Melita is a text annotation tool that uses Adaptive Information Extraction to identify text of relevance to user-defined scenarios. In the initial stages of use the user trains the tool to annotate sections of text, which are recorded as a set of rules. The rules may be revised and refined over time to improve accuracy and subsequently applied to similar texts. The application is now discontinued and has been replaced by AKTive Media.
Features:
• Adaptive Information Extraction
• Scenario-based annotation
A&H use case 1 description:
The Plebeian Lives project are using Melita to annotate primary source texts written by Londoners that describe relief for the poor, criminal justice, and medical care during the 18th century.
Publisher:
University of Sheffield
Creator:
Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield
A software application that enables a user to perform radiocarbon calibration and analysis of archaeological and environmental chronological information. It may be used to calculate the probable age ranges of scientifically dated samples through radiocarbon calibration, sapwood estimates and other methods. It is possible to establish age by measuring the rate of decay of the radioactive isotope 14C - a naturally occurring ubiquitous entity found in all life-forms.
Features:
radiocarbon calibration
archaeological and environmental chronological analysis
A&H use case 1 description:
The AHRB-funded 'Spatial and chronological patterns in the "Neolithisation" of Europe' project utilised OxCal to analyse economic and cultural items that had been identied as late Mesolithic or early Neolithic and apply a common standard for establishing the approximate date of their origins.
Creator:
Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit, University of Oxford
A software tool for performing concordance – the analysis of a set of words within its immediate context - on a body of text. The tool performs full concordance, reading and analysing each and every word in a text. It was initially written for the analysis of English texts, but has since been extended to cater for other Western languages. Limited support is also provided for text in East Asian scripts, such as Chinese and Korean.
Features:
Index and word list creation
Word frequency count
Word usage comparison
Keyword analysis
Phrase and idiom discovery
A&H use case 1 description:
The Historical Corpus of the Welsh Language 1500-1850 project used Concordance to analyse samples of Welsh text of different stylistic levels and varying geographic provenance that were created between 1500-1850.
MONK (Metadata Offer New Knowledge) is an online toolset created to assist humanities researchers with the discovery and analysis of patterns within a textual resource. It supports micro analyses of the verbal texture of an individual text and macro analyses of hundreds or thousands of text objects. Each text is converted to an TEI compliant schema using Abbot, normalised using Morphadorner with tokenization, sentence boundaries, standard spellings, parts of speech and lemmata and finally ingested using a Prior tool into a database that provides Java access methods for data extraction.
Features:
Micro analysis of verbal texture of an individual text
Macro analysis that allows the user to locate texts in the context of a larger document space consisting of thousands of other texts.
A&H use case 1 description:
The Text Creation Partnership (EEBO and ECCO) and ProQuest (Chadwyck-Healey Nineteenth-Century Fiction) are using MONK to analyse approximately 1000 works of British literature from the 16th through the 19th century. See MONK project web site for further information.
A&H use case 2 description:
The MONK project web site provides a sample collection of approximately 525 works of American literature from the 18th and 19th centuries, and 37 plays and 5 works of poetry by William Shakespeare for analysis. See MONK project web site for further information.
Publisher:
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, University of Alberta & University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Creator:
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, University of Alberta & University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The text upon an object is both evidence for and part of its form and
therefore its function; just as the construction and purpose of an
object gives context to and aids in the interpretation of text. Indeed,
the form of an object effects the placement and design of text and
decoration upon it. Non-verbal decorations drawn or painted on an object
fall somewhere between (2-D) text and (3-D) physical object: like the
text they are added by the scribe or artist, they have semantic (if not
verbal) connotation, and are often taken out of the material context of
Corpus Linguistics takes place every two years, and has become established as the biggest conference in the field, with the widest geographical participation and the widest scope of languages under in
