Classwork: students learn how to use DOE and DOE Corpus to search for 'nation-words', thinking about aspects such as date (where it is possible to date the OE text) and type of document (historical, homily, charter, private will) (1 hour) Optional…
Digitizing the Old English Corpus
"In general, optically scanned systems are labor-efficient but introduce a proportion of machine errors, while human entry systems are labor-intensive, and vary in their accuracy depending on the people themsleves. …
How to perform basic DOE Corpus searches finding one word in the corpus, restricting searches to one text or one class of texts, accessing bibliographical information for citations, and including compounds and inflected forms in searches.