Electronic Texts in the Humanities P/B Edition

By Susan Hockey

Book Overview

This book introduces a range of tools and techniques for manipulating and analyzing electronic texts in the humanities. It shows how electronic texts can be used for the literary analysis, linguistic analysis, authorship attribution, and the preparation and publication of electronic scholarly editions. It also assesses the ways in which research in corpus and computational linguistics can feed into better electronic tools for humanities research.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198711956
• ISBN13: 9780198711957
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

for a humanities reader

Hockey has been involved in the use of computers for the humanities since the 1980s. This is her most recent book. It is directed towards a reader majoring in the humanities, who needs some guidance with computing. The book is brief, and summarises what can be done in terms of preparing manuscripts for journals, many of which nowadays offer and may actually prefer electronic submission. But Hockey also discusses how once papers have been put into electronic form, they can be analysed. At various levels of semantic/linguistic parsing. The computer science jargon is minimised, for which some readers should be grateful. The ideas are explained clearly.