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A Modest Proposal for Operationalising Dramatic Texts
Luca Giovannini1,2
1Universität Potsdam, Germany; 2Università di Padova, Italy
This methodological contribution deals with the problem of operationalising dramatic texts. More specifically, it introduces vectorisation according to structural features as a relatively novel and efficient option for accomplishing this task. Furthermore, it discusses potential and limitations of this methodology and presents some of its most recent applications in research.
Corpus-Based SKOS Development for Ukrainian Epigraphy: A Digital Approach to Preserving Heritage
Hamest Tamrazyan, Emanuela Boros
EPFL/Switzerland, Switzerland
This study presents a corpus-based approach to creating a SKOS vocabulary tailored for Ukrainian epigraphy. Integrating digital tools, NLP, and FAIR principles addresses gaps in cultural heritage preservation, offering scalable, efficient methods to document, analyze, and promote Ukrainian inscriptions while ensuring global research interoperability.
Geotropes: Situating Postcolonial Bestsellers in the Global Literary Marketplace
Matt Erlin, Douglas Knox, Sadahisa Watanabe, Claudia Carroll, Jey Sushil Jah, Tumaini Ussiri
Washington University, United States of America
Set against the backdrop of recent debates in postcolonial studies, this paper uses a series of quantitative proxies for the categories of "literariness" and "cosmopolitanism" to situate the works of the postcolonial authors writing in English within a larger corpus of translations from South Asian and European languages.
