The World of Dante: a hypermedia archive for the study of the Inferno

Parker, Deborah

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“…Data mining procedures able to conceptually query the aforementioned resources have also been implemented (Baglioni et al, 2004). Among the other works on Dante we cite The World of Dante (Parker, 2001), Digital Dante of the Columbia University (LeLoup and Ponterio, 2006) and the Princeton Dante Project (Hollander, 2013). A "multidimensional" social network of characters, places and events of Dante's Inferno have been constructed to make evident the innermost structure of the text (Cappelli et al, 2011) by leveraging on the expressive power of graph representations of data (Newman, 2003;Newman et al, 2006;Easley and Kleinberg, 2010;Meirelles, 2013).…”

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ALCIDE: An online platform for the analysis of language and content in a digital environment

Moretti¹,

Tonelli²,

Menini³

2014

Proceedings of the First Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics CLiC-it 2014 and of the Fourth International Workshop

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We are glad to introduce CLiC-it 2014 (http://clic.humnet.unipi.it), the first edition of the Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics, a new event aiming to establish a reference forum for research on Computational Linguistics of the Italian community. CLiC-it covers all aspects of automatic language understanding, both written and spoken, and targets state-of-art theoretical results, experimental methodologies, technologies, as well as application perspectives, which may contribute to advance the field.CLiC-it 2014 is held in Pisa on December 9-10 2014, and it is co-located with EVALITA-2014 (http://www.evalita.it), the fourth edition of the evaluation campaign of Natural Language Processing and Speech tools for Italian and with the XIII Symposium on Artificial Intelligence (Pisa, 10-12 December 2014, http://aiia2014.di.unipi.it/).Pisa is a special place in the history of Italian Computational Linguistics. Here, Padre Roberto Busa carried out his pioneering research on automatic text processing in the late '60s with Antonio Zampolli, who then founded the Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale of CNR in Pisa, the first research center thoroughly devoted to Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing. The University of Pisa also hosted the first professorship in Computational Linguistics held by Antonio Zampolli until his death in 2003.It is therefore highly symbolic that the Italian community on Computational Linguistics gathers for the first time in Pisa, there where its roots lie. Italian Computational Linguistics has come a long way. Research groups and centers are now spread nationwide and play an active role on the international scene. The large number of researchers that have decided to present their work to CLiC-it is the best proof of the maturity of our community, strongly committed to shape the future of Computational Linguistics.The spirit of CLiC-it is inclusive. In the conviction that the complexity of language phenomena needs cross-disciplinary competences, CLiC-it intends to bring together researchers of related disciplines such as

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ALCIDE: An online platform for the analysis of language and content in a digital environment

Moretti¹,

Tonelli²,

Menini³

2014

Proceedings of the First Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics CLiC-it 2014 and of the Fourth International Workshop

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“…of Cologne) and Prometheus (a digital image archive), and the World of Dante, a hypermedia visualization of the work of the famous poet (Parker, 2001) 39 . There is only a vague borderline between digital archives and digital libraries such as Perseus.…”

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Past, present and future of historical information science

Boonstra¹,

Breure²,

Doorn³

2006

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This report evaluates the impact of two decades of research within the framework of history and computing, and sets out a research paradigm and research infrastructure for future historical information science. It is good to see that there has been done a lot of historical information r esearch in the past; much of it has been done, however, outside the field of history and computing, and not within a community like the Association for History and Computing. The reason is that the AHC never made a clear statement about what audience to address: historians with an interest in computing, or historical information scientists. As a r esult, both parties have not been accommodated, and communications with both 'traditional' history and 'information science' have not been established. A proper research program, based on new developments in information science, is proposed, along with an unambiguous scientific research infrastructure.Chapter 1. Introduction "The historian who refuses to use a computer as being unnecessary, ignores vast areas of historical research and will not be taken serious anymore" (Boonstra, Breure and Doorn, 1990).When we wrote the lines above, fifteen years ago, we sensed that, with the coming of the computer, not only new areas of historical research would be opened, but also that computers would be able to help find solutions to many of the information problems that are so distinctive to historical science. * Address all communications to: Onno Boonstra, Leen Breure and Peter Doorn, NIWI, Postbus 41950, 1009 DD Amsterdam, the Netherlands; e-mail: o.boonstra@let.kun.nl, leen@cs.uu.nl , peter.doorn@niwi.knaw.nl . The online version of this report is also available on: http://www.niwi.knaw.nl/nl/ geschiedenis/onderzoek/onderzoeksprojecten/past_present_future_of_historical_information _science/draft_report/toonplaatje. 5Nowadays, information problems in historical research still exist and are still vast and very varied. They range from textual pro blems (what is the word that is written on this thirteenth-century manuscript? what does it mean? to which issue does it relate? why was it put there? why was the text written? who was the author? who was supposed to read the manuscript? why has it survived?) and linkage problems (is this Lars Erikson, from this register, the same man as the Lars Eriksson, from this other register?), to data structuring pro blems (how can historical contextual information be kept as metadata in a XMLdatabase?), interpretation problems (from this huge amount of digital records, is it possible to discern patterns that add to our knowledge of history?) and visualisation problems (how do you put time-varying information on a historical map?).But this does not mean that nothing has been achieved over the last two decades. On the contrary, hundreds of research projects have been initiated to tackle problems like these. Historians, linguists, literary scholars, information scientists, they all have done their share in making historical information science grow and flo...

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