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    • Of Little Consequence: the Early Career of Thomas Moore 

      Tonra, Justin (2013)
      This paper argues that a narrow focus on Moore's Irishness and Irish writings does not adequately represent his relevance and importance in nineteenth-century literature and culture. It draws attention to the early phase ...
    • Ossian Online: Crowdsourcing Annotation and the Social Edition 

      Barr, Rebecca Anne; Kelly, David; Tonra, Justin (2014)
      This Digital Demo will present Ossian Online, a social edition of the sequence of eighteenth-century works known collectively as the Ossian poems. Initially presented by Scottish writer James Macpherson as fragments of ...
    • Poetry by the Book, Poetry by Numbers 

      Tonra, Justin (2013)
      The mass digitisation of our literary heritage has resulted in both possibilities and problems for the literary scholar. With the availability large-scale literary corpora comes the implicit perception that digital ...
    • Reading Nations, Debating Identities: New Approaches to Macpherson's Ossian 

      Barr, Rebecca Anne; Tonra, Justin (2014)
      Ossian Online is a project which will harness social media and new reading technologies to crowdsource annotations to the sequence of eighteenth-century works known collectively as the Ossian poems. The project will ...
    • Using Distributional Semantics to Trace Influence and Imitation in Romantic Orientalist Poetry 

      Aggarwal, Nitish; Tonra, Justin; Buitelaar, Paul (ACL, 2014-08-23)
      In this paper, we investigate whether textual analysis can yield evidence of shared vocabulary orformal textual characteristics in the works of 19th century poets Lord Byron and Thomas Moorein the genre of Romantic ...