"Mujique Marei": Análise contextual e close reading

Network Analysis Between Distant Reading and Close Reading

The advent of “distant reading” methods has created the opportunity to look at texts in a new way. But with the shift from close to distant reading, there is also a danger of loosing sight of fine-grained text structure. Like any method, distant reading methodology is not theoretically neutral, but carries a bundle of presuppositions. In this paper, a new method of text network analysis is prop...

Close Reading and the Market Nicholas Brown

Why do we read literary texts closely? There are plenty of other things to do with literary texts, many of them more fun, some of them even interesting. But the interesting ones, though they may help us in our close reading, or may indeed challenge, limit, or secure its conditions of possibility, belong to other disciplines: psychology, linguistics, sociology of art, anthropology, area studies,...

A contextual reading of conditional commitments

This paper puts forward a view on conditional commitments as causal rules, using action language K as the specification framework. The proposal builds upon an operational notion of social context, in such a way that conditional commitments are represented as rules in context. This approach enables the manipulation of conditional commitments in terms of the manipulation of the social interaction...

Criação de Conhecimento Organizacional e Análise de Sinais Fracos: Convergências

Técnicas em Processamento e Análise de Documentos Manuscritos

This work aims to present the main modules of a typical Handwriting Document Processing and Analysis System (HDPAS): data acquisition, preprocessing, segmentation, feature extraction and recognition. First, the relevant aspects of each HDPAS process are given, different types of documents, filtering and segmentation techniques applied to extract the interested data. Then, the main Hidden Markov...