Natural language processing and early-modern dirty data: applying IBM Languageware to the 1641 depositions.

This article provides an account of the steps involved in adapting IBM's Languageware natural language processing software to a large corpus of highly non-standard 17th century documents. It examines the challenges encountered as part of this process, and outlines the approach adopted to provide a r...

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Publicado en:	Literary & Linguistic Computing Vol. 27; no. 1; pp. 39 - 55
Autores principales:	Sweetnam, Mark S., Fennell, Barbara A.
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	Oxford University Press / USA Apr2012
Materias:	Electronic data processing IBM software Linguistic analysis Programming languages Natural language processing
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Sumario:	This article provides an account of the steps involved in adapting IBM's Languageware natural language processing software to a large corpus of highly non-standard 17th century documents. It examines the challenges encountered as part of this process, and outlines the approach adopted to provide a robust and reusable tool for the linguistic analysis of early modern source texts.