107 research outputs found
Current issues of the Russian language teaching XIV
Collection of papers āCurrent issues of the Russian language teaching XIVā is devoted to issues of methodology of teaching Russian as a foreign language, to issues of linguistics and literary science and includes papers related to the use of online tools and resources in teaching Russian. This collection of papers is a result of the international scientific conference āCurrent issues of the Russian language teaching XIVā, which was scheduled for 8ā10 May 2020, but due to the pandemic COVID-19 took place remotely
OCR Report
Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is the most commonly known method of text extraction from digitised documents used in the cultural heritage sector. It is a process that transforms images of text into a machine-readable format. Traditionally, OCR uses technology to digitally scan text and identify letters individually, therefore recognising one character at a time. Advancements have been made over time that introduce aspects of machine learning into OCR which change this dynamic slightly, which will be explored in more detail later in this report. This report explores OCR software options broadly, in addition to past, current and future proposed OCR processes and workflows that the University of Edinburgh library may introduce
Fundamentals of Business
Fundamentals of Business, fourth edition (2023) is an open education resource intended to serve as a no-cost, faculty-customizable primary text for one-semester undergraduate introductory business courses. It covers the following topics in business: Teamwork; economics; ethics; entrepreneurship; business ownership, management, and leadership; organizational structures and operations management; human resources and motivating employees; managing in labor union contexts; marketing and pricing strategy; hospitality and tourism, accounting and finance, personal finances, and technology in business
Central and Eastern European Literary Theory and the West
The twentieth century saw intensive intellectual exchange between Eastern and Central Europe and the West. Yet political and linguistic obstacles meant that many important trends in East and Central European thought and knowledge hardly registered in Western Europe and the US. This book uncovers the hidden westward movements of Eastern European literary theory and its influence on Western scholarship
If it aināt broke, donāt fix it : An Abductive and Contextual Exploration of Maintenance Deferral
Objective: To create academic insights into how organisations approach and manage the maintenance of vendor-supplied information systems software.
Approach: Three iterations of the Peircean Abduction methodology lead to the identification, conceptualisation, and application of new knowledge in vendor-supplied Information Systems (IS) maintenance deferral by means of undertaking a qualitative multiple-case study. The research goals are achieved through the appropriation and application of theories from Peircean Abduction and Systemic Functional Linguistics.
Research questions: The following abductive statement is created through the application of the Peircean Abduction methodology:
The surprising observation, āsome organisations, having invested in a vendor-supplied IS software solution, defer the implementation of vendor-supplied maintenanceā, is made; However, if āthe existence of deterrents to maintenance, requiring a trigger event before the implementation of maintenanceā were true, then āmaintenance deferralā would be a matter of course. Hence there is a reason to suspect that āthe existence of both deterrents, and of triggersā is true.
From this abductive statement, three research questions are deduced. The first research question investigates the existence, characteristics and influence of deterrents; the second question investigates the existence, characteristics and influence of triggers. As a consequence of this approach, the final question provides a general understanding of IS maintenance deferral.
Methodology: Following the implementation of a systematic literature review methodology, six themes are identified:
1. an acknowledgement that problems exist when considering vendor-supplied software maintenance;
2. deterrents as a driver in behaviour;
3. the occurrence of tipping-points which require vendor-supplied maintenance to be undertaken;
4. the consequences of deferral;
5. the value of maintenance; and
6. the formalisation of a maintenance lifecycle.
Taking the insights arising from the systematic literature review, a multiple-case study following the pragmatic framework is constructed from data collected interviewing twelve participants across a diverse set of ten organisations.
An abductive approach to this research topic creates opportunities for a comprehensive, well-grounded exploratory contribution to a scarcely investigated research domain.
