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TY - JOUR
T1 - Shakespeare and his contemporaries
T2 - Designing a genre classification scheme for Early English Books Online 1560-1640
AU - Murphy, Sean Edward
N1 - RI
PY - 2019/4/7
Y1 - 2019/4/7
N2 - The language of Early Modern texts can potentially reveal a lot about Shakespeare’s language. In this paper I describe the creation of a genre classification scheme for a segment of Early English Books Online - Text Creation Partnership (EEBO-TCP), covering the period 1560-1640. This categorisation permits meaningful comparison of the language of Shakespeare with that of his contemporaries and makes an integral contribution to The Encyclopaedia of Shakespeare’s Language project at Lancaster University. I outline the rationale behind the scheme, describe preliminary automatic genre classification work and present the prototype approach adopted for this categorisation. I also provide specific examples of classification in practice and discuss internal and external factors which influenced genre selection. I finish by suggesting how a range of scholars might benefit from this research.
AB - The language of Early Modern texts can potentially reveal a lot about Shakespeare’s language. In this paper I describe the creation of a genre classification scheme for a segment of Early English Books Online - Text Creation Partnership (EEBO-TCP), covering the period 1560-1640. This categorisation permits meaningful comparison of the language of Shakespeare with that of his contemporaries and makes an integral contribution to The Encyclopaedia of Shakespeare’s Language project at Lancaster University. I outline the rationale behind the scheme, describe preliminary automatic genre classification work and present the prototype approach adopted for this categorisation. I also provide specific examples of classification in practice and discuss internal and external factors which influenced genre selection. I finish by suggesting how a range of scholars might benefit from this research.
KW - Shakespeare
KW - genre
KW - domain
KW - style
KW - genre classification
KW - EEBO-TCP
U2 - doi.org/10.2478/icame-2019-0003
DO - doi.org/10.2478/icame-2019-0003
M3 - Journal article
SP - 59
EP - 82
JO - ICAME Journal
JF - ICAME Journal
SN - 1502-5462
ER -