HISTORY AND THE CORPUS APPROACH: THE COMPUTER-AIDED CONSTRUCTION OF A DICTIONARY OF HISTORIC TERMS1This article is an extended and amalgamated version of two papers given by the authors, the one entitled ‘The rewards of digitisation: a corpus-based approach to writing history’, given at the conference on Digital Resources for Humanities 2005, and the other ‘The use of textual analysis in the construction of a dictionary and some unexpected benefits’ at the conference organised by History and Computing 2005.

Author： COX NANCY  

Publisher： Edinburgh University Press

ISSN： 1755-1706

Source： International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing, Vol.1, Iss.1, 2007-3, pp. : 5-18

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