maximized; expense minimized? Crowdsourcing and editing The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham
This article discusses the crowdsourced manuscript transcription project Transcribe Bentham, and how it will impact upon long-established editorial practices at the Bentham Project, University College London, which is producing the new and authoritative edition of The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham. We site Transcribe Bentham in the burgeoning field of scholarly crowdsourcing projects, and, by detailing our experiences of running and administe…
Lexical bundles and German bibles
This article examines the use of lexical bundles—repeated word groups of dif-fering lengths—in two German Bible translations and analyzes their use in rela-tion to the comparative readability of the two texts. The texts included in this study are the four Gospels and the book of Acts in Martin Luther’s classic trans-lation of the Bible and the modern translation Hoffnung für alle (Hfa). The study is both quantitative and qualitative in nature, lo…
The Corpus of Contemporary American English as the first reliable monitor corpus of English
The Corpus of Contemporary American English is the first large, genre-balanced corpus of any language, which has been designed and constructed from the ground up as a ‘monitor corpus’, and which can be used to accurately track and study recent changes in the language. The 400 million words corpus is evenly divided between spoken, fiction, popular magazines, newspapers, and academic journals. Most importantly, the genre balance stays almost exactl…
Digital curiosities
Most memory institutions are now engaging with digitizing holdings to provide online access. Although, recent developments in technology have allowed users to create high quality digital resources out with institutional boundaries, little consideration has been given to the potential contribution that the general public can make to digitizing our cultural heritage. This article seeks to scope the growing trend of the creation of amateur online mu…
All the Way Through
This article describes the operation of two new tests of authorship and offers some results. Both tests rely on controlled contrasts of word-frequency and both exclude the very common words, which have been put to such good use in recent years. One test treats of words used with some consistency by a target-author but more sporadically by others. The second treats of words used sporadically by the target-author but not by most others. (The inclus…
Communities of Interest
Linguistics and musicology, along with other fieldwork-based disciplines, have obligations to facilitate access to research results by the communities whose cultural heritage is recorded and analysed, especially when the languages and musics in question are otherwise little documented, have few speakers or performers, and are threatened by the global dominance of English. This article presents the early results of our planning for establishment o…
Charles Brockden Brown
Journal Article Charles Brockden Brown: Quantitative Analysis and Literary Interpretation Get access Larry L. Stewart Larry L. Stewart Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Literary and Linguistic Computing, Volume 18, Issue 2, June 2003, Pages 129–138, https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/18.2.129 Published: 01 June 2003
The Electronic Beowulf and digital restoration
The Electronic Beowulf is a project edited by Professor Kevin S. Kiernan of the University of Kentucky which is creating an archive of digital images of primary evidence for the transmission of the text of Beowulf. This paper describes the nature of this evidence and the way in which digital imaging technology allows aspects of it to be recorded in a way which would not be feasible with conventional photographic technology. The use of digital tec…
The Metrometer
In this article, we present the ‘metrometer’, a computing tool, capable of identifying, in any kind of French text input, metrical components, that is syllables. The choice of the syllable is very natural: French poetry is known to be mainly syllabic. More specifically, our software performs a complete transcription of the input into the corresponding sequence of phonemes, using a transcribing module consistent with the specific phonology of clas…
Hubert de Phalèse's Method
Representativeness in Corpus Design
The present paper addresses a number of issues related to achieving ‘representativeness’ in linguistic corpus design, including: discussion of what it means to ‘represent’ a language, definition of the target population, stratified versus proportional sampling of a language, sampling within texts, and issues relating to the required sample size (number of texts) of a corpus. The paper distinguishes among various ways that linguistic features can …
Psyché—unexercise de style classique
The ballet comedy Psyché (1671) represents a real challenge for the methods of stylostatistics, since the play was written by four authors Pierre Corneille, Jean-Baptiste Lulli, Moliere and Philippe Quinault The various analyses refering to general vocabulary, distribution of occurrences within the text, vocabulary of the rhymes and sentence construction were meant to point out the characteristics in the style of each of these four authors Resear…
Literary Detection in the Erotokritos and The Sacrifice of Abraham
There still remain questions of authorship and date of a number of literary works of the Cretan Renaissance Rhyme is an important element of their composition, and a recent study of the rhyme of the play The Sacrifice of Abraham has already led to new understanding of the style of its author in this paper, analysis of the phonology and morphology of the rhyme of the romance Erotokritos provides additional data for comparison of the two works and …
Communities of Interest
Linguistics and musicology, along with other fieldwork-based disciplines, have obligations to facilitate access to research results by the communities whose cultural heritage is recorded and analysed, especially when the languages and musics in question are otherwise little documented, have few speakers or performers, and are threatened by the global dominance of English. This article presents the early results of our planning for establishment o…
All the Way Through
This article describes the operation of two new tests of authorship and offers some results. Both tests rely on controlled contrasts of word-frequency and both exclude the very common words, which have been put to such good use in recent years. One test treats of words used with some consistency by a target-author but more sporadically by others. The second treats of words used sporadically by the target-author but not by most others. (The inclus…
Transcription maximized; expense minimized? Crowdsourcing and editing The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham
This article discusses the crowdsourced manuscript transcription project Transcribe Bentham, and how it will impact upon long-established editorial practices at the Bentham Project, University College London, which is producing the new and authoritative edition of The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham. We site Transcribe Bentham in the burgeoning field of scholarly crowdsourcing projects, and, by detailing our experiences of running and administe…
The Tesserae Project
