Piloting a workflow for extracting author citations from Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language
Wong, Jasmine; Dubnicek, Ryan
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Title
Piloting a workflow for extracting author citations from Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language
Author(s)
Wong, Jasmine
Dubnicek, Ryan
Issue Date
2020-03-23
Keyword(s)
Text mining
Samuel Johnson
Dictionaries
Abstract
Since the 18th century, English-language dictionaries have used quo- tations from written works to illustrate a word's use in context. These quotations form a link between language authority and literary authority. In this paper we pilot a workflow for identifying, extracting, and counting author citations in Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language to investigate how au- thors in a defined corpus are represented. We consider how these authors are distributed across the text and compare our results to past studies that used dif- ferent methodologies. We find a consistency that encourages the broader appli- cation of our workflow on other dictionary texts, enabling further study of au- thor citations in dictionaries across time.
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