Augustine Farinola
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Yadira Lizama deposited The historical and geographical patterns of the provisions for children in world peace agreements since 1990. on Humanities Commons 5 years, 8 months ago
The objective of this study is to provide a historical and geographical analysis that contributes to the dialogue about the impact of war in children and the actual role of negotiators, mediators, and organizations in the mitigation of these violations. It analyses 1518 world peace agreements, ceasefire agreements, and other related documents such…[Read more]
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Lisa Baer-Tsarfati deposited Word Embedding for the Historian: Employing LSI to Understand How Words Were Historically Used on Humanities Commons 5 years, 8 months ago
Historians are often confronted with the challenge of defining words or ideas in an historically appropriate manner. Language evolves; words lose some meanings and gain others over time, and it is important, when examining the past, for the historian to ensure that their analysis accurately reflects the language in use during the chosen period of…[Read more]
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Kaylin Land deposited Replicating Fortier’s THEME System for Digital Text Analysis on Humanities Commons 5 years, 8 months ago
In 1971, Paul Fortier created a computer program to save significant time in analyzing French literary theme words connected to semantic fields. The system, aptly called THEME, harnessed the capabilities of computer-generated keyword concordances with frequency and distribution calculations to create research reports for user-defined literary…[Read more]
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Yadira Lizama's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 5 years, 8 months ago
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Mark Kaethler deposited “What’s Past Is Prologue: Rewriting and Interfacing Shakespeare in Life Is Strange: Before the Storm” in the group
CSDH-SCHN 2020 on Humanities Commons 5 years, 8 months agoThis conference paper represents a work in progress on interface in the videogame Life Is Strange: Before the Storm’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Tempest. By observing the ways in which the user is able to make Shakespeare’s work their own, this paper argues that the failure and reimagining of the early modern work is celebrated and that in…[Read more]
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Mark Kaethler deposited “What’s Past Is Prologue: Rewriting and Interfacing Shakespeare in Life Is Strange: Before the Storm” on Humanities Commons 5 years, 8 months ago
This conference paper represents a work in progress on interface in the videogame Life Is Strange: Before the Storm’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Tempest. By observing the ways in which the user is able to make Shakespeare’s work their own, this paper argues that the failure and reimagining of the early modern work is celebrated and that in…[Read more]
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Ted Underwood deposited Machine Learning and Human Perspective in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoNumbers appear to have limited value for literary study, since our discipline is usually more concerned to explore differences of interpretation than to describe the objective features of literary works. But it may be time to re-examine the assumption that numbers are only useful for objective description. Machine learning algorithms are actually…[Read more]
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Ted Underwood deposited Machine Learning and Human Perspective in the group
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoNumbers appear to have limited value for literary study, since our discipline is usually more concerned to explore differences of interpretation than to describe the objective features of literary works. But it may be time to re-examine the assumption that numbers are only useful for objective description. Machine learning algorithms are actually…[Read more]
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Ted Underwood deposited Machine Learning and Human Perspective in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoNumbers appear to have limited value for literary study, since our discipline is usually more concerned to explore differences of interpretation than to describe the objective features of literary works. But it may be time to re-examine the assumption that numbers are only useful for objective description. Machine learning algorithms are actually…[Read more]
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Ted Underwood deposited Machine Learning and Human Perspective in the group
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoNumbers appear to have limited value for literary study, since our discipline is usually more concerned to explore differences of interpretation than to describe the objective features of literary works. But it may be time to re-examine the assumption that numbers are only useful for objective description. Machine learning algorithms are actually…[Read more]
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Ted Underwood deposited “Machine Learning and Human Perspective” on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months ago
Numbers appear to have limited value for literary study, since our discipline is usually more concerned to explore differences of interpretation than to describe the objective features of literary works. But it may be time to re-examine the assumption that numbers are only useful for objective description. Machine learning algorithms are actually…[Read more]
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Dibyadyuti Roy's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months ago
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Ted Underwood deposited NovelTM Datasets for English-Language Fiction, 1700-2009 in the group
Victorian Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 3 months agoThis report describes a collection of 210,305 volumes of fiction that researchers are encouraged to borrow for their own work. Alternately, readers can simply browse the report as a description of English-language fiction in HathiTrust Digital Library. For instance, how does the proportion of fiction written by British authors or by women change…[Read more]
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Ted Underwood deposited NovelTM Datasets for English-Language Fiction, 1700-2009 in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 6 years, 3 months agoThis report describes a collection of 210,305 volumes of fiction that researchers are encouraged to borrow for their own work. Alternately, readers can simply browse the report as a description of English-language fiction in HathiTrust Digital Library. For instance, how does the proportion of fiction written by British authors or by women change…[Read more]
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Ted Underwood deposited NovelTM Datasets for English-Language Fiction, 1700-2009 on Humanities Commons 6 years, 3 months ago
This report describes a collection of 210,305 volumes of fiction that researchers are encouraged to borrow for their own work. Alternately, readers can simply browse the report as a description of English-language fiction in HathiTrust Digital Library. For instance, how does the proportion of fiction written by British authors or by women change…[Read more]
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Diane Jakacki deposited REED London Online: Publish|Present|Discover|Read in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoSophisticated digital platforms and infrastructures offer scholarly editors opportunities to make textual materials accessible and negotiable online. Still, we feel pressure to reify the passive reading experience within a web browser. The challenge lies in constructing (or reconstructing) our texts to best provide for dynamic text and data…[Read more]
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Diane Jakacki deposited REED London Online: Publish|Present|Discover|Read in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoSophisticated digital platforms and infrastructures offer scholarly editors opportunities to make textual materials accessible and negotiable online. Still, we feel pressure to reify the passive reading experience within a web browser. The challenge lies in constructing (or reconstructing) our texts to best provide for dynamic text and data…[Read more]
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Diane Jakacki deposited Connecting the Coterie: Linking Women in Early Modern England on Humanities Commons 6 years, 10 months ago
This paper will outline the cultural connections between women that are being brought to light as part of this conversion process. Starting with the concept of women’s “coteries” as small networks that lead to larger examinations of their cultural, intellectual and societal influence. Using HuViz (Humanities Visualizer) to demonstrate the conne…[Read more]
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Diane Jakacki deposited REED London Online: A Year in the Making on Humanities Commons 6 years, 10 months ago
In late 2017 Diane Jakacki was awarded a Mellon/NHPRC Planning Grant for a Records of Early English Drama (REED) Project, focussing on three collections of records from London, England, covering the years 1400-1558. Throughout 2018, the REED London Team has been testing the boundaries of production within the Canadian Writing Research…[Read more]
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Diane Jakacki deposited REED London Online: Publish|Present|Discover|Read on Humanities Commons 6 years, 10 months ago
Sophisticated digital platforms and infrastructures offer scholarly editors opportunities to make textual materials accessible and negotiable online. Still, we feel pressure to reify the passive reading experience within a web browser. The challenge lies in constructing (or reconstructing) our texts to best provide for dynamic text and data…[Read more]
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