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Zoom link: https://durhamuniversity.zoom.us/j/91336059453?pwd=azdKZ0srR0c5Z0VsNEp6bzJOV3ZuQT09 Setup: Recommended web browsers: Firefox or Chrome; Safari and Edge should also work for most tasks, but have not been fully tested. Create a ctext account and log in Check your e-mail (and spam folder) for an … Continue reading →

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 →

Paper published in Journal of Chinese History Abstract The widespread availability of digitized premodern textual sources – together with increasingly sophisticated means for their manipulation – has brought enormous practical benefits to scholars whose work relies upon reference to their … Continue reading →

Materials from a workshop held as part of the MARAAS Conference: Asian Studies in the Digital Age at Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA. [Download slides] Setup Create a free account on ctext.org and log in. Make sure to validate your e-mail … Continue reading →

It was a pleasure to take part in the Durham Institute for Data Science (IDAS) launch event. The slides from my talk, Interactive text mining and visualization in the humanities, are available online.

Paper presented at Materiality of Knowledge in Chinese Thought: Past and Present, Yuelu Academy Abstract Throughout history, technical innovations in the production and transmission of written materials have often had far-reaching long-term consequences for knowledge production – from the standardization … Continue reading →

Paper published in Digital Scholarship in the Humanities Abstract This article presents technical approaches and innovations in digital library design developed during the design and implementation of the Chinese Text Project, a widely-used, large-scale full-text digital library of premodern Chinese … Continue reading →

Published in Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture 2018, 5(2) [Full paper] Observed textual similarities between different pieces of writing are frequently cited by textual scholars as grounds for interpretative stances about the meaning of a passage and its authorship, … Continue reading →

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Draft – This is a preliminary draft specification. Please note that some implementation details will change before publication. Last updated: 22 March 2019. Overview Transformations of textual data are important processes in many natural language processing and text analysis workflows. … Continue reading →