Encoding Cryptic Crossword Clues with TEI

The cryptic crossword is a highly sophisticated and challenging type of intellectual puzzle that has been a daily feature of British newspapers for nearly a century, and yet the culture and traditions surrounding it have received little scholarly attention. This article outlines a short history of t...

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Autor principal:	Martin Holmes
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Materias:	cryptic crosswords analysis and interpretation Computer engineering. Computer hardware TK7885-7895
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:af37a0d830c4484cb101bec7a293b1392021-12-02T11:28:56ZEncoding Cryptic Crossword Clues with TEI2162-560310.4000/jtei.2222https://doaj.org/article/af37a0d830c4484cb101bec7a293b1392019-08-01T00:00:00Zhttp://journals.openedition.org/jtei/2222https://doaj.org/toc/2162-5603The cryptic crossword is a highly sophisticated and challenging type of intellectual puzzle that has been a daily feature of British newspapers for nearly a century, and yet the culture and traditions surrounding it have received little scholarly attention. This article outlines a short history of the cryptic crossword and explains how cryptic clues work. I argue that cryptic crossword clues have a great deal in common with poetry, and that we have much to learn from their structure. Many cryptic clues depend for their effect on confusing the solver through the use of overlapping syntactic and semantic hierarchies, so they serve as evidence that overlapping hierarchies are not merely an unfortunate limitation afflicting XML languages but are psychologically and linguistically real. Finally, I present a TEI schema and an approach to encoding the components of cryptic crossword clues in a way that enables algorithmic analysis of trends, features, and clue types, with a view to creating a historical corpus of encoded clues which will illuminate the evolution of the tradition.Martin HolmesOpenEditionarticlecryptic crosswordsanalysis and interpretationComputer engineering. Computer hardwareTK7885-7895DEENESFRITJournal of the Text Encoding Initiative, Vol 12 (2019)
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description	The cryptic crossword is a highly sophisticated and challenging type of intellectual puzzle that has been a daily feature of British newspapers for nearly a century, and yet the culture and traditions surrounding it have received little scholarly attention. This article outlines a short history of the cryptic crossword and explains how cryptic clues work. I argue that cryptic crossword clues have a great deal in common with poetry, and that we have much to learn from their structure. Many cryptic clues depend for their effect on confusing the solver through the use of overlapping syntactic and semantic hierarchies, so they serve as evidence that overlapping hierarchies are not merely an unfortunate limitation afflicting XML languages but are psychologically and linguistically real. Finally, I present a TEI schema and an approach to encoding the components of cryptic crossword clues in a way that enables algorithmic analysis of trends, features, and clue types, with a view to creating a historical corpus of encoded clues which will illuminate the evolution of the tradition.
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Encoding Cryptic Crossword Clues with TEI

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