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Digitizing Premodern Text with the Chinese Text Project

Posted on August 12, 2020 by dsturgeon

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 →

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MARAAS workshop

Posted on October 12, 2019 by dsturgeon

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 →

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Durham Institute for Data Science (IDAS) launch

Posted on September 30, 2019 by dsturgeon

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.

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Old texts in a new world: Meaning production in the digital medium

Posted on September 16, 2019 by dsturgeon

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 →

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Chinese Text Project: a dynamic digital library of premodern Chinese

Posted on August 30, 2019 by dsturgeon

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 →

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Digital Approaches to Text Reuse in the Early Chinese Corpus

Posted on May 15, 2019 by dsturgeon

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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Accessible Text Mining with Text Tools and the Chinese Text Project

Posted on March 22, 2019 by dsturgeon

Setup Create a free account on ctext.org and log in. Make sure to validate your e-mail address by opening the link the system sent you (if not, the link above will display a warning/reminder in red to do so). Enter … Continue reading →

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Text Transformation API

Posted on March 22, 2019 by dsturgeon

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 →

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SUTD Workshop

Posted on March 17, 2019 by dsturgeon

Materials from a workshop held as part of Working with different kinds of ‘text’ in the Digital Humanities at the Singapore University of Technology and Design. Setup Create a free account on ctext.org and log in. Make sure to validate … Continue reading →

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Large-scale Optical Character Recognition of Pre-modern Chinese Texts

Posted on January 11, 2019 by dsturgeon

This paper appears in International Journal of Buddhist Thought and Culture 28(2) (December 2018). [Full paper] Abstract Optical character recognition (OCR) – the fully automated transcription of text appearing in a digitized image – offers transformative opportunities for the scholarly … Continue reading →

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