Ellen Roberts
PhD studentResearch Interests
My main area of research is computational linguistics. My submitted PhD thesis focuses on the linguistic variation in early modern English dramatic genres.
I am interested in how computational and corpus methodologies can be applied to literary (and especially historical) texts. In particular, my research focuses on the robustness/replicability of these digital methods, how these methodologies may aid our understanding of how language varies in texts, and how the methods may be implemented across different software.
External Roles
Research Assistant at the International Multimodal Communication Centre, Oxford: https://imcc.web.ox.ac.uk/people (December 2020-March 2021)
Jingle jangle fallacies: observations and learnings from a replication of Biber (1988)
Oral presentation
'Is it not a Comontie?' initial findings from a comparison of genre and linguistic variation in the First Folio
Invited talk
“It is magnificent; but is it English?’: Milton’s Neologisms and the Oxford English Dictionary
Oral presentation
Using Methods from Corpus Linguistics on Historical Texts, Data Visualization
Business Course/Training
'The Horse, the Ass, and the Mule': a linguistic analysis of the context, development, and mixing of early modern English dramatic genres
Oral presentation
'Is this a tagger I see before me?': annotation in corpus linguistics
Invited talk