Transcript Update on Glasgow Input to HTST

SAMUELS End of Project Meeting
Glasgow Updates:
Thematic Categories
Updating of Manually Tagged Texts
Changes to Historical Thesaurus Structure
Thematic Category Set
• Thematic categories developed to provide
‘Human scale’ categories
– e.g. AQ03b Ghost/phantom
• Useful
– for users finding search terms
– as aggregation level for results of semantic tagging
Thematic Category Set
• Top layer corresponds to tier 2 categories
– AA (The world) to BK (Leisure)
• Four further layers
• No HT subcategories listed (though contents
not excluded by tagger)
Thematic Category Set
BK02d01 Party:
BK
BK02
BK02d
BK02d01
Leisure
Social event
Social gathering
Party
Manually Tagged Texts
• Two excerpts from Hansard - 1820 and 2001
• Two pieces of fiction (Charles Dickens and P.G.
Wodehouse)
• Biography of Thomas Jefferson
• History - Gibbon’s Decline and Fall
• Journalism
• Newspaper opinion column
• [Email thread and conversation transcript]
Manually Tagged Texts
• Re-evaluation of manually tagged texts necessary
– e.g. ‘unity’ in ‘the centre of public unity’
• 03.01.07.06-02 (society – dissent – concord)
• 01.16.04.01.01.02 (relative properties – number – unity)
• ‘History’ most affected?
– Metaphor/metonymy particularly problematic
• ‘immediate eye of the supreme power’
• ‘the weight of a powerful empire’
• ‘compete for the palm of eloquence’
Changes to Structure
• 01.02 Life now split into:
– 01.02 Life
– 01.03 Health and disease
– 01.04 People
– 01.05 Animals
– 01.06 Plants
– 01.07 Food and drink
– 01.08 Textiles and clothing
Changes to Structure
• Existence in space and time split
• Attention/judgement promoted to level 2
• Aesthetics included under
Attention/judgement
Changes to Structure
• 02.06 Refusal/denial moved into 02.08.06
Statement
• Place taken by Goodness and badness
– this moved from 02.01.15.07.08/09, part of
Attention, judgement
Changes to Structure
• Other minor changes
– 03.04.13 Law now 03.05
– 03.10.13 Trade and commerce now 03.12 Trade
and finance