Methodology

Abstract

The third chapter focuses on the methodological steps followed in the building of the electronic corpus of 19th-century narrative fiction used for the analysis as well as in the annotation and tagging of this corpus for automatic search. It outlines the parameters for the selection of sample texts and the annotation scheme in a detailed fashion. The chapter further discusses and critically reflects methodological caveats related to the size of the corpus, the selection of texts, and the manual annotation procedure.