Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Corpus-Based Research in the Humanities CRH-2

by Andrew U. Frank (editor)

This volume collects the proceedings of the second edition of the international workshop on "Corpus-based Research in the Humanities". CRH brings together those areas of Computational Linguistics and the Humanities that share an interest in the building, managing and analysis of text corpora. Research in the Humanities is predominantly text-based. For centuries scholars have studied documents such as historical manuscripts, literary works, legal contracts, diaries of important personalities, old tax records etc. Large amounts of such documents exist and are increasingly available in digital form. This has a potentially profound impact on how research is conducted in the Humanities. Digitized sources allow scholars to analyze texts quicker and more systematically. Digital data can also be (semi-)automatically important facts and interdependencies can be detected, complex statistics can be calculated. Analysis of locations and time in documents is often crucial to understand and visualize trends. Results can be visualize and presented to the scholars, who can then delve further into the data for verification and deeper analysis.

260 pages, Paperback

Published January 13, 2018