Vossian Antonomasia

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Automatic extraction of Vossian antonomasia from large newspaper corpora.

(Shout-out to Gerardus Vossius, 1577–1649.)

View the Project on GitHub weltliteratur/vossanto

Vossian Antonomasia

Automatic extraction of Vossian Antonomasia from large newspaper corpora.

Based on an idea by Frank Fischer (see Der Umblätterer: Vossianische Antonomasie).

First results were presented at the DHd conference in Bern (February 13 to 18, 2017) (abstract and slides, both in German).

© 2008 The New York Times Company, used with permission

Howto

For the English corpus we used POS tagging with NLTK as implemented in vossanto.py (which is run by nyt.py).

Examples (New York Times corpus 1987-2007)

See also:

1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007

1987

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1989

1990

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2007