Some additional thoughts on regular expressions… for text analysis
In an earlier post here on The Digital Orientalist, Mariana Zorkina introduced the topic of regular expressions (or in short…
Category: Sinology
Quantitative Scholarship as “Low Tech” Digital Humanities
This is a guest post by Ruth Mostern, University of Pittsburgh@ruthmostern Like all terms for disciplines and methodologies, the digital…
The evolution of Kaom.net
Guyin xiaojing 古音小鏡 is a database that gathers data and tools for Old Chinese linguistics, but not exclusively. I previously…
Can I automate the boring stuff with ChatGPT?
A quick API solution for a Chinese text classification task– and its limitations. This is a guest post by Tilman…
A Review of MARKUS: More than Marking Up Classical Chinese
The technology of Natural Language Processing (NLP) identifies named entities, which are words or phrases referring to specific people, places,…
The Database of Medieval Chinese Texts: A Critical Overview (part two)
This is a guest post by Laurent Van Cutsem (Ghent University). Part II: The Database of Medieval Chinese Texts: A Critical…
Digital Resources for Chinese Bronze Research: The Academia Sinica Collection (Part 2)
Part I of this two-part assessment of the Academia Sinica’s bronze inscription research tools examined key features of the ‘Shang…
The Database of Medieval Chinese Texts: A Critical Overview (part one)
This is a guest post by Laurent Van Cutsem (Ghent University). Part 2 can be read here. Part I: The…
Databases of premodern Chinese manuscripts and languages upped their game.
And they are playing to win. In a post from 2021, I introduced the database Guyin xiaojiing 古音小鏡 (Little Mirrors…
Digitizing Chinese Minority Textiles: An Interview with Sun Xiaolin
This is an interview with Sun Xiaolin, former M.A. student at Loyola University Chicago and current Ph.D. student at the…