Category Archives: Talks and conference papers

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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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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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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Knowledge and Language in Early Chinese Thought

Posted on May 11, 2014 by dsturgeon

An invited lecture given at the Taiwan Philosophical Association at Taiwan University. Abstract Early Chinese thinkers did not typically characterize knowledge in terms of sentential constructs nor consider these to be a fundamental constituent or theoretical foundation of knowledge. At … Continue reading →

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Early Mohists and Logic

Posted on April 26, 2014 by dsturgeon

Presented at the History of Logic in China (HOLIC) 2014 conference. Abstract The extant text of the Mozi can be divided into several sections separated by quite clear divisions in both writing style and content. Of these, one section of … Continue reading →

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