Reading the Text's Mind:
Lemmatisation and Interpretation from a Peircean Perspective

CHWP A.3, publ. March 1996. © Editors of CHWP 1996.

[Abstract / Résumé]

KEYWORDS
computational criticism, lemmatisation, interpretation, Peirce, text, semiotics, theory, terminology, lexicology, type, token, tone, tag, name, naming

Where is the Life we have lost in living?
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?


T.S. Eliot, "Choruses from 'the Rock'"

1. Looking for a metalanguage for computational criticism
2. An analysis of lemmatisation: types, tokens, tones

2.1. Tokens
2.2. Type
2.3. Tones
2.4. Complex signs and terminological conventions
3. Consultation and the meaning of lemmatisation

3.1 The structure of lemmatisation

3.1.1 Tag insertion
3.1.2 Reference of tags
3.1.3 Naming
3.2 Attestation generation
4. Reading the text's mind
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