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.
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?
The technology of Natural Language Processing (NLP) identifies named entities, which are words or phrases referring to specific people, places, … Continue reading A Review of MARKUS: More than Marking Up Classical Chinese
This is a guest post by Laurent Van Cutsem (Ghent University). Part II: The Database of Medieval Chinese Texts: A Critical … Continue reading The Database of Medieval Chinese Texts: A Critical Overview (part two)
Part I of this two-part assessment of the Academia Sinica’s bronze inscription research tools examined key features of the ‘Shang … Continue reading Digital Resources for Chinese Bronze Research: The Academia Sinica Collection (Part 2)
This is a guest post by Laurent Van Cutsem (Ghent University). Part 2 can be read here. Part I: The … Continue reading The Database of Medieval Chinese Texts: A Critical Overview (part one)
This is a guest post by Aleksandra Piskunova. Have you ever wondered how readable texts are? What even makes a … Continue reading Measuring Readability of Texts: Theory and Practice (Part 1)
This is a guest post by Adam H. Lisbon. Many thanks to James Morris for coordinating it. In August of … Continue reading When CJK Metadata Gets Left Behind
In the second part of our exploration of the Yinxu Oracle Bone Inscription Digital Database 殷墟甲骨文數據庫 (YOD), we’ll continue our … Continue reading Cracking the Oracle Bones: The Yinxu Oracle Bone Inscription Digital Database (Part 2)
The Mogao Caves nearby Dunhuang were one of the most exceptional discoveries of the 20th century. Their textual, artistic and … Continue reading Navigating the Dunhuang Manuscripts Databases