Review of Statistics in Historical Linguistics Stephen Grimes

Structural Phylogeny in Historical Linguistics: Methodological Explorations Applied in Island Melanesia

Structuring Racist Ideologies in Stephen Crane’s “A Dark Brown Dog”: A Critical Discourse Analysis

This paper deals with the study of how racist ideologies are constructed in Crane’s “A Dark Brown Dog” using the CDA framework. Benefitting from the approaching between literature and linguistics, it focuses on the linguistic examination of the (re)construction of whiteness and blackness based on the assumption that racism is: a social, a discursive, and an ideological construct. This tri-dimen...

Word frequency and key word statistics in historical corpus linguistics

Parallel Aligned Treebank Corpora at LDC: Methodology, Annotation and Integration

The interest in syntactically-annotated data for improving machine translation quality has spurred the growing demand for parallel aligned treebank data. To meet this demand, the Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) has created large volume, multi-lingual and multi-level aligned treebank corpora by aligning and integrating existing treebank annotation resources. Such corpora are more useful when th...

Automatically analysing large texts in a GIS environment: The Registrar General’s reports and cholera in the nineteenth century

The aim of this article is to present new research showcasing how Geographic Information Systems in combination with Natural Language Processing and Corpus Linguistics methods can offer innovative venues of research to analyse large textual collections in the Humanities, and particularly, in historical research. Using as example parts of the collection of the Registrar General’s Reports that co...