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SP-05: Distant reading for Dictionaries, Poems, Maps and Travel Writings
Time:
Wednesday, 16/July/2025:
11:00am - 12:30pm
Session Chair: Irina Alexandra Feldman , Middlebury College
Location: B210 (TB) Zoom link to be included Only for extra workshops on Monday and Tuesday 60 places
Presentations
Wandering Voices: Exploring Europe’s Archaeological Paths on Paper
Alba Comino
Universidad de Jaén, Spain
This paper analyses how 20th-century Latin American women writers engaged with European archaeological heritage in their travel narratives, exploring emotional resonances and perspectives of otherness. Employing Digital Humanities tools such as XML-TEI, GIS, CIDOC-CRM, and sentiment analysis, it examines their perspectives, linking them to historical memory and political discourses in
Early Manila Hokkien: digitizing and analyzing a 17th-century Chinese-Spanish dictionary
Martina Scholger 1 , Elisabeth Steiner 1 , Sabrina Strutz 1 , Melanie Frauendorfer 1 , Hans-Jörg Döhla2 , Henning Klöter3
1 University of Graz, Austria; 2 University of Tübingen, Germany; 3 Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
The contribution focuses on the digital scholarly edition of a 17th-century Chinese-Spanish dictionary, the "Bocabulario de lengua sangleya por las letraz de el A.B.C." The manuscript offers valuable insights into the Southern Min language, also known as Hokkien, as spoken by Chinese immigrants in early Manila.
Classifying Poems in Qing Vernacular Fiction with ChatGPT
Rongqian Ma1 , Keli Du 2 , Yiwen Zheng1 , Zhibo Zhuang1
1 Indiana University Bloomington, United States of America; 2 Trier Center for Digital Humanities, Germany
In Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) vernacular fiction, embedded poems serve as a powerful narrative device. Some scholars described these poems as “parasitic," while others argue that they serve purposes far beyond mere embellishment. Our work uses cutting-edge computational methods to investigate the variety of narrative functions of embedded poems.
Mapping Empire: A Distant Viewing Approach to News Maps in Victorian Illustrated Periodicals, 1842-1890
Bethany Eve Warner 1,2 , Thomas Smits2
1 International Institute of Social History, Netherlands; 2 University of Amsterdam
This study analyzes 767 maps extracted from three Victorian British periodicals (1842-1890) using multimodal AI techniques. By clustering visually similar maps and extracting toponyms, our distant viewing of this corpus examines how news maps and imperial cartography intersected to shape public imagination of the British Empire through illustrated periodicals.
Modelo de datos para un corpus de viajeros en el Chaco boliviano a partir del caso de Louis-Émile Cerceau
Irina Alexandra Feldman 1 , Roberto Pareja 2
1 Middlebury College, United States of America; 2 Independent Scholar, United States of America
Un modelo de datos que formaliza un dominio de conocimiento en el campo de los estudios histórico-culturales bolivianos: un corpus de literatura de viajeros en el Chaco boliviano. Este corpus se presta a un análisis “lectura distante” porque involucra entidades muy variadas en cuanto al tipo y la distribución geográfica.
