A hermeneutical substructure for the reading of historical texts in mathematics classroom is described. It organized according to four transcendentals unity, truth, beauty and goodness, each which considered internally –with respect text itself – externally with both its relations mathematical thought general other cultural manifestations. Lead questions are provided category as also details re...

Multispectral imaging—a method for acquiring image data over a series of wavelengths across the light spectrum—is becoming a valuable tool within the cultural Correspondence: Melissa Terras, Department of Information Studies, Foster Court, University College London, Gower Street, WC1E 6BT, London. E-mail: [email protected] Digital Scholarship in the Humanities The Author 2015. Published by Oxf...

Recently, e-learning systems have begun to be used in companies and education institutions. The spread of e-learning is mainly due to development of the learning management system (LMS), which includes SCORM and WebCT. Therefore, the introduction of learning the web digital web digital texts have become much simpler. The increase of contents of the web digital texts has realized a wider range o...

This paper investigates stylistic changes in a set of Portuguese historical texts ranging from the 17 to the early 20 century and presents a supervised method to classify them per century. Four stylistic features – average sentence length (ASL), average word length (AWL), lexical density (LD), and lexical richness (LR) – were automatically extracted for each sub-corpus. The initial analysis of ...

Text reuse is commonplace in academia and the media. An efficient algorithm for automatically detecting and measuring similar/related texts would have applications in corpus linguistics, historical studies and natural language engineering. In an effort to explore the issue of text reuse, a tool, named Crouch, has been developed based on the TESAS system (Piao 2001) for comparing and measuring t...

Governmental systems and administrative organizations in Iran have been always in change throughout history. A position which was necessary in some centuries and was counted as an important governmental position was “Amirdadi”. The person who held this post was called Amir-e dad or Mirdad. Lexicographers have mentioned several different tasks for Amir-e dad. Some believe they are th...

Language technology tools can be very useful for making information concealed in historical documents more easily accessible to historians, linguists and other researchers in humanities. For many languages, there is however a lack of linguistically annotated historical data that could be used for training NLP tools adapted to historical text. One way of avoiding the data sparseness problem in t...

historical memory or collective memory, in studies on cultural history and history of ideas, is often neglected. it is sufficient, for example, look at the names and titles to learn of the common view of a nation. this is true about alexander’s image in our culture. in our culture and some others, alexander is a myth and sometimes a unique hero. shahnameh can demonstrate this historical memory ...