Abstract
This paper reports on interdisciplinary research into the automated geographical analysis of historical text corpora. It provides an introduction to this research, which is being completed by two interrelated projects: the European Research Council-funded Spatial Humanities project and the Leverhulme Trust-funded Geospatial Innovation in the Digital Humanities project. In addition to contextualising the work of these projects, the paper introduces a case study that applies collocation analysis, automated geo-parsing, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS). The focus of this study is a 1.5 million-word corpus of writing about the English Lake District. This corpus comprises 80 works written between the years 1622 and 1900. In investigating this corpus, we demonstrate how a hybrid geographical and corpus-based methodology can be used to study the application of specific aesthetic terminology in historical writing about the Lakeland region.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Historical atlas: its concepts and methodologies |
Editors | Peter Kees Bol |
Place of Publication | Seoul |
Publisher | Tongbuga Yŏksa Chaedan |
Pages | 152-172 |
Number of pages | 21 |
ISBN (Print) | 9788961874564 |
Publication status | Published - 2017 |