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Scott Weingart deposited Digits: Two Reports on New Units of Scholarly Publication on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months ago
The Digits team (Matt Burton, Matthew J. Lavin, Jessica Otis, and Scott B. Weingart) convened around the question of how we might share, preserve, and legitimize scholarship freed from the affordances of print. For the A.W. Mellon-funded Digits Planning Grant (2016-2018), the PIs had three goals:
– Investigate the use of software containers for…[Read more]
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CHAO-LIN LIU deposited When Classical Chinese Meets Machine Learning: Explaining the Relative Performances of Word and Sentence Segmentation Tasks on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months ago
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]
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Florian Windhager deposited Reassembling Elephants: A Multi-Spatiotemporal Visualization Method for History and Humanities Data in the group
Museums on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoWhen engaging in the visual analysis and communication of cultural collections and other types of complex historical data, scholarly or public audiences rarely get to see their multidimensional richness. Commonly, visualization tools require analysts to selectively ‘cut’ into the complexity of the data to highlight and project particular asp…[Read more]