Comments on: What do you want to search for? http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/vhl/archives/2005/11/03/what-do-you-want-to-search-for/ going in with a hunch Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:40:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.2 Comment on What do you want to search for? by: guyda http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/vhl/archives/2005/11/03/what-do-you-want-to-search-for/#comment-1908 Mon, 07 Nov 2005 14:07:13 +0000 http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/vhl/archives/2005/11/03/what-do-you-want-to-search-for/#comment-1908 I agree with Mike that KWIC results would be terrific - exactly the kind of thing which would constitute a real value-added function for textual scholars. Since Boccaccio tends to cluster lexical items (words, associations, intertextual references) in the same way across his corpus, to display this feature across a number of his texts would be tremendous. Likewise, distinguishing between commentary and commented text, would be welcome, as would the citations. I'll post on that separately, 'momentarily', as you say in American English. I agree with Mike that KWIC results would be terrific - exactly the kind of thing which would constitute a real value-added function for textual scholars. Since Boccaccio tends to cluster lexical items (words, associations, intertextual references) in the same way across his corpus, to display this feature across a number of his texts would be tremendous.

Likewise, distinguishing between commentary and commented text, would be welcome, as would the citations. I’ll post on that separately, ‘momentarily’, as you say in American English.

]]> Comment on What do you want to search for? by: matt http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/vhl/archives/2005/11/03/what-do-you-want-to-search-for/#comment-1904 Mon, 07 Nov 2005 04:39:52 +0000 http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/vhl/archives/2005/11/03/what-do-you-want-to-search-for/#comment-1904 Mike, As you'll see when the full description of Villani encoding principles is up, and as you may be able to imagine from the entry below, dates are encoded. The dates are given as Villani gives them. The values include 1) the date and 2) the year. Since Villani jumps around a great deal in his chapters we've encoded expressions of dates themselves rather than whole chapters. Mike,
As you’ll see when the full description of Villani encoding principles is up, and as you may be able to imagine from the entry below, dates are encoded. The dates are given as Villani gives them. The values include 1) the date and 2) the year. Since Villani jumps around a great deal in his chapters we’ve encoded expressions of dates themselves rather than whole chapters.

]]> Comment on What do you want to search for? by: mike http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/vhl/archives/2005/11/03/what-do-you-want-to-search-for/#comment-1902 Thu, 03 Nov 2005 18:24:47 +0000 http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/vhl/archives/2005/11/03/what-do-you-want-to-search-for/#comment-1902 Great idea. Out of these examples, I have to say that I especially like the Balzac one. Since other, interesting things are being put into the encoding of our texts, what about doing something like getting a list of the names that are within var. # words from the search object? Regarding Villani, are the dates being encoded as dates? It would be great to be able to search for some common word by restricting its location to one or more of the dates that appear in the text (or to a predeterimned array). For the Esposizioni, I would be absolutely overjoyed to have the pieces of the commented text marked as distinct from the commentary that surrounds it so that, for example, you can search for something in one without getting the ohter. SImilarly, users could strip all the commentary from the text and see what would amount to the copy of the INf that B had in front of him (which would be particularly useful for a place to stick variants in annotations). That would be a fantastic philological recontruction perhaps worthy of an article... Other than these special things, nothing comes to my mind. It would be super, super fantastic to get the results in KWIC format. How does that seem as a possibility? M Great idea. Out of these examples, I have to say that I especially like the Balzac one.

Since other, interesting things are being put into the encoding of our texts, what about doing something like getting a list of the names that are within var. # words from the search object?

Regarding Villani, are the dates being encoded as dates? It would be great to be able to search for some common word by restricting its location to one or more of the dates that appear in the text (or to a predeterimned array).

For the Esposizioni, I would be absolutely overjoyed to have the pieces of the commented text marked as distinct from the commentary that surrounds it so that, for example, you can search for something in one without getting the ohter. SImilarly, users could strip all the commentary from the text and see what would amount to the copy of the INf that B had in front of him (which would be particularly useful for a place to stick variants in annotations). That would be a fantastic philological recontruction perhaps worthy of an article…

Other than these special things, nothing comes to my mind. It would be super, super fantastic to get the results in KWIC format. How does that seem as a possibility?

M

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