Practical examples and theoretical reflections on the do's and don'ts of using digital tools for your study and research in African and Asian Studies.
This entry introduces a platform that utilizes Machine Learning (ML) algorithms from the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) to … Continue reading NLP Tools for Sinology: Introducing the WYD Platform
The China Biographical Database The China Biographical Database (CBDB) is ‘a relational database of biographical information for China before the … Continue reading The China Biographical Database (CBDB): An Introduction and Conversation with Professor Peter Bol
Tracking Drug Names Across Language, Time, Space and Knowledge Domains to Produce New Visions of Traditional Medicine This is a … Continue reading The Magic of Philology and Indexing
This is a guest post by Eric H. C. Chow. For more information, see at the end of this post. … Continue reading An Experiment with Gemini Pro LLM for Chinese OCR and Metadata Extraction
This post was prepared together with Tilman Schalmey. Find here the tutorial files for this post. As digital technologies develop, … Continue reading Introduction to Programming with Chinese
In an earlier post here on The Digital Orientalist, Mariana Zorkina introduced the topic of regular expressions (or in short … Continue reading Some additional thoughts on regular expressions… for text analysis
This is a guest post by Christopher Francese, Asbury J. Clarke Professor of Classical Studies, Dickinson College francese@dickinson.edu In 2016 … Continue reading The Digitization of a Large Latin-Chinese Dictionary
Guyin xiaojing 古音小鏡 is a database that gathers data and tools for Old Chinese linguistics, but not exclusively. I previously … Continue reading The evolution of Kaom.net
Since 2006, the French linguist community has had a tool for depositing the sound sources that document the world’s linguistic … Continue reading Cocoon: A Platform for Documenting the World’s Languages
A quick API solution for a Chinese text classification task– and its limitations. This is a guest post by Tilman … Continue reading Can I automate the boring stuff with ChatGPT?
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