This research paper explores the roles of electronic texts in research projects in the humanities and seeks to deepen the understanding of the nature of scholars’ engagement with e-texts. The study used qualitative methodology to explore engagement of scholars in literary and historical studies with primary materials in electronic form (i.e., e-texts). The study revealed a range of scholars’ in...

in this paper the practice of medicine in ancient iran is studied. mythology of ancient iran has many references to how diseases were treated and medicine dispensed. there is even a mention of surgery; presumably the rst caesarian section in the history of medicine is performed for the birth of mythological persian hero, rostam. this study looks at mythology, ancient persian religious texts an...

[email protected] University of Cologne, Albertus-Magnus Platz, 50923 Cologne, Germany Abstract This technical report describes the framework used for processing three large Portuguese corpora. Two corpora contain texts from newspapers, one published in Brazil and the other published in Portugal. The third corpus is Colonia, a historical Portuguese collection containing texts written...

The identification of pseudepigraphic texts – texts not written by the authors to which they are attributed – has important historical, forensic and commercial applications. We introduce an unsupervised technique for identifying pseudepigrapha. The idea is to identify textual outliers in a corpus based on the pairwise similarities of all documents in the corpus. The crucial point is that docume...

In this paper we look at a task in historical linguistics and the study of language development, namely that of identifying the time when a text was written. The novelty is that we evaluate our classifier and our selected features on literary texts having their action placed in the past and written so as to give off the impression of the respective epoch. We investigate several types of feature...

Medical science is as old as human history and the need for disease treatment. Archivists, researchers and historians are collaborating in the project to preserve the documentary inheritance and make the medical science useful to the public. This research aims to identify and analyze the first registered sport injuries in the history of medicine. After a review of the literature, the Homeric ep...

We describe the background for and building of IcePaHC, a one million word parsed historical corpus of Icelandic which has just been finished. This corpus which is completely free and open contains fragments of 60 texts ranging from the late 12 century to the present. We describe the text selection and text collecting process and discuss the quality of the texts and their conversion to modern I...

I. What Is Syriac? II. Why Study It? a. Biblical Studies b. Patristic Studies c. Liturgical Studies d. Early Syriac Christianity e. Syriac Poetry f. Syriac as a Bridge Culture III. Th e Scope of Syriac Literature IV. Th e Place of Syriac among the Aramaic Dialects V. Tools a. Grammars b. Anthologies of Texts (Chrestomathies) c. Dictionaries d. Main Editions of the Syriac Bible e. Histories of S...

his article, “history, adaptation and appropriation in cinema”, based on descriptive and analytical approach, tries to clarify new less known theoretical perspectives towards history, narrative and adaptation. the importance of the issue is intensified by the increased number of films adapted from historical texts. in other words, history texts have always been a source for film production, esp...