The CLiGS Textbox: Building and Using Collections of Literary Texts in Romance Languages Encoded in TEI XML

Abstract

The CLiGS textbox is published by the Computational Literary Genre Stylistics (CLiGS) group. The textbox is the group's publication channel for several collections of literary texts. We describe the rationale for the manner in which the collections of literary texts included in the textbox have been compiled, annotated, and published. Furthermore, we suggest several ways in which the text collections can be used for research in literary studies. We aim to document some of the work of the CLiGS group, to showcase the unique TEI XML-based collections of French, Spanish, Spanish-American, and Portuguese novels and French drama we make available, and to encourage reuse of

The Novel in the Spanish Silver Age

“…This practical experience with different techniques gave us the opportunity to work on shared projects exploring several questions, from which, ultimately, my own research benefited. Some of the most relevant to this publication works of the group are about the development of topics over text in different genres , the neutralization of the authorial signal for genre clustering , the use of sentiment analysis for genre classification (Henny-Krahmer 2018), the application of the theory of prototypes in classification tasks (Henny-Krahmer et al 2018), or 2.2 Genre in Digital Humanities: Methods, Features, and Data Representation the publication of several literary corpora in Romance languages (Schöch et al 2019).…”

“…A section of the CoNSSA was made available in early phases of the project as a part of the textbox, a series of corpora in French, Spanish, Ital-ian, and Portuguese. See Schöch et al (2019) for a description of the corpora and Calvo Tello, Henny-Krahmer, and Schöch (2018) for several comparative analyses.…”