Rebecca J Vanderslice

I am currently pursuing an M.A. at the University of Georgia in Linguistics, focusing on Humanities Computing. I am working with MySQL, ASP.NET, C#, XML, XSL to learn new and innovative ways to make data available through the internet and archive language and literature. My advisor is Dr. William A. Kretzschmar, Jr. He is the editor for three Linguistic Atlas Projects which document dialects of English in the United States. I have been working with him on digitizing data from the Roswell, GA interviews and surveys and presenting this data online for browsing and exploration. I will also be work on text-encoding with Dr. Amanda Gailey, who co-edits Race and Children's Literature in the Gilded Age and has also contributed to numerous digital projects in her career.
I recieved my undergraduate degree from UGA in Foreign Language Education in French and taught high school French courses for a few years before returning to UGA for my Masters degree.

Research Projects

Enron email analysis. For a corpus analysis class, we looked at the language of Enron corporate culture through the text in a dataset of emails that the U.S. government released during its investigation into the company. More information and resources related to this dataset can be accessed from Carnegie Melon University.

Roswell website.

Uncle Remus and Brer Rabbit. From creating a schema for the document, encoding the text according to TEI guidelines and encorporating tags from CBML, we created a digital representation of Uncle Remus and Brer Rabbit by Joel Chandler Harris. This text is included in the archive of Race and Children's Literature in the Gilded Age.