Measuring the distribution of Hume’s Scotticisms in the ECCO collection
Iiro Tiihonen, Aatu Liimatta, Lidia Pivovarova, Tanja Säily, Mikko Tolonen
Abstract
This short paper studies the distribution of Scotticisms from a list compiled by David Hume in a large collection of 18th century publications. We use regular expression search to find the items on the list in the ECCO collection, and then apply regression analysis to test whether the distribution of Scotticisms in works first published in Scotland is significantly different from the distribution of Scotticisms in works first published in England. We further refine our analysis to trace the influence of variables such as publication date, genre and author’s country of origin.- Anthology ID:
- 2023.nlp4dh-1.5
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Joint 3rd International Conference on Natural Language Processing for Digital Humanities and 8th International Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Uralic Languages
- Month:
- December
- Year:
- 2023
- Address:
- Tokyo, Japan
- Editors:
- Mika Hämäläinen, Emily Öhman, Flammie Pirinen, Khalid Alnajjar, So Miyagawa, Yuri Bizzoni, Niko Partanen, Jack Rueter
- Venues:
- NLP4DH | IWCLUL
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 36–44
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2023.nlp4dh-1.5
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Iiro Tiihonen, Aatu Liimatta, Lidia Pivovarova, Tanja Säily, and Mikko Tolonen. 2023. Measuring the distribution of Hume’s Scotticisms in the ECCO collection. In Proceedings of the Joint 3rd International Conference on Natural Language Processing for Digital Humanities and 8th International Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Uralic Languages, pages 36–44, Tokyo, Japan. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Measuring the distribution of Hume’s Scotticisms in the ECCO collection (Tiihonen et al., NLP4DH-IWCLUL 2023)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/emnlp-22-attachments/2023.nlp4dh-1.5.pdf