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Literary and Linguistic Computing Advance Access published online on October 12, 2009
Literary and Linguistic Computing, doi:10.1093/llc/fqp033
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Old spellings, new methods: automated procedures for indeterminate linguistic data

Hugh Craig and R. Whipp

Centre for Literary and Linguistic Computing, School of Humanities and Social Science, The University of Newcastle, Australia

Correspondence: Hugh Craig, Centre for Literary and Linguistic Computing, School of Humanities and Social Science, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW 2308, Australia. E-mail: hugh.craig{at}newcastle.edu.au

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The authors have worked over several years on a software tool to make word counts from an archive of old-spelling early modern English plays and poems. In this article we present the outcome, a computational model for dealing automatically with variant spelling, implemented in an application which we call an ‘Intelligent Archive’. We also reflect on the perspective on Early Modern English, and on the probabilistic aspect of language in general, gained from working through the practical problems which arose in establishing the model.


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