Category Archives: Talks and conference papers

International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing Abstract An important part of the historical record of premodern China is recorded in historical works such as the standard dynastic histories. These works are a key source of knowledge about many aspects … Continue reading →

Paper presented at Pacific Neighborhood Consortium Conference 2021 Abstract This paper introduces a crowdsourced approach to knowledge base construction for historical data based upon annotation of historical source materials. Building on an existing digital library of premodern Chinese texts and … Continue reading →

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Poster presented at Linked Pasts 2020 For more details, please see the extended abstract “Crowdsourcing the historical record: knowledge base construction for Chinese history at scale” presented at Taiwan’s DADH 2020 conference. Abstract The tasks of semantically annotating historical primary … Continue reading →

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Poster presented at Connected Past 2018. Abstract The phenomenon of text reuse – syntactically and semantically similar fragments of text repeated apparently independently in multiple pieces of writing, and often in works purporting to be composed by entirely different authors … Continue reading →

Paper presented at Future Philologies: Digital Directions in Ancient World Text, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University, April 20 2018. Abstract Despite a growing interest in digital humanities as a field of study and focus … Continue reading →

It was a pleasure to host on behalf of the Chinese Text Project (ctext.org), together with Professor Peter Bol on behalf of the China Biographical Database (CBDB), the International conference on cyberinfrastructure for historical China studies, held at the Harvard … Continue reading →