We present two comparable diachronic corpora of scientific English and German from the
Late Modern Period (17th c.–19th c.) annotated with Universal Dependencies. We describe …

This study intends to describe the diachronic changes of linguistic complexity (ie, overall,
morphological, and syntactic complexity) in scientific writing based on Kolmogorov …

This study presents an analysis of diachronic linguistic changes in English scientific writing,
utilizing surprisal from transformer-based language models. Unlike traditional n-gram …

In this chapter, we discuss some common pitfalls related to historical data and its use in
linguistic analysis. We argue that the “philologist's dilemma”, as originally proposed by …

This paper focusses on the role of initialisms in scientific English articles in the Royal Society
Corpus (Fischer et al. 2020; Kermes et al. 2016). The development of scientific initialisms is …

Tracing the influence of individuals or groups in social networks is an increasingly popular
task in sociolinguistic studies. While methods to determine someone's influence in shortterm …

Scientific writing is assumed to have become more informationally dense over time
(Halliday, 1988; Biber and Gray, 2016). By means of fractal analysis, we study whether over …

This chapter demonstrates how the Royal Society Corpus, a richly annotated corpus of
around 48,000 English scientific journal articles covering more than 330 years, can be used …

The aim of this thesis is to show that both scientific English and German have become
increasingly optimized for scientific communication from 1650 to 1900 by adapting the …

Metadata are key components of language resources and facilitate their exploitation and re-
use. Their creation is a labour intensive process and requires a modeling step, which …