scholarly journals Automatic Identification of Spelling Variation in Historical Texts

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Robertson
Keyword(s):  
Historical Linguistics ◽  
Morphological Changes ◽  
Automatic Identification ◽  
Sound Recordings ◽  
First Order ◽  
Historical Texts ◽  
Physical Form ◽  
Spelling Variation ◽  
Written Word ◽  
Changes Over Time

Languages in earlier stages of development differ from their modern analogues, reflecting syntactic, semantic and morphological changes over time. The study of these and other phenomena is the major concern of historical linguistics. The development of literacy and advances in technology mean that human language has often been reserved in physical form. Whilst these artefacts will eventually include video and sound recordings, the current life blood of historical linguistics is text. The written word is the de facto source of evidence for earlier stages of languages and “the first-order witnesses to the more distance linguistic past are written texts.” (Lass, 1997) This dissertation proposes and evaluates a method for identifying spelling variants in historical documents.

Idiopathic Papular Dermatitis in the Spectrum of Chronic Papular Eruptions (Subacute Prurigo): Reappraisal and Diagnostic Algorithm

Dermatology ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 235 (3) ◽  
pp. 205-212
Author(s):  
Ayelet Ollech ◽  
Emmilia Hodak ◽  
Michael David ◽  
Akiva Trattner ◽  
Elena Didkovsky ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Skin Diseases ◽  
Clinical Investigation ◽  
Morphological Changes ◽  
Medical Center ◽  
Age At Onset ◽  
Diagnostic Algorithm ◽  
Papular Eruption ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Changes Over Time ◽  
Papular Dermatitis

Background: The clinical diagnosis of papular eruptions is common but poorly characterized in the literature and the etiology is often unknown. Objective: To characterize the entity of idiopathic papular dermatitis in the spectrum of chronic papular eruptions. Methods: The cohort consisted of patients who presented at a tertiary medical center in 2005–2014 with a papular eruption of at least 4 months’ duration. Findings on histological analysis and thorough clinical investigation, performed in all cases, were collected. The patients completed a questionnaire on disease course and outcome. Results: Sixty-five patients were included. Sixteen patients showed morphological changes over time and were excluded. Investigations in the remaining 49 patients with a consistent papular morphology yielded a well-defined diagnosis in 23 (46%). Twenty-six patients (54%; 14 male) were diagnosed with idiopathic papular dermatitis. Their mean age at onset was 61.6 ± 14.4 years and the mean duration of disease 3.11 ± 2.726 years. In 60%, the rash resolved with conservative treatment during follow-up (mean 4.35 ± 2.53 years). Conclusions: Chronic papular eruptions encompass a wide range of skin diseases. In more than half of the cases, the etiopathogenesis remains unclear. On the basis of our results, we propose a diagnostic algorithm for idiopathic papular dermatitis.

scholarly journals A pancreatic mucinous cystic neoplasm undergoing intriguing morphological changes over time and associated with recurrent pancreatitis

Medicine ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 98 (28) ◽  
pp. e16435 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erika Shioyama ◽  
Akira Mitoro ◽  
Hiroyuki Ogawa ◽  
Takuya Kubo ◽  
Takahiro Ozutsumi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Morphological Changes ◽  
Mucinous Cystic Neoplasm ◽  
Cystic Neoplasm ◽  
Recurrent Pancreatitis ◽  
Changes Over Time ◽  
Over Time

scholarly journals Automatic Identification of First-Order Veins and Corolla Contours in Three-Dimensional Floral Images

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yi-Hsiang Wang ◽  
Hao-Chun Hsu ◽  
Wen-Chieh Chou ◽  
Chia-Hao Liang ◽  
Yan-Fu Kuo
Keyword(s):  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Automatic Identification ◽  
First Order

Historical insights for ebook design

2016 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 764-786 ◽  
Author(s):  
HyunSeung Koh ◽  
Susan C. Herring
Keyword(s):  
Reading Practices ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Physical Constraints ◽  
Historical Texts ◽  
Physical Form ◽  
Print Books ◽  
Books And Reading ◽  
Print Reading ◽  
Over Time

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide ebook designers and researchers with design insights by promoting historical knowledge about books and reading as sources of ideas to implement in current and future ebooks. Design/methodology/approach The authors review historical features of books and practices of reading that have been implemented, weakened, or lost over time, referring to historical texts and resources, and relate them to ebook viewers (software) and readers (hardware) that are currently on the market. In particular, the review focuses on the physical form of the book and the practices of reading, annotation, and bookshelving. Findings While some older forms and reading practices have been implemented in ebook devices, others have been forgotten over time, due in part to physical constraints that are no longer relevant. The authors suggest that features that constrained print books and print reading in the past might actually improve the design of ebooks and e-reading in the present. Research limitations/implications This review is necessarily based on a limited set of existing historical sources. Practical implications Translating insights into novel tangible designs is always a challenging task. Ebook designers can gain insights from this paper that can be applied in a variety of design contexts. Originality/value No previous work on ebook design has foregrounded historical aspects of books and reading as viable sources of ideas to implement in ebooks.