Major findings: The translation of Peircean abduction to an interpretative context generates a rich and substantive contribution to theory and practice. The existence of both deterrents and triggers are strongly supported, leading to the conclusion that maintenance deferral is a matter of course. The development of a new abductive and Systemic Functional Linguistic model enhances the knowledge of maintenance deferral and allows refinement of historical IS maintenance models. Finally, the application of Systems Thinking situates insights from the application of their mode within their respective organisational environments
Intertextual Readings of the NyÄyabhÅ«į¹£aį¹a on Buddhist Anti-Realism
This two-part dissertation has two goals: 1) a close philological reading of a 50-page section of a 10th-century Sanskrit philosophical work (BhÄsarvajƱa's NyÄyabhÅ«į¹£aį¹a), and 2) the creation and assessment of a novel intertextuality research system (VÄtÄyana) centered on the same work.
The first half of the dissertation encompasses the philology project in four chapters: 1) background on the author, work, and key philosophical ideas in the passage; 2) descriptions of all known manuscript witnesses of this work and a new critical edition that substantially improves upon the editio princeps; 3) a word-for-word English translation richly annotated with both traditional explanatory material and novel digital links to not one but two interactive online research systems; and 4) a discussion of the Sanskrit author's dialectical strategy in the studied passage.
The second half of the dissertation details the intertextuality research system in a further four chapters: 5) why it is needed and what can be learned from existing projects; 6) the creation of the system consisting of curated textual corpus, composite algorithm in natural language processing and information retrieval, and live web-app interface; 7) an evaluation of system performance measured against a small gold-standard dataset derived from traditional philological research; and 8) a discussion of the impact such new technology could have on humanistic research more broadly. System performance was assessed to be quite good, with a 'recall@5' of 80%, meaning that most previously known cases of mid-length quotation and even paraphrase could be automatically found and returned within the system's top five hits. Moreover, the system was also found to return a 34% surplus of additional significant parallels not found in the small benchmark. This assessment confirms that VÄtÄyana can be useful to researchers by aiding them in their collection and organization of intertextual observations, leaving them more time to focus on interpretation.
Seventeen appendices illustrate both these efforts and a number of side projects, the latter of which span translation alignment, network visualization of an important database of South Asian prosopography (PANDiT), and a multi-functional Sanskrit text-processing web application (Skrutable).:Preface (i)
Table of Contents (ii)
Abbreviations (v)
Terms and Symbols (v)
NyÄyabhÅ«į¹£aį¹a Witnesses (v)
Main Sanskrit Editions (vi)
Introduction (vii)
A Multi-Disciplinary Project in Intertextual Reading (vii)
Main Object of Study: NyÄyabhÅ«į¹£aį¹a 104ā154 (vii)
Project Outline (ix)
Part I: Close Reading (1)
1 Background (1)
1.1 BhÄsarvajƱa (1)
1.2 The NyÄyabhÅ«į¹£aį¹a (6)
1.2.1 Ts One of Several Commentaries on BhÄsarvajƱa's NyÄyasÄra (6)
1.2.2 In Modern Scholarship, with Focus on NBhÅ« 104ā154 (8)
1.3 Philosophical Context (11)
1.3.1 Key Philosophical Concepts (12)
1.3.2 Intra-Textual Context within the NyÄyabhÅ«į¹£aį¹a (34)
1.3.3 Inter-Textual Context (36)
2 Edition of NBhÅ« 104ā154 (39)
2.1 Source Materials (39)
2.1.1 Edition of YogÄ«ndrÄnanda 1968 (E) (40)
2.1.2 Manuscripts (P1, P2, V) (43)
2.1.3 Diplomatic Transcripts (59)
2.2 Notes on Using the Edition (60)
2.3 Critical Edition of NBhÅ« 104ā154 with Apparatuses (62)
