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John Ladd
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Assistant Prof @ Washington & Jefferson CIS

Data science, cultural analytics, network analysis, early modern lit, birds

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Thanks! Yes, developing MorphAdorner was the earliest stage of the project (which has had different names over the years). There’ve been lots of transformations and spot-checking since, so the texts themselves are the more authoritative source for spelling variations. morphadorner.northwestern.edu
MorphAdorner
MorphAdorner Home Page
morphadorner.northwestern.edu
September 23, 2025 at 11:23 AM
And for the original question, you can search for any individual word in its regularized form and get all its variant spellings with the EarlyPrint corpus search: eplab.artsci.wustl.edu/blacklab-fro... (Just click on advanced and search under “reg”.)
EarlyPrint Corpus Search search
EarlyPrint Corpus Search provided by the Dutch Language Institute in Leiden.
eplab.artsci.wustl.edu
September 22, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Yes! You can download all of EP’s texts and metadata: earlyprint.org/download/. Our texts on are on Bitbucket instead of GitHub, but they work similarly.
Download
A collaborative effort—centered doubly at Northwestern University and Washington University in St. Louis—to transform the early English print record, from 1473 to the early 1700s, into a linguisticall...
earlyprint.org
September 22, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Reposted by John Ladd
Sep 29: "Human and Machine Intelligence in Networks of Early Modern Print" with John Ladd (@jrladd.com), Assistant Professor in Computing and Information Studies at Washington & Jefferson College. Info/RSVP:
Human and Machine Intelligence in Networks of Early Modern Print
Human and Machine Intelligence in Networks of Early Modern Print
cdh.princeton.edu
September 15, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Glad this is still useful for folks! This is on my feature wishlist for the next iteration of Network Navigator, too (cc @zoeleblanc.bsky.social)
January 16, 2025 at 12:13 AM
🤝🏻 welcome to the club
August 10, 2024 at 1:12 PM