2025-08-04
The Book of Doublends Jined: Parsing Finnegans Wake with ixml
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Balisage: The Markup Conference 2025 (August 2025), Washington, DC, USA
'Finnegans Wake' by James Joyce is probably the hardest book to read in the English language. A principle hurdle is the length and convolutedness of the sentences. This paper reports work-in-progress of an attempt to handle the complexity of 'Finnegans Wake' by parsing the sentences (at a structural, not a semantic level), to reveal their top-level structure. It takes the reader step-by-step through the construction of an ixml grammar for dealing with one chapter of the book.
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Pemberton, S. (2025). The Book of Doublends Jined: Parsing Finnegans Wake with ixml. In Proceedings of Balisage: The Markup Conference. doi:10.4242/BalisageVol30.Pemberton01 |
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