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Now @thijsporck himself is speaking at #SOEMEHL42, on onomasiological (no, I didn't know it was a word either) profiling of OE texts.
This is simply an incredible tool that Thijs is presenting, enabling the analysis of the use of vocab in Beowulf, Andreas, and the OEM.
My fingers are already itching to play with this http://evoke.ullet.net/app/#/view?source=toe
I have to admit that I've never made good enough use of the richness available in https://oldenglishthesaurus.arts.gla.ac.uk/ , which this talk is showing me how to use much more effectively.
Yay! Pig words in OE!
Great findings and wonderfully clearly presented at #SOEMEHL42, with birds knocking everything else off their perch (in terms of lexical referencing).
V exciting to have thesauri created for this texts.
It's so hard to enable students to understand and analyse the idea of poetic vocabulary - but look at the clarity that can result from this sort of tool!
This work could work so excitingly with Oxford @CLASP_ERC project for analysis of relative style and associations between texts. #SOEMEHL42
Distribution of hapaxes in Beowulf and Andreas, highlighting the poet's interest in peace at #SOEMEHL42
(A finding which is going straight into my first Beowulf lecture in 2021.)
Because what these findings show us is how hard the poets and authors are working to express ideas in different ways in their texts, and how experimental they are in relation to different fields of meaning. #SOEMEHL42 I love this shit.
Go to http://evoke.ullet.net/events and follow @ssstolk here to find out more! #SOEMEHL42 Brilliant from @thijsporck
