We consider three major text sources about the Tang Dynasty of China in our experiments that aim to segment text written in classical Chinese. These corpora include a collection of Tang Tomb Biographies, the New Tang Book, and the Old Tang Book. We show that it is possible to achieve satisfactory segmentation results with the deep learning…[Read more]

Supplementary material for the SBL Annual Meeting 2020 talk “The open-cbgm Library: Design and Demonstration.” This document presents a brief introduction to the Coherence-Based Genealogical Method (CBGM), intended to bring newcomers and those in need of a refresher up to speed on the basics of the method. It is divided into sections organized…[Read more]

The invention of the viceroyalty of the New Kingdom of Granada (today Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, and Panama) in 1739 was a response to an economic project of the Spanish monarchy to protect the north of South America from foreign incursions and to extract greater resources for the crown. This project of seeking administrative and geographical…[Read more]

The study of the poetic features of text, especially their rhythmic structure when forming verses, pertains to the different traditions, whose scholars established the rules that might govern poetry. Within this context, the POSTDATA Project formalized a network of ontologies able to express any poetic expression and its analysis at the European…[Read more]

Macroanalysis and machine learning do not only lend themselves to interpreting literature: they can be used to generate literature within the rhetorical affordances of digital technology. With computation, our ability to access and query texts has changed our relationship to them. Engaging digital texts as big data allows one to explore rhetorical…[Read more]

Several theoretical models have been proposed for genre, such as the Aristotelian scholastic taxonomy, the family resemblance and the prototype theory. However, these models lack of empirical applications to real examples of genres. This proposal is the culmination of a series of analysis, presenting a theoretical, computational and visual…[Read more]

Spanish abstract: ‘El juego de Ender’ (1977, 1985) es una de esas ficciones en las que la realidad flojea, donde se circula de modo inesperado o sorpresivo entre niveles de realidad y de representación, donde a veces no queda claro si la acción está transcurriendo en un mundo sólido o en uno virtual, y donde a veces creemos estar en uno y est…[Read more]

This paper discusses the need to preserve interfaces for early DH projects. It is a slightly expanded version of the abstract that will appear in the conference book of abstracts. The full version of the paper has been published by Digital Scholarship in the Humanities at https://academic.oup.com/dsh/articleabstract/…[Read more]

This paper suggests an interactive web-based tool for 3D visualization of information graphs, particularly RDF graphs.

At the 2019 Digital Humanities Conference in Utrecht, the authors launched a survey designed to answer the question “Who Teaches When We Teach DH?”. In this short talk, we will present and discuss some of the findings.

This presentation introduces the Proyecto Humboldt Digital (ProHD), a cooperation project between the Academy of Sciences and Humanities of Berlin-Brandenburg (BBAW, Germany) and the Casa Humboldt of the Office of the Historian of the City of La Havana (OHCH, Cuba). ProHD aims to preserve and provide online access to documents that witness the…[Read more]

Witness testimony provides the first draft of history, and requires a kind of reading that connects descriptions of events from many perspectives and sources. “Reading Certainty” examines one critical step in that process, namely how a group of approximately 230 readers decided whether a statement about an event is credible and factual. That…[Read more]

The paper demonstrates how neurocognitive social psychology can be applied to study human behaviour through literary character analysis with digital tools; and how the digital literary studies in terms of neurocognitive psychology may help develop new models for technology and theories of contemporary science. Based on the theses, the paper…[Read more]

While interdisciplinary research on metaphor is abundant (Eggs, 2000; Semino & Demjén, 2017; Veale et al., 2016), it is still scarce in Digital Humanities. At the intersection of literary studies, corpus stylistics, and digital humanities, we present an exploratory quantitative metaphor analysis of a corpus of German language lay book reviews.…[Read more]