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Lexical Searches for the Arts and Humanities. Jeremy Smith, Christian Kay, Simon Horobin Department of English Language University of Glasgow. Project Aims. database of search words dates of use semantic categories style. Historical Thesaurus of English.
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Lexical Searches for the Arts and Humanities Jeremy Smith, Christian Kay, Simon Horobin Department of English Language University of Glasgow
Project Aims database of search words dates of use semantic categories style
Historical Thesaurus of English • Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition • Old English dictionaries • 650,000 meanings • detailed semantic taxonomy http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/ sesll/englang/thesaur/homepage.htm
Musical Instruments • piano 1803 • pianoforte 1767 • forte-piano 1769 • joanna 1846
Interdisciplinarity Art Clothing Drink Food Health Kinship Law Music Navigation Plants Weather
Thesaurus of Old English • 50,000 meanings • MySQL database • British Academy funding http://libra.englang.arts.gla.ac.uk/oethesaurus/ http://www.oenewsletter.org/OEN/reports.php
Complex Searches • find all words meaning ‘trumpet’ • find all words meaning ‘trumpet’ recorded between 1400 and 1850 • find all words meaning ‘trumpet’ recorded after 1700 in the USA
Significance • interdisciplinarity • research enhancement • fully electronic Historical Thesaurus
Issues • Spelling • piano* > pianoe, pianos, pianoes • OED ‘Trumpet’, also 4-6 trompette,- et, trumpette, 5 trompett, troumpette, 6-7 trumpett; Sc. 5 trompat, troumpat(e, trumpate, 5-6 trumpat, 6 –ait