Measuring the distribution of Hume’s Scotticisms in the ECCO collection

Iiro Tiihonen; Aatu Liimatta; Lidia Pivovarova; Tanja Säily; Mikko Tolonen

Measuring the distribution of Hume’s Scotticisms in the ECCO collection

Iiro Tiihonen, Aatu Liimatta, Lidia Pivovarova, Tanja Säily, Mikko Tolonen

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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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the Joint 3rd International Conference on Natural Language Processing for Digital Humanities and 8th International Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Uralic Languages
Editors	Mika Hämäläinen, Emily Öhman, Flammie Pirinen, Khalid Alnajjar, So Miyagawa, Yuri Bizzoni, Niko Partanen, Jack Rueter
Number of pages	9
Place of Publication	Stroudsburg
Publisher	The Association for Computational Linguistics
Publication date	2023
Pages	36-44
ISBN (Electronic)	979-8-89176-012-7
Publication status	Published - 2023
MoE publication type	A4 Article in conference proceedings
Event	International Conference on Natural Language Processing for Digital Humanities - Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan Duration: 1 Dec 2023 → 3 Dec 2023 Conference number: 3

Fields of Science

6121 Languages
Scotticisms
standardization
Late Modern English
615 History and Archaeology
Scottish Enlightenment
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)

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RiCEP: Rise of commercial society and eighteenth-century publishing
Tolonen, M. (Principal Investigator) & Säily, T. (Co-Principal Investigator)
Academy of Finland, Finland, Suomen Akatemia Projektilaskutus
01/09/2020 → 31/08/2024
Project: Research project

Measuring the distribution of Hume's Scotticisms in the ECCO collection
Tiihonen, I. L. I. (Speaker), Liimatta, A. (Speaker), Pivovarova, L. (Speaker), Säily, T. (Speaker) & Tolonen, M. (Speaker)
3 Dec 2023
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

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Tiihonen, I., Liimatta, A., Pivovarova, L., Säily, T., & Tolonen, M. (2023). Measuring the distribution of Hume’s Scotticisms in the ECCO collection. In M. Hämäläinen, E. Öhman, F. Pirinen, K. Alnajjar, S. Miyagawa, Y. Bizzoni, N. Partanen, & J. Rueter (Eds.), Proceedings of the Joint 3rd International Conference on Natural Language Processing for Digital Humanities and 8th International Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Uralic Languages (pp. 36-44). The Association for Computational Linguistics. https://aclanthology.org/2023.nlp4dh-1.5

Tiihonen, Iiro ; Liimatta, Aatu ; Pivovarova, Lidia et al. / Measuring the distribution of Hume’s Scotticisms in the ECCO collection. Proceedings of the Joint 3rd International Conference on Natural Language Processing for Digital Humanities and 8th International Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Uralic Languages. editor / Mika Hämäläinen ; Emily Öhman ; Flammie Pirinen ; Khalid Alnajjar ; So Miyagawa ; Yuri Bizzoni ; Niko Partanen ; Jack Rueter. Stroudsburg : The Association for Computational Linguistics, 2023. pp. 36-44

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Tiihonen, I , Liimatta, A , Pivovarova, L , Säily, T & Tolonen, M 2023, Measuring the distribution of Hume’s Scotticisms in the ECCO collection. in M Hämäläinen, E Öhman, F Pirinen, K Alnajjar, S Miyagawa, Y Bizzoni, N Partanen & J Rueter (eds), Proceedings of the Joint 3rd International Conference on Natural Language Processing for Digital Humanities and 8th International Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Uralic Languages. The Association for Computational Linguistics, Stroudsburg, pp. 36-44, International Conference on Natural Language Processing for Digital Humanities, Tokyo, Japan, 01/12/2023. <https://aclanthology.org/2023.nlp4dh-1.5>

Measuring the distribution of Hume’s Scotticisms in the ECCO collection. / Tiihonen, Iiro ; Liimatta, Aatu ; Pivovarova, Lidia et al.
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Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Scientific › peer-review

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Measuring the distribution of Hume’s Scotticisms in the ECCO collection

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