[1] From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> (19)
Subject: metrical analysis
[2] From: TAYLOR@bcvms.bc.edu (4)
Subject: Embroidery of imagination
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Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 17:10:51 +0100 (BST)
From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: metrical analysis
Two colleagues in the University of London are embarking on a project to do
metrical analysis of 13th-15th century English, on a corpus they will be
creating of about 500,000 words. Variants and dialectical differences are
involved. They would be most grateful for any suggestions about what
software they might benefit from. In particular, it seemed to me that a
syllable-counting or marking routine would help, even if it could do no
better than 50-60% accuracy in identifying syllables. It is clear that the
end-product, technically speaking, has to be a marked-up text, but they are
not yet entirely certain what to mark and how to mark it.
Comments and advice should be sent to Humanist. I will forward messages to them.
Thanks.
WM
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Dr. Willard McCarty
Senior Lecturer, Centre for Computing in the Humanities
King's College London
Strand
London WC2R 2LS
+44 (0)171 873 2784 voice; 873 5081 fax
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/
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Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 10:21:01 -0400 (EDT)
From: TAYLOR@bcvms.bc.edu
Subject: Embroidery of imagination
In Jude the Obscure, Thomas Hardy quotes the phrase, "embroidery of imagination
upon the stuff of nature". Does anyone know the source of this phrase?
Thanks
D.Taylor
taylor@bc.edu