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Meaning in poetry: semantic annotation of verse with the Historical Thesaurus of English ...
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This thesis addresses the current gap in semantic annotation of poetry by presenting the first semantic tagging system specifically designed to disambiguate senses in a diachronic corpus of poetry. The ‘ambiguity tagger’ developed for this purpose utilises the hierarchical taxonomy of the Historical Thesaurus of English (HTE; Kay 2011: 42) to assign conceptual ‘tags’ to lexical items that denote the meaning of the word in context, with multiple meanings assigned to ambiguous words. The ambiguity tagger encompasses a configurable pipeline for semantic annotation, thus presenting a more flexible alternative to existing applications (Piao et al. 2005a; Rayson 2009a; Piao et al. 2017). To train the tagger, a corpus was curated from the Oxford Book of English Verse, containing poetry from the early 16th to the late 19th century (OBEV; Quiller-Couch 1919/1999). As the ambiguity tagger allows multiple meanings to be assigned to individual words in the corpus, without restricting the maximum number of senses, the ...
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semantic annotation, corpus linguistics, corpus stylistics, historical thesaurus of english, semantic collocation, semantic tagging.
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URL: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/id/eprint/82230
https://dx.doi.org/10.5525/gla.thesis.82230
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A celebration of words and ideas: the stylistic potential of the "Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary" - Christian Kay, Jane Roberts, Michael Samuels and Irené Wotherspoon (eds): Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2009; 3952 pp. [Rezension]
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In: Language and literature. - London : Sage 21 (2012) 1, 84-92
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