383 research outputs found
Machine Learning Algorithm for the Scansion of Old Saxon Poetry
Several scholars designed tools to perform the automatic scansion of poetry in many languages, but none of these tools
deal with Old Saxon or Old English. This project aims to be a first attempt to create a tool for these languages. We
implemented a Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory (BiLSTM) model to perform the automatic scansion of Old Saxon
and Old English poems. Since this model uses supervised learning, we manually annotated the Heliand manuscript, and
we used the resulting corpus as labeled dataset to train the model. The evaluation of the performance of the algorithm
reached a 97% for the accuracy and a 99% of weighted average for precision, recall and F1 Score. In addition, we tested
the model with some verses from the Old Saxon Genesis and some from The Battle of Brunanburh, and we observed that
the model predicted almost all Old Saxon metrical patterns correctly misclassified the majority of the Old English input
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Armenia through the Lens of Time. Multidisciplinary Studies in Honour of Theo Maarten van Lint
From pilgrimage sites in the far west of Europe to the Persian court; from mystic visions to a gruesome contemporary “dance”; from a mundane poem on wine to staggering religious art: thus far in space and time extends the world of the Armenians.
A glimpse of the vast and still largely unexplored threads that connect it to the wider world is offered by the papers assembled here in homage to one of the most versatile contemporary armenologists, Theo Maarten van Lint.
This collection offers original insights through a multifaceted lens, showing how much Armenology can offer to Art History, History, Linguistics, Philology, Literature, and Religious Studies. Scholars will find new inspirations and connections, while the general reader will open a window to a world that is just as wide as it is often unseen
The Mother of All Pandemics: The State of Black Death Research in the Era of COVID-19 - Bibliography
The present bibliography was originally prepared for a webinar sponsored by the Medieval Academy of America in May 2020. The present version includes all citations added as of 30 August 2023. The Bibliography covers the Black Death as traditionally defined (the plague pandemic that struck western Eurasia and North Africa between 1346 and 1353) but sets it into new narratives of the early phases (13th through 15th centuries) of the Second Plague Pandemic, which touched major parts of Afro-Eurasia. The Bibliography will continue to be updated as a Google Doc, which can be found at this address: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1x0D_dwyAwp9xi9sMCW5UvpGfEVH5J2ZA/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=104263744463668175127&rtpof=true&sd=true
The Heritage Digital Twin: a bicycle made for two. The integration of digital methodologies into cultural heritage research
The paper concerns the definition of a novel ontology for cultural heritage
based on the concept of digital twin. The ontology, called Heritage Digital
Twin ontology, is a compatible extension of the well-known CIDOC CRM ISO
standard for cultural heritage documentation and incorporates all the different
documentation systems presently in use for cultural heritage documentation. In
the authors' view, it supports documentation interoperability at a higher level
than the ones currently in use and enables effective cooperation among
different users.Comment: Submitted to Open Research Europe. 30 pages, 9 figure
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