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A Framework for Retrieval and Annotation in Digital Humanities Using XQuery Full Text and Update in BaseX
Book title (Conference Proceedings)
DocEng '12 : Proceedings of the 2012 ACM Symposium on Document Engineering : Paris, France, September 4–7, 2012
Place of Conference
Paris, France
Year of Conference
2012
Publisher
ACM
Place of Publication
New York
Pages
195-204
Keywords
BaseX, XQuery Full Text, phraseology, XML, TEI, database, corpus linguistics
Abstract
A key difference between traditional humanities research and the emerging field of digital humanities is that the latter aims to complement qualitative methods with quantitative data. In linguistics, this means the use of large corpora of text, which are usually annotated automatically using natural language processing tools. However, these tools do not exist for historical texts, so scholars have to work with unannotated data. We have developed a system for systematic, iterative exploration and annotation of historical text corpora, which relies on an XML database (BaseX) and in particular on the Full Text and Update facilities of XQuery.
