Harri Siirtola

List of John Benjamins publications for which Harri Siirtola plays a role.

Articles

Säily, Tanja, Turo Vartiainen, Harri Siirtola and Terttu Nevalainen 2024 Changing styles of letter-writing? Evidence from 400 years of early English letters in a POS-tagged corpusUnlocking the History of English: Pragmatics, prescriptivism and text types, Caon, Luisella, Moragh S. Gordon and Thijs Porck (eds.), pp. 154–179 | Chapter
We analyse the social embedding of stylistic change in the frequencies of nouns, lexical verbs and personal pronouns in the Corpora of Early English Correspondence from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century. Our visualization methods show that the frequency of nouns exhibits a consistent… read more
Säily, Tanja, Turo Vartiainen and Harri Siirtola 2017 Exploring part-of-speech frequencies in a sociohistorical corpus of EnglishExploring Future Paths for Historical Sociolinguistics, Säily, Tanja, Arja Nurmi, Minna Palander-Collin and Anita Auer (eds.), pp. 23–52 | Chapter
We investigate the usefulness of part-of-speech (POS) annotation as a tool in the study of sociolinguistic variation and genre evolution. We analyse how POS ratios change over time in the Parsed Corpus of Early English Correspondence (c.1410–1681), which social groups lead the changes, and whether… read more
Siirtola, Harri, Tanja Säily, Terttu Nevalainen and Kari-Jouko Räihä 2014 Text Variation Explorer: Towards interactive visualization tools for corpus linguisticsInternational Journal of Corpus Linguistics 19:3, pp. 417–429 | Article
This paper reviews the gap between current methods of text visualization and the needs of corpus-linguistic research, and introduces a tool that takes a step towards bridging that gap. Current text visualization methods tend to treat the problem as a data-encoding issue only, and do not strive for… read more