Tesserae is a web-based tool for automatically detecting allusions in Latin poetry. Although still in the start-up phase, it already is capable of identifying significant numbers of known allusions, as well as similar numbers of allusions previously unnoticed by scholars. In this article, we use the tool to examine allusions to Vergil’s Aeneid in the first book of Lucan’s Civil War. Approximately 3,000 linguistic parallels returned by the program…
Digital curiosities
Most memory institutions are now engaging with digitizing holdings to provide online access. Although, recent developments in technology have allowed users to create high quality digital resources out with institutional boundaries, little consideration has been given to the potential contribution that the general public can make to digitizing our cultural heritage. This article seeks to scope the growing trend of the creation of amateur online mu…
Psyché—unexercise de style classique
The ballet comedy Psyché (1671) represents a real challenge for the methods of stylostatistics, since the play was written by four authors Pierre Corneille, Jean-Baptiste Lulli, Moliere and Philippe Quinault The various analyses refering to general vocabulary, distribution of occurrences within the text, vocabulary of the rhymes and sentence construction were meant to point out the characteristics in the style of each of these four authors Resear…
Psyché—unexercise de style classique
The ballet comedy Psyché (1671) represents a real challenge for the methods of stylostatistics, since the play was written by four authors Pierre Corneille, Jean-Baptiste Lulli, Moliere and Philippe Quinault The various analyses refering to general vocabulary, distribution of occurrences within the text, vocabulary of the rhymes and sentence construction were meant to point out the characteristics in the style of each of these four authors Resear…
Literary Detection in the Erotokritos and The Sacrifice of Abraham
There still remain questions of authorship and date of a number of literary works of the Cretan Renaissance Rhyme is an important element of their composition, and a recent study of the rhyme of the play The Sacrifice of Abraham has already led to new understanding of the style of its author in this paper, analysis of the phonology and morphology of the rhyme of the romance Erotokritos provides additional data for comparison of the two works and …
Representativeness in Corpus Design
The present paper addresses a number of issues related to achieving ‘representativeness’ in linguistic corpus design, including: discussion of what it means to ‘represent’ a language, definition of the target population, stratified versus proportional sampling of a language, sampling within texts, and issues relating to the required sample size (number of texts) of a corpus. The paper distinguishes among various ways that linguistic features can …
Hubert de Phalèse's Method
The Metrometer
In this article, we present the ‘metrometer’, a computing tool, capable of identifying, in any kind of French text input, metrical components, that is syllables. The choice of the syllable is very natural: French poetry is known to be mainly syllabic. More specifically, our software performs a complete transcription of the input into the corresponding sequence of phonemes, using a transcribing module consistent with the specific phonology of clas…
The Electronic Beowulf and digital restoration
The Electronic Beowulf is a project edited by Professor Kevin S. Kiernan of the University of Kentucky which is creating an archive of digital images of primary evidence for the transmission of the text of Beowulf. This paper describes the nature of this evidence and the way in which digital imaging technology allows aspects of it to be recorded in a way which would not be feasible with conventional photographic technology. The use of digital tec…
Charles Brockden Brown
Journal Article Charles Brockden Brown: Quantitative Analysis and Literary Interpretation Get access Larry L. Stewart Larry L. Stewart Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Literary and Linguistic Computing, Volume 18, Issue 2, June 2003, Pages 129–138, https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/18.2.129 Published: 01 June 2003
Communities of Interest
Linguistics and musicology, along with other fieldwork-based disciplines, have obligations to facilitate access to research results by the communities whose cultural heritage is recorded and analysed, especially when the languages and musics in question are otherwise little documented, have few speakers or performers, and are threatened by the global dominance of English. This article presents the early results of our planning for establishment o…
All the Way Through
This article describes the operation of two new tests of authorship and offers some results. Both tests rely on controlled contrasts of word-frequency and both exclude the very common words, which have been put to such good use in recent years. One test treats of words used with some consistency by a target-author but more sporadically by others. The second treats of words used sporadically by the target-author but not by most others. (The inclus…
The Corpus of Contemporary American English as the first reliable monitor corpus of English
The Corpus of Contemporary American English is the first large, genre-balanced corpus of any language, which has been designed and constructed from the ground up as a ‘monitor corpus’, and which can be used to accurately track and study recent changes in the language. The 400 million words corpus is evenly divided between spoken, fiction, popular magazines, newspapers, and academic journals. Most importantly, the genre balance stays almost exactl…
Digital curiosities
Most memory institutions are now engaging with digitizing holdings to provide online access. Although, recent developments in technology have allowed users to create high quality digital resources out with institutional boundaries, little consideration has been given to the potential contribution that the general public can make to digitizing our cultural heritage. This article seeks to scope the growing trend of the creation of amateur online mu…
Lexical bundles and German bibles
This article examines the use of lexical bundles—repeated word groups of dif-fering lengths—in two German Bible translations and analyzes their use in rela-tion to the comparative readability of the two texts. The texts included in this study are the four Gospels and the book of Acts in Martin Luther’s classic trans-lation of the Bible and the modern translation Hoffnung für alle (Hfa). The study is both quantitative and qualitative in nature, lo…
The Tesserae Project
Tesserae is a web-based tool for automatically detecting allusions in Latin poetry. Although still in the start-up phase, it already is capable of identifying significant numbers of known allusions, as well as similar numbers of allusions previously unnoticed by scholars. In this article, we use the tool to examine allusions to Vergil’s Aeneid in the first book of Lucan’s Civil War. Approximately 3,000 linguistic parallels returned by the program…
Transcription maximized; expense minimized? Crowdsourcing and editing The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham
This article discusses the crowdsourced manuscript transcription project Transcribe Bentham, and how it will impact upon long-established editorial practices at the Bentham Project, University College London, which is producing the new and authoritative edition of The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham. We site Transcribe Bentham in the burgeoning field of scholarly crowdsourcing projects, and, by detailing our experiences of running and administe…