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Please note that all times are shown in the time zone of the conference. The current conference time is: 14th June 2025, 06:10:53pm WEST
Session Chair: Owen Stuart Monroe, The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Location:B304 (TB)
64 places
Presentations
What do you do with 8 thousand billion variants? Toward structural and quantitative philology
Elena Pierazzo, Alice Gyde
University of Tours, France
The paper will present the first mounting of a new digital philological method tackling the issues of managing too many variant readings
Computational Methods for Authorship Attribution Using Citation Networks: A Case Study of a Rabbinic 14th century Talmudic Commentary
Binyamin Katzoff1, Maayan Zhitomirsky-Geffet1, Jonathan Schler2, Nati Ben-Gigi1
1bar-Ilan University, Israel; 2Holon Institute of Technology, Israel
The purpose of this paper is to examine the identity of the author of an anonymous Rabbinic commentary using a new methodology utilizing new digital tools to scan vast amounts of text and analyze citation networks and stylistic patterns which are not revealed through routine human analysis.
Disciplining Subjects: A Computational Approach to the Eighteenth-Century Order of Knowledge
Mark Andrew Algee-Hewitt1, Seth Rudy2
1Stanford University, United States of America; 2Rhodes College, United States of America
Our project a contextual embedding model to a corpus of eighteenth-century British text in order to study the evolution of language that prefigures the emergence of modern disciplinarity. Our presentation shows that modern disciplines evolved far earlier and in very different ways than traditionally accounted for in current scholarship.
Distant Viewing and Generative Exploration of Multimedia Heraldry in Early Modern Europe
Jeff Love
TU Delft, The Netherlands
This study utilizes distant viewing and generative machine learning to explore heraldic images from 1450–1700 and reveal patterns in their circulation and adaptation. It designs tools for heraldic identification and interpretation, integrating image classification and ontology-based explanations. Results inform future research and a Citizen Science initiative engaging broader communities.
Networking Nature: Early Victorian Science and Politics in the Mass Press
Owen Stuart Monroe
The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, United States of America
I argue that natural science discourse served as political rhetoric in mass produced British periodicals from 1826 to 1848. Digital methods reveal the incorporation of natural science discourse into popular periodicals in a network of reprinting, while close reading shows how natural science texts were recontextualized to produce political meanings.
