Fraser Dallachy
Research Associate
Department of Critical Studies
University of Glasgow
United Kingdom
Biography
Fraser Dallachy is currently working as a Research Associate in the Department of Critical Studies
Research Interest
My primary interests are in historical linguistics and the use of corpus linguistic methodologies for research into historical forms of language. I have worked as a Research Associate on the SAMUELS (Semantic Annotation and Mark-Up for Enhancing Lexical Searching) project which integrated the Historical Thesaurus of English into a semantic tagging software pipeline, and on the Linguistic DNA project which is developing a means of automatically identifying the emergence of concepts in historical text. I have additional interests in the physical objects - manuscripts and early printed books - from which we draw our knowledge of historical language, and catalogued the manuscripts and investigated the likely audience of a medieval didactic poem for my PhD research. I am also interested in pragmatics and stylistics particularly in the fields of 'believability', with special interest in the linguistic traits that increase the probability that ideas in texts will either be taken up and passed on, or rejected by their audience.
Publications
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Alexander, M. , Dallachy, F., Piao, S., Baron, A. and Rayson, P. (2015) Metaphor, popular science, and semantic tagging: Distant reading with the Historical Thesaurus of English. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, (
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Fitzmaurice, S. M., Robinson, J., Alexander, M. , Hine, I., Mehl, S. and Dallachy, F. (2017) Linguistic DNA: investigating conceptual change in early modern English discourse. Studia Neophilologica,
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Piao, S., Dallachy, F., Baron, A., Demmen, J., Wattam, S., Durkin, P., McCracken, J., Rayson, P. and Alexander, M. (2017) A time-sensitive historical thesaurus-based semantic tagger for deep semantic annotation. Computer Speech and Language, 46, 113 - 135.
