Current approaches in Digital .Humanities tend to ignore a central aspect of any hermeneutic introspection: the intrinsic vagueness of analyzed texts. Especially when dealing with historical documents neglecting vagueness has important implications on the interpretation of the results. In this paper we present current limitation of annotation approaches and describe a current methodology for an...

This paper focuses on a set of structured document applications that we have denoted databases of historical documents. The information into these documents is closely related to the time in which they are created while being still of great usefulness in the future. The main contribution of this paper is the formulation of a group of operators and predicates that express retrieval conditions ov...

How does the magnitude of the output response to a change in government spending vary over the business cycle? What are the welfare effects of fiscal shocks? This paper studies the state-dependence of the output and welfare effects of shocks to government purchases in a DSGE model with a number of real and nominal frictions and a rich fiscal financing structure. Both the output multiplier (the ...

The development of IC industry in Taiwan began with a technology transfer from the U.S. based RCA Company, which was conducted by Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI). ITRI’s Technology Transfer Team (TTT) members were first incubated in the National Laboratories at ITRI, and then dispatched to spin-off companies in the Hsinchu Science and Industrial Park (HSIP). Many of these TTT me...

The Qing Imperial Court documents are a major source of primary research material for studying the Qing era China since they provide the most direct and first-hand details of how national affairs were handled. However, the way Qing archived these documents has made it cumbersome to collect documents covering the same event and rebuild their original contexts. In this paper, we describe some inf...

archaeology and history might have many things to do with each other in historical past and present field. both of them belong to the same category of our historical knowledge. pickax of archaeologists have been raised from the pen of historians after the fundamental and revolutionary changes occurred in the historical thoughts and understanding of history. the main task of both as an academic ...