3 Translation of NBhÅ« 104ā154 (108)
3.1 Notes on Translation Method (108)
3.2 Notes on Outline Headings (112)
3.3 Annotated Translation of NBhÅ« 104ā154 (114)
4 Discussion (216)
4.1 Internal Structure of NBhÅ« 104ā154 (216)
4.2 Critical Assessment of BhÄsarvajƱa's Argumentation (218)
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Part II: Distant Reading with Digital Humanities (224)
5 Background in Intertextuality Detection (224)
5.1 Sanskrit Projects (225)
5.2 Non-Sanskrit Projects (228)
5.3 Operationalizing Intertextuality (233)
6 Building an Intertextuality Machine (239)
6.1 Corpus (PramÄį¹a NLP) (239)
6.2 Algorithm (VÄtÄyana) (242)
6.3 User Interface (VÄtÄyana) (246)
7 Evaluating System Performance (255)
7.1 Previous Scholarship on NBhÅ« 104ā154 as Philological Benchmark (255)
7.2 System Performance Relative to Benchmark (257)
8 Discussion (262)
Conclusion (266)
Works Cited (269)
Main Sanskrit Editions (269)
Works Cited in Part I (271)
Works Cited in Part II (281)
Appendices (285)
Appendix 1: Correspondence of Joshi 1986 to YogÄ«ndrÄnanda 1968 (286)
Appendix 1D: Full-Text Alignment of Joshi 1986 to YogÄ«ndrÄnanda 1968 (287)
Appendix 2: Prosopographical Relations Important for NBhÅ« 104ā154 (288)
Appendix 2D: Command-Line Tool āPandit Grapherā (290)
Appendix 3: Previous Suggestions to Improve Text of NBhÅ« 104ā154 (291)
Appendix 4D: Transcript and Collation Data for NBhÅ« 104ā154 (304)
Appendix 5D: Command-Line Tool ācte2cexā for Transcript Data Conversion (305)
Appendix 6D: Deployment of Brucheion for Interactive Transcript Data (306)
Appendix 7: Highlighted Improvements to Text of NBhÅ« 104ā154 (307)
Appendix 7D: Alternate Version of Edition With Highlighted Improvements (316)
Appendix 8D: Digital Forms of Translation of NBhÅ« 104ā154 (317)
Appendix 9: Analytic Outline of NBhÅ« 104ā154 by Shodo Yamakami (318)
Appendix 10.1: New Analytic Outline of NBhÅ« 104ā154 (Overall) (324)
Appendix 10.2: New Analytic Outline of NBhÅ« 104ā154 (Detailed) (325)
Appendix 11D: Skrutable Text Processing Library and Web Application (328)
Appendix 12D: PramÄį¹a NLP Corpus, Metadata, and LDA Modeling Info (329)
Appendix 13D: VÄtÄyana Intertextuality Research Web Application (330)
Appendix 14: Sample of Yamakami Citation Benchmark for NBhÅ« 104ā154 (331)
Appendix 14D: Full Yamakami Citation Benchmark for NBhÅ« 104ā154 (333)
Appendix 15: VÄtÄyana Recall@5 Scores for NBhÅ« 104ā154 (334)
Appendix 16: PVA, PVin, and PVSV VaĢtaĢyana Search Hits for Entire NBhuĢ (338)
Appendix 17: Sample Listing of VÄtÄyana Search Hits for Entire NBhÅ« (349)
Appendix 17D: Full Listing of VÄtÄyana Search Hits for Entire NBhÅ« (355)
Overview of Digital Appendices (356)
Zusammenfassung (Thesen Zur Dissertation) (357)
Summary of Results (361
Exploring Written Artefacts
This collection, presented to Michael Friedrich in honour of his academic career at of the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, traces key concepts that scholars associated with the Centre have developed and refined for the systematic study of manuscript cultures. At the same time, the contributions showcase the possibilities of expanding the traditional subject of āmanuscriptsā to the larger perspective of āwritten artefactsā
Jewish Studies in the Digital Age
The digitisation boom of the last two decades, and the rapid advancement of digital tools to analyse data in myriad ways, have opened up new avenues for humanities research. This volume discusses how the so-called digital turn has affected the field of Jewish Studies, explores the current state of the art and probes how digital developments can be harnessed to address the specific questions, challenges and problems in the field
Proceedings of the 19th Sound and Music Computing Conference
Proceedings of the 19th Sound and Music Computing Conference - June 5-12, 2022 - Saint-Ćtienne (France).
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