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AI Bias-Cancelling for the Interpretation of a Late Qing Dynasty Text
AI, Chinese Language, New Post, Sinology

AI Bias-Cancelling for the Interpretation of a Late Qing Dynasty Text

This contribution is based on a presentation given at The Digital Orientalist’s Virtual Conference 2025 (AI and the Digital Humanities) … Continue reading AI Bias-Cancelling for the Interpretation of a Late Qing Dynasty Text

Digital Humanities in Motion: When Pop Culture Rewrites Aging
Korean Studies, New Post, Social Media, Theory

Digital Humanities in Motion: When Pop Culture Rewrites Aging

This guest contribution was written by Virgine Borges de Castilho Sacoman, MS to PhD student in Sociology at the University … Continue reading Digital Humanities in Motion: When Pop Culture Rewrites Aging

From Print to Place: Creating an Integrative Geolocalization Workflow Using Citizen Scientists and Computer Vision AI
AI, Conference Proceedings, Digital Cartography, Online Resources, Visualization, Workflow

From Print to Place: Creating an Integrative Geolocalization Workflow Using Citizen Scientists and Computer Vision AI

This contribution is based on a presentation given at The Digital Orientalist’s Virtual Conference 2025 (AI and the Digital Humanities) … Continue reading From Print to Place: Creating an Integrative Geolocalization Workflow Using Citizen Scientists and Computer Vision AI

Imagining a Contextual Tech for Indian Languages: A Postcard from Bahu Bhasa 2025
AI, Apps, Archiving, Coding, Conference, Digitization, Indian Studies, Machine Learning, OCR, Online Resources, Social Media, Software

Imagining a Contextual Tech for Indian Languages: A Postcard from Bahu Bhasa 2025

Building on the conversations initiated under the Future of the Commons (overviews of which can be found here and here), … Continue reading Imagining a Contextual Tech for Indian Languages: A Postcard from Bahu Bhasa 2025

Comparing Sentiments in Yuan Zhen’s and Bai Juyi’s Poetry: A Computational Analysis Across Time and Space (Part 2)
Conference Proceedings, Digital Cartography, Sinology, Visualization

Comparing Sentiments in Yuan Zhen’s and Bai Juyi’s Poetry: A Computational Analysis Across Time and Space (Part 2)

This is the second and final part of a contribution based on a presentation given at The Digital Orientalist’s Virtual … Continue reading Comparing Sentiments in Yuan Zhen’s and Bai Juyi’s Poetry: A Computational Analysis Across Time and Space (Part 2)

Why Extracting Hindi Text from PDFs Is So Much Harder Than English (And How You Can Do It)
New Post, OCR, Workflow

Why Extracting Hindi Text from PDFs Is So Much Harder Than English (And How You Can Do It)

As a Digital Humanities student working with Hindi-language texts, I expected extracting text from a Hindi PDF to be a … Continue reading Why Extracting Hindi Text from PDFs Is So Much Harder Than English (And How You Can Do It)

Comparing Sentiments in Yuan Zhen’s and Bai Juyi’s Poetry: A Computational Analysis Across Time and Space (Part 1)
Conference Proceedings, Digital Cartography, Sinology, Visualization

Comparing Sentiments in Yuan Zhen’s and Bai Juyi’s Poetry: A Computational Analysis Across Time and Space (Part 1)

This is the first part of a contribution based on a presentation given at The Digital Orientalist’s Virtual Conference 2025 … Continue reading Comparing Sentiments in Yuan Zhen’s and Bai Juyi’s Poetry: A Computational Analysis Across Time and Space (Part 1)

Teaching Bengali Digital Texts to Anglophone Undergraduates: What Voyant Reveals about the Infrastructural Bias of DH Tools
DH in Practice, New Post, OCR, South Asian Studies, Teaching

Teaching Bengali Digital Texts to Anglophone Undergraduates: What Voyant Reveals about the Infrastructural Bias of DH Tools

In designing an introductory Digital Humanities class, I am often faced with the question of how best to incorporate linguistic … Continue reading Teaching Bengali Digital Texts to Anglophone Undergraduates: What Voyant Reveals about the Infrastructural Bias of DH Tools

AI Ethics and the Humanities: A Perspective from Buddhist Studies
AI, Apps, Buddhist Studies, Conference Proceedings, DH in General

AI Ethics and the Humanities: A Perspective from Buddhist Studies

This contribution is based on a presentation given at The Digital Orientalist’s Virtual Conference 2025 (AI and the Digital Humanities) … Continue reading AI Ethics and the Humanities: A Perspective from Buddhist Studies

Chorded Input and the Japanese Language: An Introduction and Invitation
DH in General, Hardware, Japanese Studies, Software, Theory

Chorded Input and the Japanese Language: An Introduction and Invitation

Those of us who use languages written in the Latin alphabet likely don’t think much about how we input text. … Continue reading Chorded Input and the Japanese Language: An Introduction and Invitation

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