The Changing Role of Textile Making: Text Analysis of Digitized “Lienü zhuan” with Voyant Tools (Part I)
Voyant Tools is a popular website that offers a series of text analysis tools for examining word frequencies, patterns, and…
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Online Resources for Chinese Palaeography – Part Two
My previous post introduced a fundamental bit of knowledge to work with online resources for Chinese Palaeography, namely the difference between graphs…
Making Custom Keyboard Layouts to Transliterate East Asian Languages
Many readers will likely be aware of the Digital Orientalist’s Keyboard Layouts (launched in 2014 and improved upon in 2017)…
Defining word boundaries for Modern and Classical Chinese
Basic corpus analysis is an amazing way to start exploring digital humanities. What could be easier? One just needs to…
Data Cleaning Chinese Text with OpenRefine: Punctuation Removal
So you have heard about some cool text analysis tools that identify word frequencies, generate word clouds, and look for…
Visualizing North China Under Japanese Occupation: Digitized Photos of the North China Railway Archive
Digitizing the Visual Legacies of the North China Transportation Company The North China Railway Archive (華北交通アーカイブ) is an online database…
Online Resources for Chinese Palaeography – Part One
In the field of early China, the end of the 20th century will be remembered by many as a time…
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Digitizing the Mongolian Language: An Introduction to the Polyglot “Online Dictionaries and Full-text Search of Mongolian Languages and Written Manchu”
What is the “Online Dictionaries and Full-text Search of Mongolian Languages and Written Manchu”? The Online Dictionaries and Full-text Search…
Some thoughts on regular expressions
What are regular expressions and why use them? Those who are interested in the digital humanities or corpus linguistics are…
Some tools for quickly transliterating Chinese characters
Students, librarians, and non-Sinologists who occassionally interact with Chinese language sources may want to speed up the process of transliterating…