A method was recently proposed to estimate distances between a pair of given texts. The distance estimation appeared to be reliable enough to infer a phylogenic tree of languages, even though no error estimation has been provided. This essay reviews the method and explains its application for inferring phylogeny on a collection of heterogeneous texts. An approach for estimating the confidence o...

English. This work presents ALCIDE (Analysis of Language and Content In a Digital Environment), a new platform for Historical Content Analysis. Our aim is to improve Digital Humanities studies integrating methodologies taken from human language technology and an easily understandable data structure representation. ALCIDE provides a wide collection of tools that go beyond simple metadata indexin...

SOMMARIO: 1. Considerazioni introduttive - 2. Stereotipi e luoghi comuni 3. linguaggio di genere 4. Contro un automatismo discriminante: la sentenza della Corte costituzionale n. 131 del 2022 5. Non arrendersi all’ovvio.
 Resist the obvious. Some considerations on gender stereotypes following sentence of Italian Constitutional Court, 2022, attribution surname
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English. What is the role of consciousness in language processing? Unconscious priming experiments show that words can prime other words with related meanings (cat – dog), and these priming effects are assumed to reflect the activation of conceptual knowledge in semantic memory. Alternatively, however, unconscious priming effects could reflect predictive relationships between the words’ forms, ...

Abstract The concept of trace is useful for a semiotic reflection upon what left behind. Similar to the concepts index and footprint, traces are traditionally described as already signs, or more precisely something recognized sign (Violi, Riv Ital Filos Linguaggio, 2016, http://www.rifl.unical.it/index.php/rifl/article/view/365 ; Mazzucchelli, 2015, http://www.rifl.unical.it/index.php/rifl/arti...

En este artículo se aportan pruebas documentales que permiten reconocer a un Maquiavelo que, en calidad de embajador secreto del papa, fue enviado Venecia para llevar cabo solo formalmente, siguiendo las órdenes los Consoli dell´Arte della Lana, una misión, no sería, por tanto, más mera fachada: recuperar siempre indeterminada cantidad ducados oro tres comerciantes florentinos habían visto obli...