The computational affordances of digital tools and methods have enabled new avenues of research in translation studies, allowing scholars to examine translation decisions at scale through the creation and analysis of parallel corpora.

This paper will focus on multiple French translation of Ann M. Martin’s series, The Baby-Sitters Club. This s…[Read more]

Mood boards are a collection of images that support design activities. They are a standard tool in the designer’s toolbox, often used for the design team to explore the problem being solved, the user context and a means of setting the aesthetic tone for the project. The content of mood boards can vary widely, from colour ideas to abstract p…[Read more]

Cantillation notes (“taamim” or “trop”) direct readers of the Hebrew Bible as to how to chant the text, and serve as a form of syntactic and logical commentary on the text and can be deduced using machine learning and Neural Networks.

Cantillation notes (“taamim” or “trop”) direct readers of the Hebrew Bible as to how to chant the text, and serve as a form of syntactic and logical commentary on the text that can be deduced using neural networks and machine learning.

This study will assess the role of social media in the construction of social and community identity. The study is based on the Nyishi community, one of the indigenous communities from Arunachal Pradesh, the North-eastern state of India. I am keenly interested in the participation of Nyishi people on Facebook because most of the people from this…[Read more]

The Hebrew Biblical corpus is composed of text of different genres. There are narrative sections, genealogical accounts, poetry, commands as to daily and seasonal ritual practices, legal systems, details of sacrifices, and instructions on how to construct the Tabernacle. The content, and often style, of each of these differs from the others, and…[Read more]

This paper introduces Spyral Notebooks, a notebook environment that extends Voyant Tools and offers a space for both notating and presenting analysis and for developing JavaScript code that extends Voyant. In the paper we present the design justifications for Spyral, showcase some of the analytical possibilities of Spyral, and address recent…[Read more]

In this presentation we discuss one approach to studying historical change in a large document archive, The Old Bailey Proceedings Online. In addition to the texts themselves, we are working with two kinds of representation. The first is a set of XML tags that were added to the trial accounts when the digital archive was created. Since these tags…[Read more]

As Mika Wusterland demonstrates, popular discourses around deepfakes are primarily concerned with the ability to create a historical event that can pass as “real” (39). Yet, as Vivian Sobchak argues, “the ‘events’ of the twentieth century are less inherently novel than the novel technologies of representations that have transformed ‘events’”…[Read more]

Medicine has long framed race relations in the Caribbean-that basin where African and European cultures have met from the beginning of the Colonial Period to the twentieth century. Whether Sir Hans Sloane, founder of the British Museum and President of the Royal Society of London, who as a physician wrote about African medical beliefs and…[Read more]

In this presentation, we will elaborate on the insights that have gathered from our partnership with Iter Canada towards establishing a robust ecosystem for the long-term preservation of collaborative projects in the arts and humanities. As a work in progress, planning to address the current gap in preservation research affecting a specific…[Read more]

En 1974 la administración del Partido Popular bajo el gobernador Rafael Hernández Colon adquirió exitosamente la Puerto Rico Telephone Company (PRTC), cuyo dueño previo había sido el conglomerado International Telephone and Telegraph (ITT.). El estudio busca entender las causas y consecuencias de lo que se consideró ser un cambio monumental en la…[Read more]