Electronic Texts in the Humanities: Principles and Practice [Paperback]

Susan Hockey (Author)

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ISBN-10: 0198711956 | ISBN-13: 978-0198711957 | Publication Date: January 25, 2001

This book introduces a range of tools and techniques for manipulating and analyzing electronic texts in the humanities. It shows how electronic texts can be used for the literary analysis, linguistic analysis, authorship attribution, and the preparation and publication of electronic scholarly editions. It also assesses the ways in which research in corpus and computational linguistics can feed into better electronic tools for humanities research.

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A lucid introduction to the technical parameters of the field of digital document management from the perspective of the humanities . Modernism/Modernity Susan Hockey's informative handbook about what computers do and might do for analysers of literature and language is an engaging cross between a travelogue, a manufacturer's manual and a cookbook Valentine Cunningham, Times Higher Education Supplement Much of Hockey's value is in relaying not only other people's electronic methods and results, but also in passing on well-deserved doubts and scepticisms Valentine Cunningham, Times Higher Education Supplement

About the Author

Susan Hockey is Professor of Library and Information Studies, University College London

Product Details

• Paperback: 232 pages
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (January 25, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0198711956
• ISBN-13: 978-0198711957
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,199,055 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars for a humanities reader, February 28, 2006

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This review is from: Electronic Texts in the Humanities: Principles and Practice (Paperback)

Hockey has been involved in the use of computers for the humanities since the 1980s. This is her most recent book. It is directed towards a reader majoring in the humanities, who needs some guidance with computing. The book is brief, and summarises what can be done in terms of preparing manuscripts for journals, many of which nowadays offer and may actually prefer electronic submission.

But Hockey also discusses how once papers have been put into electronic form, they can be analysed. At various levels of semantic/linguistic parsing. The computer science jargon is minimised, for which some readers should be grateful. The ideas are explained clearly.