Category Archives: Chinese

Exploring Text Reuse in the Pre-Qin and Han Corpus

Posted on October 3, 2015 by dsturgeon

Presentation at Harvard University, Computational Methods for Chinese History: A “Digging into Data Challenge” Training Workshop, 17 October 2015. Science Center, Room B09, 3.15pm.

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Fairbank Center

Posted on September 1, 2015 by dsturgeon

From September 2015 to July 2016 I will be serving as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University’s Fairbank Center of Chinese Studies, working on (among other things) a project I’ve titled “Big Data and Early China: Corpus-Assisted Interpretation of Classical … Continue reading →

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Digitizing Early China

Posted on July 18, 2015 by dsturgeon

Seminar at Leiden University, 5 August 2015 Since its origins as a database of Warring States philosophical texts, the Chinese Text Project (http://ctext.org) has gradually grown to become one of the largest digital libraries of pre-modern Chinese texts in existence, … Continue reading →

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Chinese Text Project – Support for Unicode 8.0

Posted on July 2, 2015 by dsturgeon

A new version of the Unicode standard has been released, defining thousands of additional rarely used and variant Chinese characters. Support for these has been added to the dictionary section of the site; to view these characters, please install the … Continue reading →

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Zhuangzi, perspectives, and greater knowledge

Posted on July 1, 2015 by dsturgeon

This paper, accepted April 2012, has now appeared in Philosophy East and West 65:3 (July 2015).

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Chinese Text Project: over ten million pages of pre-modern Chinese texts now searchable online

Posted on March 24, 2015 by dsturgeon

Update to the CTP: A major update to the site has been made by applying OCR to over ten million pages of transmitted texts stored in the Library, linking scanned texts where possible to digital editions that follow them. Over … Continue reading →

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Lecture at Sungkyunkwan University

Posted on December 8, 2014 by dsturgeon

While visiting the Compilation Center of Korean Confucian Classics at Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul, I had the chance to give a lecture to some graduate students about the Chinese Text Project. Although most of the presentation consisted of a practical … Continue reading →

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International forum on the present and future of archiving projects on Confucian texts

Posted on December 6, 2014 by dsturgeon

I was very happy to be given the opportunity to introduce some aspects of the Chinese Text Project at this workshop hosted by the Compilation Center of Korean Confucian Classics at Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul. I’ve uploaded a handout (Chinese) … Continue reading →

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Phrase-based alignment of classical Chinese and English

Posted on December 2, 2014 by dsturgeon

Paper presented at Greek and Latin in an age of Open Data: Phrase-based alignment of classical Chinese and English Donald Sturgeon and John S. Y. Lee Abstract Aligned parallel corpora are useful for a variety of purposes including machine translation … Continue reading →

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Chinese Text Project – Dictionary update

Posted on September 28, 2014 by dsturgeon

Update to the CTP: The dictionary section of the site has been updated to make better use of English translations. Dictionary pages now cite English translations of example sentences together with the corresponding Chinese examples. Additionally, dictionary look-ups for passages … Continue reading →

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