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AMALGUM
AMALGUM is a machine annotated multilayer corpus following the same design and annotation layers as GUM (Georgetown University Multilayer Corpus), but substantially larger (around 4M tokens). The goal of this corpus is to close the gap between high quality, richly annotated, but small datasets, and the larger but shallowly annotated corpora that are often scraped…
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What Makes Individual I’s a Collective We
I came across this article some time ago and marked it as something to examine when there was time. I’m working on the time part, but I wanted to note it here for a couple of reasons: First, the relationship between the individual and collective is central to folklore studies and, I think, makes folklore…
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On Folk History
and how people talk about the past In my two years with the U.S. Army I found they were very focused on narrative and messaging, and largely understood narrative as messaging. That is, they did not think about narrative so much as a way to shape or structure information but simply as the content. What…
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An Origin Story
Yonder.ist has its origins in some of my earliest childhood memories. Growing up in the small town of Franklin, Louisiana, I spent a lot of time with my paternal grandparents, who lived out of town, on a road that followed a curve in the Bayou Teche known as “Irish Bend.” In the middle of the…
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Hello there!
“Hello there!” is my take on the traditional “Hello world!” which has become of those “first thing” you are supposed to do when learning a new language. In Python, it would look like: print(“Hello world!”) While some of what we will discuss here will include the computability of narrative features of discourse—that is, how we…
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A Star to Steer By
This semester I am teaching a class on Project Management in Humanities Scholarship. I have seen enough graduate students stumble when shifting from the managed research environment of course papers to the unmanaged research environment of the thesis or dissertation, that I thought it would be useful to try out some of the things we…
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Raising a Worldbuilder
A recent comment I made on the current state of education in the humanities on LinkedIn drew a fair amount of attention. I’m not linking to that comment here as it was of a moment, but there are some things I have observed based both on being a parent of a particular kind of thinker…