Suggesting a Language-Specific Gender Perspective for AI Translation Research
This contribution is based on a presentation given at The Digital Orientalist’s Virtual Conference 2025 (AI and the Digital Humanities)…
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An Introduction to Conference Proceedings You May Have Missed: Unaccompanied Videos
Since November 2025, we have been publishing the proceedings of The Digital Orientalist’s Virtual Conference 2025 (AI and the Digital…
Voices from the Past: Retrieval-Augmented Dialogues with Chinese Historical Figures
This post was co-authored with Prof. Du Chunmei (Lingnan University, Department of History). History can feel like a silent discipline,…
Global DH vs. Area Studies: Rethinking “China and the West (Rest)” Beyond Lenticular Logic
In her essay “Why Are the Digital Humanities So White? or Thinking the Histories of Race and Computation,” Tara McPherson…
Exploring the Future of Library Cataloging with AI and Multilingual Embeddings
This post was written together with Sai Deng (Metadata Librarian, University of Central Florida) and Lihong Zhu (Head of Library…
To Merge or Not to Merge: The Pitfalls of Chinese Tokenization in General-Purpose LLMs
Tokenization, the process of transforming human text into machine-understandable units of meaning (tokens), is a foundational step in language modeling.…
Editor’s Digest January 2025: Chinese Studies
This year’s Editor’s Digest for Chinese Studies falls right after the Chinese New Year, so first of all let me…