Professor Hugh Craig caps a 40 year career as Professor Emeritus
Professor Hugh Craig – a pioneer of the digital humanities in Australia, a generous teacher and mentor and one of… Read more
Centre for Literary and Linguistic Computing (CLLC)
The Centre for Literary and Linguistic Computing (CLLC) was established to continue the development and application of statistical and computing tools for the analysis of (literary) texts.
Centre for Literary and Linguistic Computing is based in the School of Humanities and Social Sciencein the Faculty of Education and Arts, University of Newcastle, some of the centre highlights are;
- Prof. Craig awarded Discovery Grant for 'Folio Shakespeare texts and their Quarto and Octavo antecedents', 2016
- Hosted the Wollombi Seminar for leading international thinkers in Computational Stylistics, 2015
- Emeritus Professor John Burrows presented the Wisbey Lecture in King's College, University of London in September 2006
- In 2004 the group hosted an international conference on humanities computing
- Emeritus Professor John Burrows travelled to New York in June 2001 to receive the 2001 Busa Award
- A Practicable Future for Computing in the Humanities: An International Symposium, The University of Newcastle, July 2001
Centre for Literary and Linguistic Computing members (L to R) Prof Hugh Craig, Naomi Fraser, Dr Elizabeth Spencer, Bill Pascoe and Reuben Ramsay
Current Collaborations
- Priority Research Centre in Bioinformatics "Biomarker discovery and Information-based Medicine – on the classification and description of literary texts using bioinformatics and information theory quantifiers."
- Centre for the Study of Research Training and its Impact (SORTI) "the Stylistics of PhD examination reports."
Students interested in doing postgraduate research in areas covered by the centre should send an email to: research@newcastle.edu.au or visit research higher degrees page.
Some people question whether Shakespeare really wrote the works that bear his name – or whether he even existed at all. Could it be true that the greatest writer in the English language was as fictional as his plays? Natalya St. Clair and Aaron Williams show how a linguistic tool called stylometry might shed light on the answer.
Putting literary analysis to work in the software startup world
Credited with an important Shakespeare discovery, UoN alumni and conjoint member of the Centre for Literary and Linguistic Computing, Dr… Read more
New Federation to bring together stylometry experts from around the world
UON’s Centre for Literary and Linguistic Computing (CLLC) is behind a move to create a new partnership between stylometry labs… Read more
Postdoc uncovering the hidden meanings in religious texts
After completing his first degree in India in computer science, then a PhD in computational stylometry in Malaysia, Ahmad Alqurneh… Read more
Professor Hugh Craig awarded 2016 Discovery Project
Professor Hugh Craig has been awarded a Discovery Projects grant by the Australian Research Council for his project: 'Folio Shakespeare… Read more
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