Home
 

Resources and Links

Resources
A range of resources including information about text analysis, the TAPoR workshop, electronic text collections, and journals in the field of digital arts.

Quick Links


Rotating Featured Project      

The Atlas of Alberta Railways

Atlas of Alberta Railway

Experimental Reading Workshop

Experimental Reading Workshop

Local Culture and Diversity on the Prairies

Local Culture

Wenzhou Spoken Corpus

WenZhou

The Coleridge Project

Coleridge

ICE-CANADA

ICE

Very Large Internet Language Corpus

Cyrus & Chris

The American National Corpus Concordance

ANC

The Dinka Project

Dinka

The Modern Arthur: A Bibliography of Arthuriana, 1500-2000

Arthurian Bibliography

Canadian Review of Comparative Literature

Canadian Review of Comparative Literature

Felynx Cougati Multi Media Math Project

Felynx Cougati

A Hypertext Edition of John Lydgate's "Edmund and Fremund"

Lydgate

FolkwaysAlive!

FolkwaysAlive!

The Kinji Imanishi Archive Database Project

Imanishi

Le Patron

Le Patron

Ukrainian Folklore Sound Recordings

Three Women

Northern Voices in Environmental Impact Assessment

Seismic lines

Dynamic Text

Electronic New Variorum Shakespeare


Published Projects

The University of Alberta TAPoR Node is proud to have worked in conjunction with exceptional researchers to produce and publish the following completed (though often still evolving) projects:


TAPoR Canada

Project information:

Other nodes:


© 2004-2008 TAPoR @ UAlberta
Copyright and privacy statement


Welcome to TAPoR @ UAlberta!


TAPoR is the Text Analysis Portal for Research, a collaboration by six Canadian universities to build a centralized gateway to representative texts and sophisticated text analysis tools. The computing infrastructure is available to host and support research projects using text, text encoding, text transformation, and XML technologies. For more information on the TAPoR in Canada initiative, please consult our TAPoR Canada page.

TAPoR @ UAlberta is a hub for text-based computing research in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Alberta. Associated projects use TAPoR's significant computing resources, including a high performance server and a computer workshop. (See a diagram of our servers). The TAPoR workshop, located in Arts 434, houses eight high-end networked computers, a comprehensive selection of software, and relevant equipment. Our staff includes a Systems Administrator and Applications Developer, a Database Analyst, and talented Research Assistants.

The Research Director for TAPoR @ UAlberta is John Newman.
printable summary



Most Recent TAPoR UAlberta Newsletter

Newsletter 3.1 - September 2008


TaporTalks

The Canadian Institute for Research in Computing and the Arts and TAPoR are sponsoring a Humanities Computing Research Colloquium at the University of Alberta. Here is the Fall schedule. Locations, Titles and Abstracts will follow. Colloquium Series for 2009 - 2010

Teresa Dobson, University of British Columbia
Title: The Role of Multimedia Literature in Critical Literary Education

Abstract: It is arguable that some of the most innovative text experiments online-ones that truly push the boundaries of established conventions of writing, and that work to explore the particular affordances of digital media-have occurred in creative contexts where the literary and design communities converge with a view to generating alternate, innovative, multimedia forms. One such form is electronic literature, which is defined by the Electronic Literature Organization as a class of "works with important literary aspects that take advantage of the capabilities and contexts provided by the stand-alone or networked computer" (ELO, 2006, n.p.). E-literature includes genres such as hypertext fiction, reactive poetry, blog novels, Flash fiction and poetry, generative art, installation, code poetry, and so on. This presentation considers the features of multimedia literary forms through an examination of two examples and contemplates the value of these innovative texts for critical literary education.

Mark Davies, Professor of (Corpus) Linguistics, Brigham Young University
Title: Using robust corpora to examine genre-based variation and recent historical shifts in English

Abstract: We'll use data from a number of different corpora that we've created to look at change and variation in English. The corpora include the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA: 400+ million words, 1990-2009+), the TIME Corpus of Historical American English (100 million words, 1920s-2000s), the BYU-OED Corpus (37 million words; Old English - Present Day English) and the BYU-BNC Corpus (UK, 1980s-1993). We'll look at the range of queries afforded by these corpora (lexical, semantic, morphological, and semantic), as well as how they are made possible by the corpus architecture. We'll also briefly consider some design issues, such as genre representation and copyright issues.

Sandra Gabriele
Title: Visual Differentiation in Look-alike Medication Names: Evaluating design in context

Abstract: The aim of this study is to evaluate ways that visual communication design, and more specifically, typography, can be used to help combat the problem of medication errors that occur during the medication process due to the confusion between pairs of look-alike (orthographically similar) medication names. Methods and results from a smaller study were revisited to inform the design of this larger study. Nursing and pharmacy participants will help determine the effectiveness of changing the visual appearance of part of a look-alike name to help distinguish it from its look-alike counterpart. Names will be evaluated with in contexts that simulate situations found in a hospital setting - shelf labeling, electronic patient charts and medication labeling - thus making the results useful to current practices in healthcare.

Information about previous speakers and materials from their presentations may be found in the archive.


TAPoR Portal 2 Released

The Public Release 2 of the TAPoR Portal is now ready for use. The portal collects and integrates Resources, Tools, and News from all of the Canadian TAPoR sites. Users comments and feedback are welcome. Please login at and request a userid and password.

TAPoR portal

Alberta News

Under revision

TAPoR News

> Dictionary of Words in the Wild Passes 5000
Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:09:11 EST
The Dictionary of Words in the Wild has passed 5000 images contributed by participants! Join up and add your own...
> Digital Studies
Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:36:18 EST
Announcing Digital Studies / Le champ numérique, a refereed academic journal, publishing three times a ye...
> API Workshop
Mon, 19 Oct 2009 09:58:07 EDT
William Turkel organized a successful API Workshop October 16-17, funded by S...
> Second Humanities Computing Colloquium
Fri, 09 Oct 2009 10:56:31 EDT
Mark Davies from Bringham Young is the second speaker in the TAPoR/CIRCA Humanities Co...
> American Association of Corpus Linguistics Conference
Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:13:54 EDT
The AACL 2009 Conference will be held at the University of Alberta this October 9-11. Stéfan Sinclair...

show all tapor news
 
show what the RSS news feed looks like

CaSTA Conferences

Upcoming:

Previous: