In my last post, I covered the basics of the New TLG’s Statistics tool. I focused mainly on the author vs. full-corpus statistics. In this post, I finish up with an overview of the remaining information in the author search and delve into the final search option: the lemma statistics.
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Help with Greek Texts: The New TLG, Part 5 (Statistics)
In the last TLG post, I took a look at intertextuality. This week, it’s corpus statistics. I hope everyone is feeling nicely mathematical today.
Help with Greek Texts: The New TLG, Part 4 (N-Grams)
In my last few posts on the New TLG, I’ve mostly covered old tools that have been updated. In this one and the next, I’m going to tackle the TLG’s new statistical analysis tools. If you’re looking for pretty graphs, those will be in the next post. If, on the other hand, you like highlighting, this post is for you! Continue reading
Help with Greek Texts: The New TLG (Advanced Search)
One of our readers asked whether the old TLG’s advanced search functions had transferred to the new interface. The short answer: yes! For the long answer, you’ll have to keep on reading. As an added bonus, with this post the TLG edges ahead of Perseus to become our most-covered classical resource. I think this says something about how classicists work online.
But on to the New TLG!
Help with Greek texts: The New TLG (features)
A few weeks ago, I took a quick spin through the New TLG. In that post, I covered the basics of locating a word, text, or author using basic search functions. That’s all pretty much the same as the old TLG, although the interface is new. This post moves on to some of the New TLG‘s features. Everything I discuss in this post is new, so you won’t find it if you continue to use the old interface. Some of these changes won’t affect advanced TLG users, but novices will find them helpful; others may change how you choose to use the TLG.
Help with Greek Texts: The new TLG (introduction)
The TLG remains one of the most useful Classics tools. Last year, we laid out how to use the ‘classic’ interface in a series of posts. And then (of course!) the site updated, with a completely new look and some new features. In this post, I (re)introduce the features that you’re most likely to use.
Please note: for TLG die-hards, the old TLG is still available! If you are a master at the old site, there’s no need to learn the new one — yet. But most of the features are similar enough that the move won’t hurt.
Quick takes: TLG is updated!
The site now features a new search function, and requires all users to register, even when they are logging in via an institution.
I’ll report back when I’ve played with the new functionality. So far, I have discovered that it’s harder to browse than before, and previous posts on using the TLG may no longer be accurate.
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No good deed
I’m sorry for the delay in posting the next Advanced TLG post. I’ve run into a small technical problem:
After I got that error message a few weeks ago, I waited, cleared my cache, and tried again. Apparently this is a permanent block.
While I investigate, I guess this is a warning to anyone who’d like to copy materials from the TLG into their own work: I started getting this message after copying the references for one definition from the (free and open-access!) LSJ into a Word document for a conference presentation I’m giving. I’ve never had a problem copying texts from the subscriber TLG into my work.
TIP:
Search on the TLG’s much more user-friendly LSJ; copy from the more open-access-friendly Perseus Project.
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Help with Greek texts: TLG Part 3 (Advanced Search)
So far, we’ve covered how to find various texts or words in the TLG. In these last posts, we’re going to examine how to do some things that are a bit more sophisticated: how to find combinations of words, how to find words with variant spellings, and how to save your preferred settings or results to a personal TLG account. This post will tackle just advanced searches, which I discovered was much more complicated than I remembered. So even though I promised that part 3 would be the last … it’s not. Continue reading
Help with Greek Texts: TLG Part 2 (Searching)
In our first post, we covered the basics: how to find a text you already know exists. But sometimes you might need to find texts that you don’t know exist. For this post, we’re tackling intermediate TLG — textual searching. Some reasons you might search the TLG include: Continue reading
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