Historic machines from 'prams' to 'Parliament': new avenues for collaborative linguistic research
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May 5, 2022
Abstract
Research in computational linguistics has made successful attempts at modelling word meaning at scale, but much remains to be done to put these computational models to the test of historical scholarship (see e.g. Beelen et al. 2021). More importantly, a lot of computational research looks at texts in a historical vacuum, 'synchronically', as linguists would say. In Living with Machines, an interdisciplinary research project that rethinks the impact of technology on the lives of ordinary people during the Industrial Revolution, we decided to address a fundamental question: what did people mean by ‘machine’ and how has this meaning changed over time?
This paper outlines how a simple research question like 'what was a machine?' can provide an opportunity to engage the public with our work while also generating data for analysis and new avenues of research in a radically collaborative way.
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British Library
Living with Machines
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Living with Machines
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Arts and Humanities Research Council | AH/S01179X/1 |
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DH Benelux 2022 Conference
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British Library
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London, UK
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