Ellen Roberts
PhD studentResearch Interests
My main area of research is historical computational linguistics. My PhD focuses on the linguistic nature of the genre of early modern English dramatic texts.
I am interested in how computational methodologies can be applied to literary (and especially historical) texts. In particular, how these methodologies may aid our understanding of how the language functions in these texts.
External Roles
Research Assistant at the International Multimodal Communication Centre, Oxford: https://imcc.web.ox.ac.uk/people (December 2020-March 2021)
Current Teaching
LING102 - English Language (Lecturer for the grammar block)
LING315 - Forensic Linguistics
'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