SAMUELS End of Project Meeting

Glasgow Updates:Thematic Categories

Updating of Manually Tagged TextsChanges to Historical Thesaurus Structure

Thematic Category Set

• Thematic categories developed to provide ‘Human scale’ categories– e.g. AQ03b Ghost/phantom

• Useful– for users finding search terms– as aggregation level for results of semantic tagging

Thematic Category Set

• Top layer corresponds to tier 2 categories– AA (The world) to BK (Leisure)

• Four further layers

• No HT subcategories listed (though contents not excluded by tagger)

Thematic Category Set

BK02d01 Party:

BK LeisureBK02 Social

eventBK02d Social

gatheringBK02d01 Party

Manually Tagged Texts

• Two excerpts from Hansard - 1820 and 2001• Two pieces of fiction (Charles Dickens and P.G.

Wodehouse)• Biography of Thomas Jefferson• History - Gibbon’s Decline and Fall• Journalism• Newspaper opinion column• [Email thread and conversation transcript]

Manually Tagged Texts

• Re-evaluation of manually tagged texts necessary– e.g. ‘unity’ in ‘the centre of public unity’

• 03.01.07.06-02 (society – dissent – concord)• 01.16.04.01.01.02 (relative properties – number – unity)

• ‘History’ most affected?– Metaphor/metonymy particularly problematic

• ‘immediate eye of the supreme power’• ‘the weight of a powerful empire’• ‘compete for the palm of eloquence’

Changes to Structure

• 01.02 Life now split into:–01.02 Life–01.03 Health and disease–01.04 People–01.05 Animals–01.06 Plants–01.07 Food and drink–01.08 Textiles and clothing

Changes to Structure

• Existence in space and time split

• Attention/judgement promoted to level 2

• Aesthetics included under Attention/judgement

Changes to Structure

• 02.06 Refusal/denial moved into 02.08.06 Statement

• Place taken by Goodness and badness– this moved from 02.01.15.07.08/09, part of

Attention, judgement

Changes to Structure

• Other minor changes

– 03.04.13 Law now 03.05

– 03.10.13 Trade and commerce now 03.12 Trade and finance