Hugh Craig

An information theoretic clustering approach for unveiling authorship affinities in Shakespearean era plays and poems

Publisher: Public Library of Science (PLoS)

Date: 27-10-2014

DOI: 10.1371/JOURNAL.PONE.0111445

Propositional idea density in older men's written language: Findings from the HIMS study using computerised analysis

Publisher: Informa UK Limited

Date: 12-09-2015

DOI: 10.3109/02699206.2014.956263

Abstract: Decline in linguistic function has been associated with decline in cognitive function in previous research. This research investigated the informativeness of written language s les of Australian men from the Health in Men's Study (HIMS) aged from 76 to 93 years using the Computerised Propositional Idea Density Rater (CPIDR 5.1). In total, 60,255 words in 1147 comments were analysed using a linear-mixed model for statistical analysis. Results indicated no relationship with education level (p = 0.79). Participants for whom English was not their first learnt language showed Propositional Idea Density (PD) scores slightly lower (0.018 per 1 word). Mean PD per 1 word for those for whom English was their first language for comments below 60 words was 0.494 and above 60 words 0.526. Text length was found to have an effect (p = <0.0001). The mean PD was higher than previously reported for men and lower than previously reported for a similar cohort for Australian women.

Open scholarship in Australia: A review of needs, barriers, and opportunities

Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)

Date: 14-01-2021

DOI: 10.1093/LLC/FQAA063

Abstract: Open scholarship encompasses open access, open data, open source software, open educational resources, and all other forms of openness in the scholarly and research environment, using digital or computational techniques, or both. It can change how knowledge is created, preserved, and shared, and can better connect academics with communities they serve. Yet, the movement toward open scholarship has encountered significant challenges. This article begins by examining the history of open scholarship in Australia. It then reviews the literature to examine key barriers h ering uptake of open scholarship, with emphasis on the humanities. This involves a review of global, institutional, systemic, and financial obstacles, followed by a synthesis of how these barriers are influenced at erse stakeholder levels: policymakers and peak bodies, publishers, senior university administrators, researchers, librarians, and platform providers. The review illustrates how universities are increasingly hard-pressed to sustain access to publicly funded research as journal, monograph, and open scholarship costs continue to rise. Those in academia voice concerns about the lack of appropriate open scholarship infrastructure and recognition for the adoption of open practices. Limited access to credible research has led, in some cases, to public misunderstanding about legitimacy in online sources. This article, therefore, represents an urgent call for more empirical research around ‘missed opportunities’ to promote open scholarship. Only by better understanding barriers and needs across the university landscape can we address current challenges to open scholarship so research can be presented in usable and understandable ways, with data made more freely available for reuse by the broader public.

Multiple regression techniques for modelling dates of first performances of Shakespeare-era plays

Publisher: Elsevier BV

Date: 08-2022

DOI: 10.1016/J.ESWA.2022.116903

Changes in the length of speeches in the plays of William Shakespeare and his contemporaries: A mixed models approach

Publisher: Public Library of Science (PLoS)

Date: 21-04-2023

DOI: 10.1371/JOURNAL.PONE.0282716

Abstract: Since 2007 a number of investigators have compiled statistics on the length in words of speeches in plays by William Shakespeare and his contemporaries, focusing on a change to shorter speeches around 1600. In this article we take account of several potentially confounding factors in the variation of speech lengths in these works and present a model of this variation in the period 1538–1642 through Linear Mixed Models. We confirm that the mode of speech lengths in English plays changed from nine words to four words around 1600, and that Shakespeare’s plays fit this wider pattern closely. We establish for the first time: that this change is independent of authorship, dramatic genre, theatrical company, and the proportion of verse in a play’s dialogue that the chosen time span can be segmented into pre-1597 plays (with high modes), 1597–1602 plays (with mixed high and low modes), and post-1602 plays (with low modes) that some additional secondary modes are evident in speech lengths, at 16 and 24 words, suggesting that the length of a standard blank verse line (around 8 words) is an underlying unit in speech length and that the general change to short speeches also holds true when the data is viewed through the perspective of the median and the mean. The change in speech lengths is part of a collective drift in the plays towards liveliness and verisimilitude and is evidence of a hitherto hidden constraint on the playwrights: whether or not they were aware of the fact, playwrights as a group were conforming to a structure for the distribution of speech lengths peculiar to the era they were writing in. The authors hope that the full modelling of this variation in the article will help bring this change to the attention of scholars of Shakespeare and his contemporaries.

Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0880351

Start Date: 2008

End Date: 12-2011

Amount: $172,986.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP120101955

Start Date: 2012

End Date: 06-2015

Amount: $160,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP160101527

Start Date: 01-2016

End Date: 12-2018

Amount: $192,645.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0344785

Start Date: 2003

End Date: 06-2006

Amount: $109,008.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment And Facilities - Grant ID: LE210100021

Start Date: 08-2021

End Date: 12-2023

Amount: $440,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment And Facilities - Grant ID: LE190100019

Start Date: 10-2019

End Date: 03-2021

Amount: $420,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Special Research Initiatives - Grant ID: SR0354848

Start Date: 03-2004

End Date: 12-2004

Amount: $20,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment And Facilities - Grant ID: LE230100079

Start Date: 03-2023

End Date: 06-2024

Amount: $472,543.00

Funder: Australian Research Council