The Royal Society Corpus 6.0: Providing 300+ Years of Scientific Writing for Humanistic Study
We present a new, extended version of the Royal Society Corpus (RSC), a diachronic corpus of scientific English now covering 300+ years of scientific writing (1665--1996). The corpus comprises 47 837 texts, primarily scientific articles, and is based on publications of the Royal Society of London, mainly its Philosophical Transactions and Proceedings. The corpus has been built on the basis of the FAIR principles and is freely available under a Creative Commons license, excluding copy-righted parts. We provide information on how the corpus can be found, the file formats available for download as well as accessibility via a web-based corpus query platform. We show a number of analytic tools that we have implemented for better usability and provide an example of use of the corpus for linguistic analysis as well as examples of subsequent, external uses of earlier releases. We place the RSC against the background of existing English diachronic/scientific corpora, elaborating on its value for linguistic and humanistic study.
Code (0)
등록된 구현이 없습니다.
Tasks
ArticlesSimilar Papers 제목 키워드 기반
The Royal Society Corpus: From Uncharted Data to Corpus
We present the Royal Society Corpus (RSC) built from the Philosophical Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. At present, the corpus contains articles from the first two centuries of the journal (16…
ArticlesSentenceThe Making of the Royal Society Corpus
Exploring diachronic syntactic shifts with dependency length: the case of scientific English
We report on an application of universal dependencies for the study of diachronic shifts in syntactic usage patterns. Our focus is on the evolution of Scientific English in the Late Modern English period (ca. 1700-1900).…
Using relative entropy for detection and analysis of periods of diachronic linguistic change
We present a data-driven approach to detect periods of linguistic change and the lexical and grammatical features contributing to change. We focus on the development of scientific English in the late modern period. Our a…
Methods, Data, and Conceptual Change: Reflections from Two Quantitative Diachronic Case Studies
This discussion paper reflects on how quantitative approaches to historical linguistics interact with dataset properties. Drawing on two worked examples, we examine English data using quad-based concept modelling of Earl…