Making a Basic Textual Analysis program in Python
Whether we are involved in Japanese Studies or Islamic Studies, Near Eastern Studies or African Studies, we are all likely…
Year: 2019
The Value of Digital Outreach
This post has grown out of a Twitter thread in which I addressed a criticism that myself and my husband…
Of browsers, keyboards, and fonts, with a focus on certain West African scripts
In previous posts I have discussed the process of encoding West African scripts into the Unicode standard. The question that…
Digital Orientalisms Twitter Conference (#DOsTC) Proceedings
On the 1st of June, The Digital Orientalist held the Digital Orientalisms Twitter Conference (#DOsTC). There were a total of…
Historical Storytelling with Twine
In the classroom environment, it can be difficult to create engaging materials that allow students to learn about the multi-causal…
The Schedule of the Digital Orientalisms Twitter Conference 2019, #DOsTC
Today, I have the pleasure to announce the schedule of the Digital Orientalist’s Digital Orientalism Twitter Conference (#DOsTC) which will…
The Outlook for ADLaM
Back in the 1980’s, as the story goes, two Fulani brothers growing up in Guinea took it upon themselves to…
Creating a “Launcher” Extension for Google Chrome
Users of Google Chrome have long been able to customize their browsing experiences by installing extensions; small pieces of software…
Minding Mende
A fair amount of source material in the Kikakui script of the Mende language of Sierra Leone has just been…
Japanese Text Segmentation and Analysis with Web ChaMame
In recent years, numerous pieces of open-source software for the segmentation and morphological analysis of Japanese text have been developed including…