Corpus philology: Using the Dictionary of Old English to get bigger data for Old English spelling variation

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11320%2F23%3A68SCJA97" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11320/23:68SCJA97 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://academic.oup.com/dsh/article/38/4/1508/7308409#428389407" target="_blank" >https://academic.oup.com/dsh/article/38/4/1508/7308409#428389407</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqad064" target="_blank" >10.1093/llc/fqad064</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Corpus philology: Using the Dictionary of Old English to get bigger data for Old English spelling variation

Original language description

"This article presents a methodology for obtaining large datasets for the spelling of individual phonological segments in Old English texts, based on searching the Dictionary of Old English Corpus for the attested spellings listed in the Dictionary of Old English A-H. It exemplifies this ‘corpus philology’ through a study of 216,526 spellings for words beginning with h followed by a vowel, using a variety of techniques to evaluate the methodology’s precision and recall, which are calculated as very high for <h->initial spellings (precision 100% precision, recall 92.1%) and moderate, but still usable, for <h->less spellings (precision 85.5%, recall 58.3%). Data for fourteen other segments related to the behaviour of h- in Old English is presented in the Supplementary Materials that complement the paper online. This dataset of 379,484 spellings from 2,605 Old English texts is shown to seriously problematize the findings of traditional philology, the conclusions of which are in contrast based on only a handful of spellings from a few texts, and to have the potential to radically enhance our understanding of the literary and linguistic histories of English."

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)

Project

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Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

"Digital Scholarship in the Humanities"

ISSN

2055-7671

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Volume of the periodical

38

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

14

Pages from-to

1508-1521

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