The College of Letters (COL) is a three-year interdisciplinary major for the study of European literature, history, and philosophy, from antiquity to the present. During these three years, students participate as a cohort in a series of five colloquia in which they read and discuss (in English) major literary, philosophical, and historical texts and concepts drawn from the three disciplinary fi...

The College of Letters (COL) is a three-year interdisciplinary major for the study of European literature, history, and philosophy, from antiquity to the present. During these three years, students participate as a cohort in a series of five colloquia in which they read and discuss (in English) major literary, philosophical, and historical texts and concepts drawn from the three disciplinary fi...

This paper describes a query system on texts and literary material with advanced information retrieval tools. As a test bed we chose the electronic version of Dante’s Inferno, manually tagged using XML, enriched with a domain ontology describing the historical, social and cultural context represented as a separate XML document.

Beginning with a literature review, this paper highlights the historical development of astrological physiognomy from the Greco-Roman period to the present day. Included in the literature review are the principal texts in the field of non-astrological physiognomy beginning with the pseudo-Aristotelian Physiognomica (3 rd Cent BCE). The paper concludes with a summary of research issues which nee...

Advances in text analysis, particularly the ability to extract network based information from texts, is enabling researches to conduct detailed socio-cultural ethnographies rapidly by retrieving characteristic descriptions from texts and fusing the results from varied sources. We describe this process and illustrate it in the context of conflict in the Sudan. We show how network information can...

In this contribution, we present a computational stylistic study of the French classic literature texts based on a data-driven approach where discovering interesting linguistic patterns is done without any prior knowledge. We propose an objective interestingness measure to extract meaningful stylistic syntactic patterns from a given author’s work. Our hypothesis is based on the fact that the mo...

The College of Letters (COL) is a three-year interdisciplinary major for the study of European literature, history, and philosophy, from antiquity to the present. During these three years, students participate as a cohort in a series of five colloquia in which they read and discuss (in English) major literary, philosophical, and historical texts and concepts drawn from the three disciplinary fi...

There are many digitized historical German texts from all periods (Old High German to Modern German). It is, however, difficult to carry out diachronic research because o there are differences in digitzation source (original or edition) o there are differences in digitization quality o the texts are stored in different (and, sometimes, incompatible) formats o many texts are not publicly availab...

In line with a shift from transmissional/didactic instructional approaches to constructive/critical activities, the technology mediated history curriculum via critical thinking instruction is constructed to provide students an opportunity to engage in a critical and meaningful investigation of history. Instead of consuming predigested accounts of historical figures, events, and fragmentary info...

While much of the research and labor in treebanks has focused on modern languages, recent scholarship has also seen the rise of treebanks for historical languages as well, such as Middle English (Kroch and Taylor [15]), Early Modern English (Kroch et al. [16]), Old English (Taylor et al. [28]), Early New High German (Demske et al. [11]) and Medieval Portuguese (Rocio et al. [27]). Like their mo...