Joanna Elizabeth Taylor
Lancaster University
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Journal of Map and Geography Libraries | 2017
James Odelle Butler; Christopher Elliott Donaldson; Joanna Elizabeth Taylor; Ian N. Gregory
Accurate automated identification of named places is a major concern for scholars in the digital humanities, and especially for those engaged in research that depends upon the gazetteer-led recognition of specific aspects. The field of onomastics examines the linguistic roots and historical development of names, which have for the most part only standardized into single officially recognized forms since the late nineteenth century. Even slight spelling variations can introduce errors in geotagging techniques, and these differences in place-name spellings are thus vital considerations when seeking high rates of correct geospatial identification in historical texts. This article offers an overview of typical name-based variation that can cause issues in the accurate geotagging of any historical resource. The article argues that careful study and documentation of these variations can assist in the development of more complete onymic records, which in turn may inform geo-taggers through a cycle of variational recognition. It demonstrates how patterns in regional naming variation and development, across both specific and generic name elements, can be identified through the historical records of each known location. The article uses examples taken from a digitized corpus of writing about the English Lake District, a collection of 80 texts that date from between 1622 and 1900. Four of the more complex spelling-based problems encountered during the creation of a manual gazetteer for this corpus are examined. Specifically, the article demonstrates how and why such variation must be expected, particularly in the years preceding the standardization of place-name spellings. It suggests how procedural developments may be undertaken to account for such geo-referential issues in the Named Entity Recognition (NER) strategies employed by future projects. Similarly, the benefits of such multigenre corpora to assist in completing onomastic records is also shown via examples of new name forms discovered for prominent sites in the Lake District. This focus is accompanied by a discussion of the influence of literary works on place-name standardization—an aspect not typically accounted for in traditional onomastic study—to illustrate the extent to which authorial interests in regional toponymic histories can influence linguistic development.
Essays in Romanticism | 2018
Joanna Elizabeth Taylor
Hartley Coleridge has often been dismissed as little more than a minor poet driven to drink by his angst over a poetic inheritance passed down by his father, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and mentor, William Wordsworth. Poems like Wordsworth’s “To H.C. Six Years Old” were particularly influential in establishing a myth of Hartley as a faery creature who was ill-suited for adult life. Yet, Hartley challenged this myth in his own poetry and, as this essay argues, transformed it into a mode for critiquing not only his literary relationships with the first-generation Romantics, but also for assessing Wordsworth’s later poetry. Further, this essay suggests that Hartley’s poetic responses to Wordsworth indicate growing confidence in his literary talents, and articulate his claims to be considered as an important Lake Poet in his own right.
conference on spatial information theory | 2017
Olga Chesnokova; Joanna Elizabeth Taylor; Ross S. Purves
The importance of perception across all the senses has been recognised in previous studies on landscape preferences. Here, we focus on aural perception, and in a preliminary study explore how references to sounds and their sources can be extracted from descriptions of images in a corpus containing 85,000 documents. We classified references to sounds according to previous work as biophony, geophony and antrophony. As a first step we have extracted descriptions related to sounds associated with verbs. The most common sound emitters in our corpus are wind (geophony), birds (biophony) and traffic (anthrophony) respectively. In future work we will move beyond the sentence level to deal with co-references, and use other parts of speech (e.g. adjectives such as quiet and loud or nouns such as noise, silence, echo, etc.).
Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Geospatial Humanities | 2017
Paul Rayson; Alexander Reinhold; James Odelle Butler; Christopher Elliott Donaldson; Ian N. Gregory; Joanna Elizabeth Taylor
This paper describes the development of an annotated corpus which forms a challenging testbed for geographical text analysis methods. This dataset, the Corpus of Lake District Writing (CLDW), consists of 80 manually digitised and annotated texts (comprising over 1.5 million word tokens). These texts were originally composed between 1622 and 1900, and they represent a range of different genres and authors. Collectively, the texts in the CLDW constitute an indicative sample of writing about the English Lake District during the early seventeenth century and the early twentieth century. The corpus is annotated more deeply than is currently possible with vanilla Named Entity Recognition, Disambiguation and geoparsing. This is especially true of the geographical information the corpus contains, since we have undertaken not only to link different historical and spelling variants of place-names, but also to identify and to differentiate geographical features such as waterfalls, woodlands, farms or inns. In addition, we illustrate the potential of the corpus as a gold standard by evaluating the results of three different NLP libraries and geoparsers on its contents. In the evaluation, the standard NER processing of the text by the different NLP libraries produces many false positive and false negative results, showing the strength of the gold standard.
Journal of Tourism History | 2017
Carrie Anderson; Giovanna Ceserani; Christopher Elliott Donaldson; Ian N. Gregory; Melanie Hall; Adam T. Rosenbaum; Joanna Elizabeth Taylor
ABSTRACT This symposium considers how the digital humanities (DH), which relies on computer technology to interpret data and present conclusions, can enhance our understanding of tourism history. It begins with an introduction that defines DH, considers how DH can assist the way in which we think about tourism, and discusses the strengths and limitations of applications like text mining and digital mapping. This is followed by a review of the scholarship on digital mapping and the humanities which also highlights some of the important themes and projects that have sprung from this dynamic interdisciplinary dialogue. The latter half of the symposium is dedicated to two project reports. The first describes how the Grand Tour Project at Stanford University is utilizing a database of digital entries which combine digitised text and structured data to illuminate connections between eighteenth-century travellers. The second discusses how the Geospatial Innovation in the Digital Humanities project at Lancaster University is using geo-spatial technologies to examine the relationship between historically evolving ideas about tourist destinations in the Lake District and the contemporary management of such sites. The symposium concludes with some contemplation of the future developments in the realm of digital humanities and tourism history.
Journal of Historical Geography | 2017
Christopher Elliott Donaldson; Ian N. Gregory; Joanna Elizabeth Taylor
Studies in Scottish literature | 2016
Christopher Elliott Donaldson; Sally Bushell; Ian N. Gregory; Joanna Elizabeth Taylor; Paul Rayson
Romanticism | 2015
Joanna Elizabeth Taylor
Literary Geographies | 2018
Joanna Elizabeth Taylor; Christopher Elliott Donaldson; Ian N. Gregory; James Odelle Butler
International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing | 2018
Joanna Elizabeth Taylor; Ian N. Gregory; Christopher Elliott Donaldson