As part of its contribution to the 1951 Festival of Britain, the Arts Council ran what can be seen in retrospect to be an important playwriting competition. Disregarding the London stage entirely, it invited regional ...As part of its contribution to the 1951 Festival of Britain, the Arts Council ran what can be seen in retrospect to be an important playwriting competition. Disregarding the London stage entirely, it invited regional theatres throughout the UK to put forward nominations for new plays within their repertoire for 1950-1951. Each of the five winning plays would receive, what was then, the substantial sum of ~100. Originality and innovation featured highly amongst the selection criteria, with 40 per cent of the judges＇ marks being awarded for ＂interest of subject matter and inventiveness of treatment＂. This article will assess some of the surprising outcomes of the competition and argue that it served as an important nexus point in British theatrical historiography between two key moments in post-war Britain： the first being the inauguration of the Festival of Britain in 1951, the other being the debut of John Osborne＇s Look Back in Anger in May 1956. The article will also argue that the Arts Council＇s play competition was significant for two other reasons. By circumventing the London stage, it provides a useful tool by which to reassess the state of new writing in regional theatre at the beginning of the 1950s and to question how far received views of parochialism and conservatism held true. The paper will also put forward a case for the competition significantly anticipating the work of George Devine at the English Stage Company, which during its early years established a reputation for itself by heavily exploiting the repertoire of new plays originally commissioned by regional theatres. This article forms part of a five year funded Arts and Humanities Research Council （AHRC） project, ＇Giving Voice to the Nation： The Arts Council of Great Britain and the Development of Theatre and Performance in Britain 1945-1994＇. Details of the Arts Council＇s archvie, which is housed at the Victoria ＆ Albert Museum in London can be found at htto：//www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/wid/ead/acgb/acgbf.html展开更多
In this paper, the authors are presenting the approach to extract the multiword expression （MWEs） from monolingual corpora. It both validates and generates multiword candidates. The multiword expression provides a l...In this paper, the authors are presenting the approach to extract the multiword expression （MWEs） from monolingual corpora. It both validates and generates multiword candidates. The multiword expression provides a list of candidates which are extracted and filtered according to the number of criteria and a set of standard statistical association measures. The generation of the multiword candidates is based on the surface forms, while the validation consists of series of criteria for removing noise using language independent association measures. For generating corpus count, it provides both a corpus indexation facility. Also, this approach allows easy integration with a machine learning tool for thecreation and application of supervised multiword extraction models if annotated data is available. The authors present the use of multiword in a standard configuration, for extracting MWEs from a corpus of general purpose English.展开更多
文摘As part of its contribution to the 1951 Festival of Britain, the Arts Council ran what can be seen in retrospect to be an important playwriting competition. Disregarding the London stage entirely, it invited regional theatres throughout the UK to put forward nominations for new plays within their repertoire for 1950-1951. Each of the five winning plays would receive, what was then, the substantial sum of ~100. Originality and innovation featured highly amongst the selection criteria, with 40 per cent of the judges＇ marks being awarded for ＂interest of subject matter and inventiveness of treatment＂. This article will assess some of the surprising outcomes of the competition and argue that it served as an important nexus point in British theatrical historiography between two key moments in post-war Britain： the first being the inauguration of the Festival of Britain in 1951, the other being the debut of John Osborne＇s Look Back in Anger in May 1956. The article will also argue that the Arts Council＇s play competition was significant for two other reasons. By circumventing the London stage, it provides a useful tool by which to reassess the state of new writing in regional theatre at the beginning of the 1950s and to question how far received views of parochialism and conservatism held true. The paper will also put forward a case for the competition significantly anticipating the work of George Devine at the English Stage Company, which during its early years established a reputation for itself by heavily exploiting the repertoire of new plays originally commissioned by regional theatres. This article forms part of a five year funded Arts and Humanities Research Council （AHRC） project, ＇Giving Voice to the Nation： The Arts Council of Great Britain and the Development of Theatre and Performance in Britain 1945-1994＇. Details of the Arts Council＇s archvie, which is housed at the Victoria ＆ Albert Museum in London can be found at htto：//www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/wid/ead/acgb/acgbf.html
文摘In this paper, the authors are presenting the approach to extract the multiword expression （MWEs） from monolingual corpora. It both validates and generates multiword candidates. The multiword expression provides a list of candidates which are extracted and filtered according to the number of criteria and a set of standard statistical association measures. The generation of the multiword candidates is based on the surface forms, while the validation consists of series of criteria for removing noise using language independent association measures. For generating corpus count, it provides both a corpus indexation facility. Also, this approach allows easy integration with a machine learning tool for thecreation and application of supervised multiword extraction models if annotated data is available. The authors present the use of multiword in a standard configuration, for extracting MWEs from a corpus of general purpose English.
