Using and evaluating TRACER for an Index fontium computatus of the Summa contra Gentiles of Thomas Aquinas

This article describes a computational text reuse study on Latin texts designed to evaluate the performance of TRACER, a language-agnostic text reuse detection engine. As a case study, we use the Index Thomisticus as a gold standard to measure the performance of the tool in identifying text reuse between Thomas Aquinas’ Summa contra Gentiles and his sources.Questo articolo descrive un’analisi computazionale effettuata su testi latini volta a valutare le prestazioni di TRACER, uno strumento “language-agnostic” per l’identificazione automatica del riuso testuale. Il caso studio scelto a tale scopo si avvale dell’Index Thomisticus quale gold standard per verificare l’efficacia di TRACER nel recupero di citazioni delle fonti della Summa contra Gentiles di Tommaso d’Aquino

Using and evaluating TRACER for an Index fontium computatus of the Summa contra Gentiles of Thomas Aquinas

This article describes a computational text reuse study on Latin texts designed to evaluate the performance of TRACER, a language-agnostic text reuse detection engine. As a case study, we use the Index Thomisticus as a gold standard to measure the performance of the tool in identifying text reuse between Thomas Aquinas’ Summa contra Gentiles and his sources.Questo articolo descrive un’analisi computazionale effettuata su testi latini volta a valutare le prestazioni di TRACER, uno strumento “language-agnostic” per l’identificazione automatica del riuso testuale. Il caso studio scelto a tale scopo si avvale dell’Index Thomisticus quale gold standard per verificare l’efficacia di TRACER nel recupero di citazioni delle fonti della Summa contra Gentiles di Tommaso d’Aquino

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

Tangling and Untangling the Trollopes: A Stylometric Analysis of Frances Milton Trollope, Frances Eleanor Trollope, Anthony Trollope, Thomas Adolphus Trollope, and Charles Dickens

This documentation accompanies 'Tangling and Untangling the Trollopes: A Stylometric Analysis of Frances Milton Trollope, Frances Eleanor Trollope, Anthony Trollope, Thomas Adolphus Trollope, and Charles Dickens', published in Victorian Review. Documentation includes a complete list of texts comprising the corpus, including links to the texts used, and a list of the 1,000 words used in the analysis

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

Digital Histories

Historical scholarship is currently undergoing a digital turn. All historians have experienced this change in one way or another, by writing on word processors, applying quantitative methods on digitalized source materials, or using internet resources and digital tools. Digital Histories showcases this emerging wave of digital history research. It presents work by historians who – on their own or through collaborations with e.g. information technology specialists – have uncovered new, empirical historical knowledge through digital and computational methods. The topics of the volume range from the medieval period to the present day, including various parts of Europe. The chapters apply an exemplary array of methods, such as digital metadata analysis, machine learning, network analysis, topic modelling, named entity recognition, collocation analysis, critical search, and text and data mining. The volume argues that digital history is entering a mature phase, digital history ‘in action’, where its focus is shifting from the building of resources towards the making of new historical knowledge. This also involves novel challenges that digital methods pose to historical research, including awareness of the pitfalls and limitations of the digital tools and the necessity of new forms of digital source criticisms. Through its combination of empirical, conceptual and contextual studies, Digital Histories is a timely and pioneering contribution taking stock of how digital research currently advances historical scholarship

The Computational Attitude in Music Theory

Music studies’s turn to computation during the twentieth century has engendered particular habits of thought about music, habits that remain in operation long after the music scholar has stepped away from the computer. The computational attitude is a way of thinking about music that is learned at the computer but can be applied away from it. It may be manifest in actual computer use, or in invocations of computationalism, a theory of mind whose influence on twentieth-century music theory is palpable. It may also be manifest in more informal discussions about music, which make liberal use of computational metaphors. In Chapter 1, I describe this attitude, the stakes for considering the computer as one of its instruments, and the kinds of historical sources and methodologies we might draw on to chart its ascendance. The remainder of this dissertation considers distinct and varied cases from the mid-twentieth century in which computers or computationalist musical ideas were used to pursue new musical objects, to quantify and classify musical scores as data, and to instantiate a generally music-structuralist mode of analysis. I present an account of the decades-long effort to prepare an exhaustive and accurate catalog of the all-interval twelve-tone series (Chapter 2). This problem was first posed in the 1920s but was not solved until 1959, when the composer Hanns Jelinek collaborated with the computer engineer Heinz Zemanek to jointly develop and run a computer program. Recognizing the transformation wrought on modern statistics and communications technology by information theory, I revisit Abraham Moles’s book Information Theory and Esthetic Perception (orig. 1958) and use its vocabulary to contextualize contemporary information-theoretic work on music that various evokes the computational mind by John. R. Pierce and Mary Shannon, Wilhelm Fucks, and Henry Quastler (Chapter 3). I conclude with a detailed look into a score-segmentation algorithm of the influential American music theorist Allen Forte (Chapter 4). Forte was a skilled programmer who spent several years at MIT in the 1960s, with cutting-edge computers and the company of first-rank figures in the nascent fields of computer science and artificial intelligence. Each one of the researchers whose work is treated in these case studies—at some stage in their relationship with music—adopted what I call the computational attitude to music, to varying degrees and for diverse ends. Of the many questions this dissertation seeks to answer: what was gained by adopting such an attitude? What was lost? Having understood these past explorations of the computational attitude to music, we are better suited ask of ourselves the same questions today

Newsletter : Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University No.80

Editorial Foreword … Takamichi Serizawa and Kisho Tsuchiya [3]Message from the Director: Reflections on FY2022 … Fumiharu Mieno [4]Pioneering New Fields with Informatics Knowledge and Methods: The Trajectory of Research, Development, and Practice --Reflecting on a life in research An Interview with Professor Shoichiro Hara to Commemorate his Retirement … Shoichiro Hara and Hiroki Baba [6]Beyond Nationalism? Revisiting the Youth Movements of the 1990s in East Timor and Indonesia … Takahiro Kamisuna and Kisho Tsuchiya [20]CSEAS Special Seminar “Knowledge Hegemonies and Autonomous Knowledge” with Syed Farid Alatas (National University of Singapore) … Takamichi Serizawa [25]Voyage to Autonomous Knowledge, with Farid Alatas … Syed Farid Alatas, Takeo Suzuki, and Zenta Nishio [28]Seeing Southeast Asia through Chinese-Language Newspapers … Gen Shibayama [35]Publications [37]MAHS [39]Visitor's Voice [42