Beavan, D;
(2012)
DiaView: visualise cultural change in diachronic corpora.
In: Meister, JC, (ed.)
Digital Humanities 2012 Conference Abstracts.
(pp. 107 - 108).
Hamburg University Press: Hamburg, Germany.
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Abstract
This paper will introduce and demonstrate DiaView1, a new tool to investigate and visualise word usage in diachronic corpora. DiaView highlights cultural change over time by exposing salient lexical items from each decade or year, and providing them to the user in an effortless visualisation. This is made possible by examining large quantities of diachronic textual data, in this case the Google Books corpus (Michel et al., 2010) of one million English books. This paper will introduce the methods and technologies at its core, perform a demonstration of the tool and discuss further possibilities.
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
|---|---|
| Title: | DiaView: visualise cultural change in diachronic corpora |
| Event: | Digital Humanities 2012 |
| Location: | Hamburg, Germany |
| Dates: | 2012-07-16 - 2012-07-22 |
| ISBN-13: | 978-3-937816-99-9 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | http://www.dh2012.uni-hamburg.de/wp-content/upload... |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2012 Hamburg University Press |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1404370 |
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