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DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly
2023 17.2
Articles
Computational Paremiology: Charting the temporal, ecological dynamics of proverb use in books, news articles, and tweets
Ethan Davis, Computational Story Lab, Vermont Complex Systems Center, MassMutual Center of Excellence for Complex Systems and Data Science, Vermont Advanced Computing Core, Watzek Library, Lewis & Clark College; Christopher Danforth, Computational Story Lab, Vermont Complex Systems Center, MassMutual Center of Excellence for Complex Systems and Data Science, Vermont Advanced Computing Core, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Vermont; Wolfgang Mieder, Department of German & Russian, University of Vermont; Peter Sheridan Dodds, Computational Story Lab, Vermont Complex Systems Center, MassMutual Center of Excellence for Complex Systems and Data Science, Vermont Advanced Computing Core, Department of Computer Science, University of Vermont, Santa Fe Institute
Abstract
[en]
Proverbs are an essential component of language and culture, and though much attention
has been paid to their history and currency, there has been comparatively little
quantitative work on changes in the frequency with which they are used over time. With
wider availability of large corpora reflecting many diverse genres of documents, it is
now possible to take a broad and dynamic view of the importance of the proverb. Here, we
measure temporal changes in the relevance of proverbs within four corpora, differing in
kind, scale, and time frame: Millions of books over centuries; thousands of books over
centuries; millions of news articles over twenty years; and billions of tweets over a
decade. While similar methodologies abound lately, they have not yet been performed
using comprehensive phraseological lexica (here, The Dictionary of
American Proverbs). We show that beyond simple partitioning of texts into words,
searches for culturally significant phrases can yield distinct insights from the same
corpora. Comparative analysis between four commonly used corpora show that each reveals
its own relationship to the phenomena being studied. We also find that the frequency
with which proverbs appear in texts follows a similar distribution to that of individual
words.
Historical GIS and
Guidebooks: A Scalable Reading of Czechoslovak Tourist Attractions
Sune Bechmann Pedersen, Stockholm University; Mathias Johansson, Lund University
Abstract
[en]
This article demonstrates the value of “scalable reading” of historical travel
guides, combining traditional close reading with computer-assisted distant reading.
Aiming to scrutinize the persistence of older tourist attractions under communism, we
analyse guidebooks intended for similar audiences but produced under different
political regimes. More specifically, we compare three travel guides to the same
geographical area produced between 1905 and 1959: one to communist cold war
Czechoslovakia, one to democratic interwar Czechoslovakia, and one to the
Habsburg-era Czech lands and Slovakia. We analyse the geographic distribution of
attractions by geolocating the guidebook toponyms and visualizing them with
Geographic Information Systems (GIS). This distant reading is complemented with a
hermeneutic analysis grounded in a close reading of the guidebook text. The
combination of these approaches documents the similarities in the symbolic
representation of the country’s attractions across political caesuras and provides a
methodological template for future explorations of travel guides with historical
GIS.
An Integral Web-map for the Analysis of Spatial
Change over Time in a Complex Built Environment: Digital Samos
Estefanía López Salas, Universidade da Coruña
Abstract
[en]
The paper focuses on a prototype interactive web-map developed for the presentation
and dissemination of architectural transformations at the monastic site of San Julián
de Samos in north-western Spain. The paper’s central argument offers a response to
questions regarding why and how to create an interactive web-map in the field of
architectural history through a particular case study. The paper is organized into
three main parts. It first presents the project focus on spatiotemporal analysis of a
centuries-old Spanish monastic site. Second part is devoted to the specific domain of
web-mapping tools and why they can help us to better make sense of complex built
environments that humans have formed and re-formed over time. After that, we explain
how we faced the process of creating an integral scientific web-map that goes beyond
static 2D representations of a multi-layered past physical realm in a definitive
publication, the challenges we faced, and the proposed future developments. The
prototype web-map of Digital Samos integrates the graphic features of spatial objects
with source data in a web publication platform where the reader is granted accessed
to fully uncover, interact with, and learn about a historically rich monastic
palimpsest.
SEDES: Metrical Position in Greek Hexameter
Stephen A. Sansom, Florida State University; David Fifield, Independent Scholar
Abstract
[en]
This article outlines the processes of SEDES, a program that automatically identifies, quantifies, and visualizes the metrical position of lemmata in ancient Greek hexameter poetry; and gives examples of its application to investigate the effects of metrical position on poetic features such as formularity, expectancy, and intertextuality.
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Published by: The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations and The Association for Computers and the Humanities
Affiliated with: Digital Scholarship in the Humanities
DHQ has been made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Copyright © 2005 -
Unless otherwise noted, the DHQ web site and all DHQ published content are published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. Individual articles may carry a more permissive license, as described in the footer for the individual article, and in the article’s metadata.