Historical Dialectology in the Digital Age

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Middle English ◽  
Historical Linguistics ◽  
Electronic Version ◽  
Digital Text ◽  
Historical Texts ◽  
New Methods ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
The University ◽  
Future Work ◽  
Different Levels

Drawing on the resources created by the Institute of Historical Dialectology at the University of Edinburgh (now the Angus McIntosh Centre for Historical Linguistics), such as eLALME (the electronic version A Linguistic Atlas of Late Medieval English), LAEME (A Linguistic Atlas of Early Middle English) and LAOS (A Linguistic Atlas of Older Scots), this volume illustrates how traditional methods of historical dialectology can benefit from new methods of corpus data-collection to test out theoretical and empirical claims. In showcasing the results that these digital text resources can yield, the book highlights novel methods for presenting, mapping and analysing the quantitative data of historical dialects, and sets the research agenda for future work in this field. Bringing together a range of distinguished researchers, the book sets out the key corpus-building strategies for working with regional manuscript data at different levels of linguistic analysis including syntax, morphology, phonetics and phonology. The chapters also show the ways in which the geographical spread of phonological, morphological and lexical features of a language can be used to improve our assessment of the geographical provenance of historical texts.

scholarly journals Numerical simulations through first order nonlinear difference equation to study highly ductile symmetric fold (HDSF) dynamics: A conceptual study

1998 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 281-298 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. S. Sagar
Keyword(s):  
Difference Equation ◽  
Numerical Simulations ◽  
Morphological Changes ◽  
Fractal Dimensions ◽  
Dynamical Behaviour ◽  
Nonlinear Difference Equation ◽  
First Order ◽  
Dynamical Behaviors ◽  
Conceptual Study ◽  
Viable Model

Changes in morphology of a geological fold are due to stress and internally exerting forces (IEFs). Such morphological changes can be quantified in terms of fractal dimensions. Stress and the fractal dimension are depicted in normalized scale as dimensionless parameters.Incorporating these parameters in a first order nonlinear difference equation that has physical relevance as the simplest viable model of a symmetric fold sustaining morphological changes,numerical simulations are carried out which are analogous tocreep experiments. In the first experiment, the constant stress (λ) is employed to model the morphological dynamical behaviour of highly ductile symmetric folds (HDSFs) that are postulated as they are precarious to stress and IEF, and will not supervene the state of brittleness during the evolution. In the second experiment, the time dependent stress that is changed according to a dynamical rule is used to model distinct dynamical behaviors of these HDSFs.The results arrived through computer simulations are the attractor interlimb angles (AIAs).Bifurcation diagrams are also depicted to show the dynamical behaviors concerning the change in the stress dynamics.

Automatic identification of sound recordings

2004 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 92-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Venkatachalam ◽  
L. Cazzanti ◽  
N. Dhillon ◽  
M. Wells
Keyword(s):  
Automatic Identification ◽  
Sound Recordings

scholarly journals OPEN leaf: an open-source cloud-based phenotyping system for tracking dynamic changes at leaf-specific resolution in Arabidopsis

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Landon Gary Alan Swartz ◽  
Suxing Liu ◽  
Drew Dahlquist ◽  
Emily S Walter ◽  
Skyler Kramer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
High Throughput ◽  
Modular Design ◽  
Morphological Changes ◽  
Gene Families ◽  
Plant Phenotyping ◽  
Gene Redundancy ◽  
High Throughput Screens ◽  
Changes Over Time ◽  
Inducible Gene

The first draft of the Arabidopsis genome was released more than 20 years ago and despite intensive molecular research, more than 30% of Arabidopsis genes remained uncharacterized or without an assigned function. This is in part due to gene redundancy within gene families or the essential nature of genes, where their deletion results in lethality (i.e., the dark genome). High-throughput plant phenotyping (HTPP) offers an automated and unbiased approach to characterize subtle or transient phenotypes resulting from gene redundancy or inducible gene silencing; however, commercial HTPP platforms remain unaffordable. Here we describe the design and implementation of OPEN leaf, an open-source HTPP system with cloud connectivity and remote bilateral communication to facilitate data collection, sharing and processing. OPEN leaf, coupled with the SMART imaging processing package was able to consistently document and quantify dynamic morphological changes over time at the whole rosette level and also at leaf-specific resolution when plants experienced changes in nutrient availability. The modular design of OPEN leaf allows for additional sensor integration. Notably, our data demonstrate that VIS sensors remain underutilized and can be used in high-throughput screens to identify characterize previously unidentified phenotypes in a leaf-specific manner.

scholarly journals Issues and challenges in compiling a corpus of Early Modern English plays for comparison with those of William Shakespeare

ICAME Journal ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Demmen
Keyword(s):  
William Shakespeare ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Historical Texts ◽  
Early Modern English ◽  
Language Style ◽  
Spelling Variation ◽  
Selection For ◽  
Historical Play ◽  
Over Time

AbstractIn this article I discuss the issues and challenges of compiling a corpus of historical plays by a range of playwrights that is highly suitable for use in comparative, corpus-based research into language style in Shakespeare’s plays. In discussing sources for digitised historical play-texts and criteria for making a selection for the present study, I argue that not just any set of Early Modern English plays constitutes a suitable basis upon which to make reliable claims about language style in Shakespeare’s plays relative to those of his peers. I point out factors outside of authorial choice which potentially have bearing on language style, such as sub-genre features and change over time. I also highlight some particular difficulties in compiling a corpus of historical texts, notably dating and spelling variation, and I explain how these were addressed. The corpus detailed in this article extends the prospects for investigating Shakespeare’s language style by providing a context into which it can be set and, as I indicate, is a valuable new publicly accessible resource for future research.

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