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Just published @DSHjournal: "‘The Michael Jordan of greatness’—Extracting #VossianAntonomasia from two decades of The New York Times, 1987–2007" – DOI: doi.org/10.1093/llc/fq… – Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/1902.06428 – with Robert Jäschke @IBI_HU. #DigitalHumanities @nytimes
Blogpost with some background: "#VossianAntonomasia in 'The New York Times'" weltliteratur.net/vossian-antono…

We also just published a website with some more data to explore: vossanto.weltliteratur.net @nytimes
For example, here's a complete list of all 2,646 extracted #VossianAntonomasia expressions from 20 years of @nytimes (1987–2007), ranging from "the Madonna of college football" to "the Marco Polo of baseball": vossanto.weltliteratur.net/theof/humans/v…
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