Collaborative research opportunity in the humanities and historical social sciences, focusing on linguistic and historical analysis of English texts written between 1473 and 1700.
Project details
In coordination with WashU’s Humanities Digital Workshop, the University of Pennsylvania's Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) is seeking annotators with interest in Early Modern English to join the EarlyPrint TRACE project team. The TRACE (Tools and Resources for Analysis of Early English Books Online) Project supports the creation of automatic tools to analyze, label, and interact with Early Modern English text and that will open up new research possibilities for historical linguists, social scientists, historians, and literary scholars. The TRACE team is building a database of examples from many genres of text in Early Modern English to help improve analytic tool performance.
Position details
As a TRACE Project Language Specialist, you will be an important part of the data team, working closely with team leaders to build and analyze our research database for Early Modern English, consisting of texts from the Early English Books Online (EEBO-TCP) collection of books spanning the period from 1475 to 1700 in a range of genres. Your primary responsibilities include analyzing the selected texts for linguistic features of interest. All texts are written in Early Modern English.
Undergradaute researchers on the NSF-funded TRACE project will receive hourly wages ($17/hour) and are expected to contribute at least 10 hours/week during the academic semester. New team members will be trained together as a small group. No specific skills required, but demonstrated interest in Early Modern English, historical linguistics and/or syntax and experience with coordinated work preferred.
Interested students should contact Douglas Knox (DKnox@wustl.edu) or Joseph Loewenstein (jfloewen@wustl.edu), who can explain the opportunity further and refer interested students to our colleagles at the UPenn LDC.
