The two projects subsidised through the Leiden University Centre for Digital Humanities Small Grant are nearly finished, and the grant webpage of the overarching project entitled ‘D or t? Using Big Data to Explore Linguistic Factors in Dutch Verb Spelling’ has been updated accordingly.
Using big data, we were able to enhance the academic knowledge of two specific factors in verb-spelling errors and to offer evidence-based solutions to long-lasting and persistent problem in Dutch language education.
In this interdisciplinary project, combining the disciplines of Dutch
Linguistics and Digital Humanities, two student assistants will
search, index and read available literature on Dutch verb spelling,
and they will use and evaluate methodologies from the domain of
Digital Humanities to explore a dataset of 6 million verb-spelling
answers collected by the first supervisor through the non-profit
website Gespeld.nl since 2013.
I’m grateful to Digital Humanities, look forward to working together with two students on the project and by doing so, I hope to enhance our knowledge of spelling difficulties in Dutch verb spelling using data-driven techniques and big-data statistics on data from Gespeld.
