Text as Data: Digital Humanities for Text Analysis

Text as Data

Digital humanities provide us with new research pathways that enable us to answer questions that are difficult or impossible to resolve using traditional approaches, this often because the data explored are larger or more complex than what is casually apprehensible by researchers. This panel assembles interventions discussing research endeavors that approach text as data by means of computational methods. The presentations span over five oriental regions and cover a varied array of research topics that requires of us to think about encoding, processing, interpreting and disseminating textual data and associated research results.

Organizers : Émilie Pagé-Perron & Timothy Bellefleur

ANE II - Chair: Adheesh Sathaye

Friday March 17th 3:30 - 5:30 PM, Bunker Hill Room

Text, Code and Data Visualization: Analyzing a Travel Journal from the ‘Golden Age’ of Egyptian Archaeology - Sarah L. Ketchley
Textual Intranets: Using Linked Data to comprehend manuscript traditions - Timothy Bellefleur
Cuneiform Technical Recipes as Semantic Networks - Eduardo Escobar
Break
Digital Demotic: Opportunities and Challenges - Christian Casey
Network analysis for social disambiguation - Adam Anderson

ANE IV - Chair: David I. Owen

Saturday March 18th 2-5 PM, Bunker Hill Room

Clustering Sumerian Literature - Niek Veldhuis
A computational analysis of syllabic sign values in late third and early second millennium Mesopotamia and Syria - Laura Hawkins
A quantitative method for identifying meaningful groups of people in administrative cuneiform archives - Émilie Pagé-Perron
Break
The Ras Shamra Tablet Inventory, a textual and archaeological research project in the OCHRE database environment - Miller Prosser
They all have the same name! Using Berkeley Prosopography Services to tame the Hellenistic Uruk onomasticon - Laurie Pearce
A statistical experimental approach for studying relationships between animated entities in the Baʿlu Cycle of ʾIlimilku - Vanessa Juloux