It is the aim of the CULTOS project to provide researchers in intertextual studies with a collaborative multimedia platform for the authoring, management, search, exchange, and presentation of Intertextual Threads (ITTs), knowledge structures that interrelate and compare cultural artefacts. By means of the CULTOS platform, researchers will be able to create a world-wide collection of multimedia...

In this work, we employ quantitative methods from the realm of statistics and machine learning to develop novel methodologies for author attribution and textual analysis. In particular, we develop techniques and software suitable for applications to Classical study, and we illustrate the efficacy of our approach in several interesting open questions in the field. We apply our numerical analysis...

Intertextuality is the presence of one text contained within another. Hidden intertextuality is a problem for scientific publications. We propose a detection method combining calculation of intertextual distance and several classifications with the technique of the ”sliding window” (to pinpoint any duplicated excerpts). This method is tested using a group of texts extracted from the IEEE biblio...

This article explores the labeling of the iPhone as the ‘Jesus phone’ in order to demonstrate how religious metaphors and myth can be appropriated into popular discourse and shape the reception of a technology. We consider the intertextual nature of the relationship between religious language, imagery and technology and demonstrate how this creates a unique interaction between technology fans a...

Dimitrios Kokkinakis and Mats Malm Introduction Multifaceted relations between texts can be complex, abstract, diverse or subtle. Digital humanists are interested in identifying pairs of text passages likely to contain substantial overlap and empirically supporting (hopefully) new interpretations of historical texts. For instance, Cordell [3] discusses how digital interpretive tools can help ma...

Accessing textual information is still a complex activity when users have to browse through large corpora or long texts. In order to help users in such tasks, we propose a model dedicated to lexical representation of thematic domains as well as tools for personal corpora analysis. The lexical model is a differential one, inspired by Saussure's semiotics. It consists in structuring and describin...