The weblog Computer-Assisted Language Comparison in Practice, published on the Hypotheses platform for scientific blogging, offers tutorials and discussion notes on computer-assisted approaches to the history and diversity of languages. A substantial part of its content is contributed as part of the ERC Starting Grant “Computer-Assisted Language C…[Read more]

This work presents an accuracy study of the open source OCR engine, Kraken, on the leading Arabic scholarly journal, al-Abhath. In contrast with other commercially available OCR engines, Kraken is shown to be capable of producing highly accurate Arabic-script OCR. The study also assesses the relative accuracy of typeface-specific and generalized…[Read more]

Spanish abstract: El inmaterialismo del siglo XVIII nos enseñó que el mundo que habitamos no es de naturaleza física sino básicamente informacional o semiótica. Yendo más allá del constructivismo psicológico y de la fenomenología, nos sugieren Berkeley y otros que el mundo es una construcción mental—que habitamos, sin sospecharlo, en una realida…[Read more]

Tucker Carlson interviews Dr. Peter McCullough (May 2021) – On the mismanagement of the Covid pandemic, on the suppression of early treatment for Covid, and on the mistaken or corrupt medical protocols and the shady policies surrounding the promotion Covid-19 “vaccines”. (Transcribed by José Angel García Landa at Ibercampus, June 6, 2021)

Este ensayo entra en el debate en España sobre el alcance que tuvo, entre 1920 y 1239, una posible “vanguardia arquitectónica”. Identificando “van­guardia” con “modernidad” y confundiendo lo que pudo ser un debate teórico con “signos” de los nuevos tiempos, la mayoría de lo que ya se ha escrito sobre el tema queda patente como fueron muchos temp…[Read more]

Historical language comparison for the purpose of identifying cognates and sound correspondences in multilingual wordlists which can later be used to infer phylogenetic trees can be conveniently carried out in a framework of computer-assisted language comparison (see http://calc.digling.org), using tools for automatic inference, like LingPy…[Read more]

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O trabalho apresenta o resultado de um estudo empírico com o objetivo de analisar a produção do XX Encontro Nacional de Pesquisa e Pós-Graduação em Ciência da Informação de 2019 a fim de perceber os temas mais recorrentes a partir da análise textual dos resumos dos artigos. A amostra analisada consiste em 488 artigos distribuídos em 11 grupos de…[Read more]

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The Irish Sea which separates Great Britain and Ireland has often been written about in terms of divisions, threats, and hazards. Facing each other across that sea, the coast of Wales and Ireland’s eastern seaboard have a more complex story to tell, one characterised by intimate if troubled lines of connection. A place of passage for centuries, t…[Read more]

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In a recent issue of the Journal of Language Evolution, Syrjänen et al. (2021) investigate the suitability of computing Cummins and McInerney’s (2011) TIGER rates for estimating the tree-likeness of linguistic datasets compiled for phylogenetic reconstruction. The authors test the TIGER rates on a diverse sample of simulated data, which by and lar…[Read more]

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This editorial discusses the articles published and the activities undertaken by The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship during 2021, and calls for research system-wide cultural changes and wider contextual awareness in order to make scholarly communication fairer and up to the challenges of our time.

Bios and recent work of the participants for the 2022 MLA Roundtable “Recreations of Literature and Theatre in Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality” scheduled to take place on January 6, 2022.

This digital anthology was created by students in Honors 120: Questions and the Spirit of Inquiry, taught by Dr. Jessica A. Hutchins at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. The course explores the question “What Is Identity?” through perspectives from the humanities, sciences, arts, and the students’ own lived experience. Students worke…[Read more]