Lexicon Libraries

Overview

ePADD supports thematic keyword searching of email archives using lexicons, aiding the user in screening email for potentially sensitive information, as well as offering new ways to analyze and visualize the archive. The Lexicon Working Group explores the potential of lexicons to improve workflows in ePADD. Although ePADD currently ships with several lexicons, and they are fully customizable, there is room to both improve the current offerings, as well as generate and provide public access to additional lexicons geared towards meeting community needs. The Lexicon Working Group group was created to identify and help meet those needs.

We invite you to contribute lexicons for community use/reuse! Lexicons can be submitted as simple text files, or marked up with user comment (as in the example below). Please submit lexicons or related queries to epadd_project@stanford.edu.

Lexicon Libraries

The complete directory of lexicons can be browsed here. Do you see a lexicon below that you would like to incorporate in your workflow? Please see the Lexicon Installation ReadMe or the ePADD User Guide for information on installing lexicons within ePADD. (Note that terms can also simply be cut-and-pasted into new or existing lexicons within the ePADD application).

Sensitive lexicon

An English language lexicon that can assist users in identifying sensitive, restricted, or legally-protected information across an email corpus.

Sentiment lexicon

An English-language lexicon that supports sentiment analysis of an email corpus.

General lexicon

An English-language lexicon that highlights various general categories of information in an email corpus, useful for getting started on identifying appropriate categories for a particular collection.

Persona lexicon - Writer for Theater

An English-language lexicon to assist with analyzing an email corpus associated with a writer for theatrical performances (including a lyricist, screen writer, playwright, or librettist). Contributed by Susan Malsbury and Diana Bertolini, New York Public Library.

Persona lexicon - Composer

An English-language lexicon to assist with analyzing an email corpus associated with a musical composer. Note that composition here refers to the process of creating a work from ideation to completion. Contributed by Susan Malsbury and Matt Snyder, New York Public Library.

Persona lexicon - Author

An English-language lexicon to assist with analyzing an email corpus associated with an author. Contributed by Elvira Arroya-Ramirez, Princeton University.

Persona lexicon - Faculty

An English-language lexicon to assist with analyzing an email corpus associated with a faculty member. Contributed by Laura Uglean Jackson, University of California, Irvine.

Persona lexicon (Sensitive) - Academic Administrator

An English-language lexicon to assist with analyzing an email corpus associated with an academic administrator. Contributed by Matthew Farrell and Tracy Jackson, Duke University.

Persona lexicon - Journalist / Activist

An English-language lexicon to assist with analyzing an email corpus associated with a particular journalist/activist, providing an example of using the lexicon to bring together terms that may be specific to a particular collection. Contributed by Kate Tasker, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Persona lexicon - Environmental Artist

An English-language lexicon to assist with analyzing an email corpus associated with an environmental artist, providing an example of using the lexicon to bring together terms that may be specific to a particular collection. In this case, the focus is on highlighting specific projects. Contributed by Freya Channing, Stanford University.

Persona lexicon - Microbiologist

An English-language lexicon to assist with analyzing an email corpus associated with microbiologist Carl Woese, providing an example of using the lexicon to bring together terms that may be specific to a particular collection. Contributed by Bethany Anderson, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.