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Lexical Searches for the Arts and Humanities
Jeremy Smith, Christian Kay, Simon Horobin
Department of English Language
University of Glasgow
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Project Aims
database of search words
dates of use
semantic categories
style
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Historical Thesaurus of English
• Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition
• Old English dictionaries
• 650,000 meanings
• detailed semantic taxonomy
http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/
sesll/englang/thesaur/homepage.htm
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Musical Instruments• piano 1803
• pianoforte 1767
• forte-piano 1769
• joanna 1846
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Interdisciplinarity
Art Clothing Drink Food
Health Kinship Law Music
Navigation Plants Weather
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Thesaurus of Old English
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Thesaurus of Old English
• 50,000 meanings
• MySQL database
• British Academy funding
http://libra.englang.arts.gla.ac.uk/oethesaurus/
http://www.oenewsletter.org/OEN/reports.php
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Complex Searches• find all words meaning ‘trumpet’• find all words meaning ‘trumpet’ recorded
between 1400 and 1850• find all words meaning ‘trumpet’ recorded
after 1700 in the USA
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Significance
• interdisciplinarity
• research enhancement
• fully electronic Historical Thesaurus
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Issues
Spelling
• piano* > pianoe, pianos, pianoes• OED ‘Trumpet’, also 4-6 trompette,- et,
trumpette, 5 trompett, troumpette,
6-7 trumpett; Sc. 5 trompat, troumpat(e, trumpate, 5-6 trumpat,
6 –ait