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公共图书馆1.0:反映出版年份和作者性别人口的维多利亚小说语料库

Common Library 1.0: A Corpus of Victorian Novels Reflecting the Population in Terms of Publication Year and Author Gender

Allen Riddell, Troy J. Bassett, Laura Schneider, Hannah Mills, Amy Yarnell, Rachel Condon, Joseph Bassett, Sara Duke

摘要:

19世纪的图书史、文学社会学和定量文学史的研究因缺乏一本能捕捉文学作品多样性的小说集而受阻。我们介绍了一个语料库的75个维多利亚时代的小说样本从15,322记录的小说书目出版于1837年至1901年在不列颠群岛。这个语料库,公共图书馆,在以下方面是独特的:在语料库中与社会学上重要的子群体相关联的小说的份额与更广泛的人口中的份额相匹配。例如,19世纪80年代女性所写的小说在语料库中的比例与人口中的比例大致相同。虽然我们没有,在这篇特别的论文中,声称语料库是熟悉意义上的代表性样本-如果“可以以已知的准确度从样本中估计出人群中感兴趣的特征”,则样本具有代表性(Lohr 2010,第3页)-我们相信语料库将对研究人员有用。这是因为现有的语料库--通常是方便的样本--与出版小说的数量明显不一致。他们倾向于过度代表特定时期出版的小说和男性小说。公共库可以与这些非代表性的方便语料库一起使用或代替它们。

英文摘要:

Research in 19th-century book history, sociology of literature, and quantitative literary history is blocked by the absence of a collection of novels which captures the diversity of literary production. We introduce a corpus of 75 Victorian novels sampled from a 15,322-record bibliography of novels published between 1837 and 1901 in the British Isles. This corpus, the Common Library, is distinctive in the following way: the shares of novels in the corpus associated with sociologically important subgroups match the shares in the broader population. For example, the proportion of novels written by women in 1880s in the corpus is approximately the same as in the population. Although we do not, in this particular paper, claim that the corpus is a representative sample in the familiar sense--a sample is representative if "characteristics of interest in the population can be estimated from the sample with a known degree of accuracy" (Lohr 2010, p. 3)--we are confident that the corpus will be useful to researchers. This is because existing corpora--frequently convenience samples--are conspicuously misaligned with the population of published novels. They tend to over-represent novels published in specific periods and novels by men. The Common Library may be used alongside or in place of these non-representative convenience corpora.

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