Abstract
Abstract This article provides an introduction to the web application Evoke. This application offers functionality to navigate, view, extend, and analyse thesaurus content. The thesauri that can be navigated in Evoke are expressed in Linguistic Linked Data, an interoperable data form that enables the extension of thesaurus content with custom labels and allows for the linking of thesaurus content to other digital resources. As such, Evoke is a powerful research tool that facilitates its users to perform novel cultural linguistic analyses over multiple sources. This article further demonstrates the potential of Evoke by discussing how A Thesaurus of Old English was made available in the application and how this has already been adopted in the field of Old English studies. Lastly, the author situates Evoke within a number of recent developments in the field of Digital Humanities and its applications for onomasiological research.
Highlights
Vocabulary has been described as “a very sensitive index of the culture of a people” (Sapir, 1963: 27)
The semantic hierarchy of a thesaurus allows users to move from meaning to lexical item. This process can be illustrated with A Thesaurus of Old English, which allows users to look up early medieval English words by means of its semantic hierarchy
The first lexicographic resource made available in Evoke as Linguistic Linked Data (LLD) is A Thesaurus of Old English ( TOE)
Summary
Vocabulary has been described as “a very sensitive index of the culture of a people” (Sapir, 1963: 27). When a user selects a semantic concept of a thesaurus for viewing, a list of words that express that concept is retrieved For each of those words, their IRI (i.e., their identifier) is subsequently used to collect all via free access figure 1 Sources of data that Evoke retrieves and presents associated labels available across the datasets – whether they are part of the original thesaurus data or a set of annotations created by others. Each word sense listed indicates the part of speech, language (i.e., Old English in A Thesaurus of Old English) and any labels that are applicable either to this particular sense or, more generically, the dictionary entry of the word (e.g., “poetry”) Any of these elements can be clicked for viewing instead of the semantic concept currently shown, utilizing the underlying Linked Data mechanisms. A table containing summary statistics (average, median, and domain and range of the chart) is available through the button ‘show summary’, located in the top right corner
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