The MULINCO project (MUltiLINgual Corpus of the University of Copenhagen) started early 2005. The purpose of this crossdisciplinary project is to create a corpus platform for education and research in monolingual and translation studies. The project covers two main types of corpus texts: literary and non-literary. The platform is being developed using available tools as far as possible, and int...

Given multiple corrupted versions of the same text, as is common with ancient manuscripts, we wish to reconstruct the original text from which the extant corrupted versions were copied (typically via latent intermediary versions). This is a challenge of cardinal importance in the humanities. We use a variant of expectation-maximization (EM), to solve this problem. We prove the efficacy of our m...

This paper describes a query system on texts and literary material with advanced information retrieval tools. As a test bed we chose the electronic version of Dante’s Inferno, manually tagged using XML, enriched with a domain ontology describing the historical, social and cultural context represented as a separate XML document.

Why do we read literary texts closely? There are plenty of other things to do with literary texts, many of them more fun, some of them even interesting. But the interesting ones, though they may help us in our close reading, or may indeed challenge, limit, or secure its conditions of possibility, belong to other disciplines: psychology, linguistics, sociology of art, anthropology, area studies,...

The evolution of literary styles in the western tradition has been the subject of extended research that arguably has spanned centuries. In particular, previous work has conjectured the existence of a gradual yet persistent increase of the degree of self-awareness or introspection, i.e. that capacity to expound on one’s own thought processes and behaviors, reflected in the chronology of the cla...

This study is a joint project involving alcohol-addiction experts and experts on comparative literature, who selected and defined the literary texts that were employed. The research included long-term alcohol abstainers, members of aftercare supportive-therapy groups (n = 68). The research aimed to obtain some basic information about their reading habits, to test their responsiveness to various...

Idiolects are person-dependent similarities in language use. They imply that texts by one author show more similarities in language use than texts between authors. Sociolects, on the other hand, are group-dependent similarities in language use. They imply that texts by a group of authors, for instance in terms of gender or time period, share more similarities within a group than between groups....

the nemesis is of an antiquity among human society but its rules differ from the divine rules; because the human society has punished the convict without any special rule in past. in many cases there was not any relationship between the punishment and the crime. the divine religions had enacted special rules in order to make a relation between the punishment and the crime. the main goal of neme...