Taxonomy for hierarchy in corpus linguistics
Posted: July 4th, 2019, 7:26 pm
Hi All,
This might be slightly OT for the forum but I thought I would try in case anyone has ideas.
I'm looking for ideas for naming of different levels of enclosure in a hierarchy of texts.
I am cutting some code that works on data from GNT, LXX, Philo etc. and I am needing to name stuff sensibly.
I am thinking that the properly speaking GNT and LXX and collections rather than a single work. So also the pseudepigrapha. So working up from the below and ignoring such things as character, phoneme and so on, one could posit.
Section (which could be verse, pericope, chapter depending upon preference etc).
Book (Life by Josephus, Acts by Luke etc. etc.)
Collection (a badly overloaded term I want to replace here) (say, GNT, LXX)
Corpus (a collection of works brought together according to some standard or rule - say type of language, author, age, etc.
Archive (a collection (told you collection was overloaded) of works (whatever a work is ?), across time, languages, types of work and so on - very large.
Archive and Corpus as used here come from stuff I've read in O'Donnell. Feel free to rip up and redo the lot if you want.
But primarily I am interested in finding a term, preferably having some currency in current research for the level at which LXX, GNT, Works of Josephus lie.
Thx
D
This might be slightly OT for the forum but I thought I would try in case anyone has ideas.
I'm looking for ideas for naming of different levels of enclosure in a hierarchy of texts.
I am cutting some code that works on data from GNT, LXX, Philo etc. and I am needing to name stuff sensibly.
I am thinking that the properly speaking GNT and LXX and collections rather than a single work. So also the pseudepigrapha. So working up from the below and ignoring such things as character, phoneme and so on, one could posit.
Section (which could be verse, pericope, chapter depending upon preference etc).
Book (Life by Josephus, Acts by Luke etc. etc.)
Collection (a badly overloaded term I want to replace here) (say, GNT, LXX)
Corpus (a collection of works brought together according to some standard or rule - say type of language, author, age, etc.
Archive (a collection (told you collection was overloaded) of works (whatever a work is ?), across time, languages, types of work and so on - very large.
Archive and Corpus as used here come from stuff I've read in O'Donnell. Feel free to rip up and redo the lot if you want.
But primarily I am interested in finding a term, preferably having some currency in current research for the level at which LXX, GNT, Works of Josephus lie.
Thx
D