Linguistic DNA of Modern Western Thought:
Modelling concepts and semantic change in
English 1500–1800
Focd
Workshop on Computer-Assisted Language Processing
Friday 18th September 2015
University of Sussex, Jubilee Building, Room G22
Programme
Registration & coffee (9.00-9.30)
Session 1 (9.30-10.45)
Susan Fitzmaurice: Introduction to Linguistic DNA
Research Associates & HRI: Resources, progress, problems and queries
Discussion
Coffee break (10.45-11.15)
Session 2 (11.15-12.30)
Diana McCarthy (University of Cambridge): Inducing and contrasting
word meanings from different sources
Kathryn Allan (UCL): ‘Degrees of lexicalization’ in the Historical
Thesaurus of the OED
Discussion
Lunch (12.30-1.30)
Session 3 (1.30-3.15)
Gabriel Egan (De Montfort University): Instructive failures in authorship
attribution by shared phrases in large textual corpora
Dirk Geeraerts and Dirk Speelman (KU Leuven): Quantitative corpus
approaches to lexical and conceptual variation
Discussion
Coffee break (3.15-3.30)
Session 4 (3.30-5.00)
Panel discussion: Dawn Archer (Manchester Metropolitan University),
Scott Gibbens (Jisc Historical Texts), David Weir (University of Sussex),
Pip Willcox (Bodleian Libraries)
Close (5.00)
Please contact Justyna Robinson (School of English) [email protected] if
you are interested in attending the event