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project: Wa dictionary and internet database for minority languages of Burma
Grant Holder: Dr Justin Watkins
The SOAS Wa Dictionary Project is a three-year effort (2003-2006), funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Board to produce a high-quality dictionary, translating Wa into Chinese, Burmese/Myanmar and English. [read more]
project: Reconstructing the Quseiri Arabic Documents (RQAD)
Grant Holder: Professor Dionisius Agius
The research objective is to read or reconstruct the Arabic documents found at the harbour town of Quseir on the Egyptian Red Sea coast during the Ayyubid and Mamluk periods (13th-15th centuries)
ie:
a) to evaluate the texts combined with archeological enquiry;
b) to examine the content and context within the framework of the long distance trade and pilgrim traffic from Quesir as a chief port of the Red Sea region and its trade contacts with the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean.
c) to raise public and scholarly awareness about the significance of the documents as a source of academic, ed [read more]
project: The Online Froissart Project
Grant Holder: Professor PF Ainsworth
The Online Froissart is a joint project based in the French Departments of the Universities of Sheffield and Liverpool. It is delivering an interactive, searchable edition of Books I-III of Jean Froissart's Chronicles, the most important prose history in French of the Hundred Years' War, covering the years 1325-1390. [read more]
project: PARADISEC
Grant Holder:
PARADISEC (the Pacific And Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures) offers a facility for digital conservation and access for endangered materials from the Pacific region, defined broadly to include Oceania and East and Southeast Asia. Our research group has developed models to ensure that the archive can provide access to interested communities, and conforms with emerging international standards for digital archiving. We have established a framework for accessioning, cataloguing and digitising audio, text and visual material, and preserving digital copies. [read more]
project: The York-Toronto-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Old English Prose
Grant Holder: Professor Anthony Warner
The York-Toronto-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Old English Prose is a 1.5 million word electronic corpus of Old English prose texts which is annotated with the grammatical information necessary for extensive linguistic analysis. The corpus can be searched automatically for abstract grammatical structures (such as relative clauses, subject-verb inversion, expletive subjects, etc.), as well as (strings of) words, allowing quick and easy access to the data necessary to investigate virtually any aspect of the language of the period. [read more]
project: The Parsed Corpus of Early English Correspondence
Grant Holder: Dr Ann Taylor
The Parsed Corpus of Early English Correspondence is a syntactically-annotated version of 2.2 million words of the Corpus of Early English Correspondece (created by the Sociolinguistics and Language History project team at the Department of English, University of Helsinki). It includes 84 letter collections, consisting of 4790 letters dating from 1410 to 1695. The corpus is annotated with the grammatical and sociolinguistic information necessary for extensive (socio-)linguistic analysis. [read more]
project: Developing Archival Context Standards for Functions in the Higher Education Sector
Grant Holder: Mrs Lesley Richmond
The project is carrying out research into the potential impact of a functional approach to archival description. It is verifying new ways of accessing archival information by identifying and describing the functions and activities of Scottish Higher Education Institutions from the fifteenth century to the present day, flagging up relevant archival records held in Scottish Universities and Colleges. [read more]
project: The Anglo-Norman On-line Hub
Grant Holder: Professor Andrew Rothwell
Phase 1 of the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub project (2002-2004), funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Board under its Resource Enhancement Scheme, had the following aims and objectives:
to open up for on-line access significant resources that will advance research into the languages and society of medieval Britain and support university courses across a wide areas of medieval studies;
to develop, evaluate, deploy and propagate XML-based technologies that will be of service in many areas of Humanities computing worlwide. [read more]
project: French interlanguage oral corpora
Grant Holder: Professor Florence Myles
Unlike first language acquisition (L1) research, which has made use of digital technologies for over 20 years to assist its research (in the shape of a powerful suite of software tools for the transcription, analysis and storage of L1 oral learner data, the CHILDES system, now used as standard), the field of second language acquisition (L2) research has been very slow in taking advantage of the new computerised technologies now available.
This one-year project aimed to (1) apply and adapt the CHILDES tools to French L2 oral data, (2) to construct a database of French Learner Language Oral C [read more]
project: The Newton Manuscript Project
Grant Holder: Prof. Rob Iliffe
The Newton Manuscript Project began in January 2000 with a view to preparing 20 print volumes of Newton's non-scientific papers. Although we had stated in the initial application that that we would make the text of the proposed print edition available online, we quickly realised that the online environment now offered extraordinary and unrivalled possibilities for disseminating high quality scholarly output to a variety of audiences. Accordingly, we switched our primary focus to producing an electronic edition of Newton’s non-scientific papers. [read more]