Exploring Literary Landscapes: From Texts to Spatiotemporal Analysis through Collaborative Work and GIS

Alves, Daniel; Queiroz, Ana Isabel

doi:10.3366/ijhac.2015.0138

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“…Such a twodimensional analysis is a result of introducing the tools of spatial analysis into the field of language material creation and evaluation. However, taking into consideration the area of the pages of the textbook (Figure 4) and geographical space also departs from the methods established in GIS studies in linguis tics (Alves & Queiroz, 2015;Caquard, 2013;Caquard & Fiset, 2014;Lueberring et al, 2013) It allows for juxtaposing the attitudes inscribed in the cultural context of the book and the geo graphic space they refer to. This, in turn, opens new questions concerning the role of space in the textbook, e.g., does it merely serve as an illustration or does it serve some other purpose, for instance, can it be used to promote Inter cultural Communication (Byram, 1997;Hollen back, 2017)?…”

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“…when analysing linguistic diversity (Lue berring et al, 2013), language variations (Je szenszky et al, 2017), or the space in literary works, as in the classic works by Moretti (2006Moretti ( , 2007 or in the case of the Atlas of European Novel (Hohensinner et al, 2013;Piatti & Hurni, 2009;Weber Reuschel et al, 2014). Alterna tively, we can simply investigate the spatial dimension of processes or phenomena by supplementing a corpus with geographical information, thus creating a geocorpus (Alves & Queiroz, 2015;Caquard, 2013;Smail et al, 2019). Finally, space, particularly presented on a map and culture have enjoyed attention by both cartographers (Cartwright, 2009;Har ley, 1989) and researchers studying cultures (Barcz & Waclawik, 2022;Hauberman, 2016;Szombara, 2021) There are, however, few studies, in which the pages of the source are treated as a plane for analysing spatial information such as topo logical relationships between types of content.…”

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Tell me where you are and I’ll tell you what you learn. Investigating hidden curricula using GIS analysis of place names in a case study of an English language textbook published in Japan

Wacławik,

Gozdawa-Gołębiowski

2023

Polish Cartographical Review

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The article aims to look for a way to geographically delineate the notion of target culture in the language textbook “The World We Live in” by Ogasawara et al. (2013) published in Japan for Japanese students and teachers. Looking at the textbooks as cultural artefacts, we identified geographical space within the scope of the sample textbook and analysed the pedagogical context the place names appeared in. By doing that we attempt to find the spatial bias of the book, which is a manifestation of values there inscribed, often called the “hidden curriculum”. The elaborated method, following a seminal study by Risager (2018), is an attempt to adapt the proposed content analysis of the textbooks into GIS tools in order to capture the geographic dimension of the content. The method serves as a stepping stone towards the creation of a model to analyse and identify the attitudes toward the cultural content of educational materials. This will not only enable a more authentic classroom experience responding to the needs of particular groups of students and teachers but also look for ways to make the textbooks more inclusive.

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Tell me where you are and I’ll tell you what you learn. Investigating hidden curricula using GIS analysis of place names in a case study of an English language textbook published in Japan

Wacławik,

Gozdawa-Gołębiowski

2023

Polish Cartographical Review

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“…(Murrieta-Flores, 2012;Verhagen, Nuninger, Tourneux, Bertoncello, & Jeneson, 2013;Bevan & Wilson, 2013). 5) Exploring historical corpora, also known as literary GIS, (Cooper & Gregory, 2011;Rupp, Rayson, Gregory, Hardie, Joulain, & Hartmann, 2014;Alves & Queiroz, 2015).…”

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Linear programming for the analysis and virtual recreation of historical events: the allocation of the artillery during the Siege of Bilbao in 1874

Miranda

Lopes

Martín-Etxebarria

et al. 2021

Virtual archaeol. rev.

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The current digital technologies development makes it possible to apply new forms of studying historical events considering the geographical point of view. They rely on the location and the relationships among the different elements that took part in them over a recreated space (e.g. relief, roads, rivers); once these elements have been laid out on the virtual space, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) can be used to analyse several factors, such as distances, visibility, connectivity and so on. Nevertheless, the development of the actions was also driven by the aims, needs and beliefs (either wise or misguided) of the people/actors involved in those situations; therefore, some ways of including reasoning would significantly improve the actual recreation and understanding of the episodes. In this sense, “linear programming” is a very versatile tool for system modelling and optimization that is broadly used in many fields (e.g. industry, transports, agriculture, etc.). Likewise, this technique can also be applied to past scenarios to simulate dynamics and cross-check sources. In this text, two models regarding the distribution and the allocation of supplies during the siege of Bilbao, in the framework of the Third Carlist War (1872-1876), from both parties —beleaguerer and besieged— were established based on the war front textual reports. In these models, the scenario is recreated through the system variables (which define the alternatives that can be or could have been taken) and the constraints (which limit the range of action); moreover, the actors’ goals that guided the course of events are defined by the objective. Despite the simplification in the modelling, the results show very interesting hints about the dynamics involved during the processes and are able to highlight some critical issues that significantly conditioned the final results. Besides, the modelling process itself proved to be an opportunity for collaboration between historians and computer scientists.Highlights:<ul><li>Geographic Information Systems (GIS) allow studying past events through the recreation of the geographical space and the interactions between the elements.</li><li>Linear programming can be a suitable option to include actors’ reasoning as a part of the modelling process.</li><li>The usefulness of the system models also enables the identification of critical issues, testing alternative scenarios and sharing information.</li></ul>

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“…His group adapted the Edinburgh Geoparser to do this work (Cooper and Gregory 2011) and have presented precision and recall scores for geotagging of 91.6 and 74.4 depending on the type of gazetteer used (Rupp et al 2013). Alves and Queiroz (2015) report on the mapping of Portuguese literature as part of the project LITESCAPE.PT -Atlas of Literary Landscapes of Mainland Portugal (Alves and Queiroz 2015). Their paper refers to ''distant reading'' being employed as part of their methodology.…”

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Geoparsing historical and contemporary literary text set in the City of Edinburgh

Alex¹,

Grover²,

Tobin³

et al. 2019

Lang Resources & Evaluation

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While a reasonable amount of work has gone into automatically geoparsing text at the city or higher levels of granularity for different types of texts in different domains, there is relatively little research on geoparsing fine-grained locations such as buildings, green spaces and street names in text. This paper reports on how the Edinburgh Geoparser performs on this task for different types of literary text set in Edinburgh, the first UNESCO City of Literature. The non-copyrighted gold standard datasets created for this purpose are released along with this article. Keywords Geoparsing Á Geotagging Á Georesolution Á Fine-grained place names Á Mining literary text Á Edinburgh gazetteer This article is dedicated to our colleague and friend Professor Jon Oberlander.

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Exploring Literary Landscapes: From Texts to Spatiotemporal Analysis through Collaborative Work and GIS

Cited by 12 publications

References 20 publications

Tell me where you are and I’ll tell you what you learn. Investigating hidden curricula using GIS analysis of place names in a case study of an English language textbook published in Japan

Tell me where you are and I’ll tell you what you learn. Investigating hidden curricula using GIS analysis of place names in a case study of an English language textbook published in Japan

Linear programming for the analysis and virtual recreation of historical events: the allocation of the artillery during the Siege of Bilbao in 1874

Geoparsing historical and contemporary literary text set in the City of Edinburgh

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