Dimitrios Kokkinakis and Mats Malm Introduction Multifaceted relations between texts can be complex, abstract, diverse or subtle. Digital humanists are interested in identifying pairs of text passages likely to contain substantial overlap and empirically supporting (hopefully) new interpretations of historical texts. For instance, Cordell [3] discusses how digital interpretive tools can help ma...

Accessing textual information is still a complex activity when users have to browse through large corpora or long texts. In order to help users in such tasks, we propose a model dedicated to lexical representation of thematic domains as well as tools for personal corpora analysis. The lexical model is a differential one, inspired by Saussure's semiotics. It consists in structuring and describin...

Today, one of the important topics, which are mentioned in architecture, is the relationship between architectural works with each other and way of effect of such works on them. On the other hand, under current conditions and despite existing trends which look for their own architecture, it is crucial important to interpret how contemporary architectural works are affected by previous architect...

How can it be said that texts are "near" or "distant" from one another? Are different texts by a single author more similar than texts by different authors? To answer these questions, a method is proposed by combination of the calculus of intertextual distance with automatic clustering and tree-classification. A blind test and some additional experiments show that this method offers an interest...

As a singular moment in the western canon, the opening of the recapitulation in the first movement of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony has prompted a variety of structural and expressive readings. This paper explores its intertextual connections with Mozart’s Don Giovanni from a memetic perspective, outlining certain extra-musical interpretations, including some related to Susan McClary’s controversi...