Stylometry, 2004-current. Project on the possibilities for quantitative stylometric analysis of literary texts. This research is driven by both methodological as well as technical innovations. Methodological we introduce a more empirical approach by using statistical inference for validating hypotheses on authorship, style and topic changes etc. This empirical approach is levered by new digital technologies …
Joris van Zundert, ‘Arthurian Romance in Vector Space’. International Medieval Congress 2004. Leeds (UK), July 12 – 15, 2004. http://imc.leeds.ac.uk/imcapp/SessionDetails.jsp?SessionId=829&year=2004
Autonom, 2002-2004. An on line shared text analysis work bench. Tools included a project portfolio, a fast work-flow for semi automated lemmatization (for the purpose of statistical aggregation), NER (Named Entity Recognition) capabilities, concordancing, expandable KWIC (Keyword in Context), text generation. (Role: functional and usability design, development, conceptual architecture, research.)
Joris van Zundert: ‘Identifying intertext susceptible episodes in Middle Dutch Arthurian romance’. ALLC/ACH Conference 2004. Göteborg University (SWE), June 11 – 16, 2004. http://www.hum.gu.se/allcach2004/AP/html/prop56.html
BNTL (Bibliografie van de Nederlandse Taal- en Literatuurwetenschap), 2000 – current. Project to realize a new on line biblography for this once PICA-database containing about 350.000 bibliographic metadata items. The three main goals of the project are: 1) create and support a workflow that is less labor intensive while preserving output volume and quality; 2) …
Joris van Zundert: ‘Compressing a medieval Dutch clerk’. Computational Philology: Tradition versus Innovation. Castelvecchio Pascoli (IT). September 6 – 11, 2003. http://www.ilc.cnr.it/doc_manifestazioni/euroconference_final_programme.pdf
EVA (European Visual Archive Project), 2000-2002. The European Visual Archive is a searchable image resource containing thousands of historical photographs from the collections of amongst others the London Metropolitan Archives and the Stadsarchief Antwerpen. From a research perspective usability and metadata scheming were the more interesting aspects. (Role: functional and usability design, development, project organisation.) …
KennisLab, 1997-2000. An on line virtual knowledge center initiated by the former Dutch National Foundation for the Promotion of Science and Technology (Stichting Wetenschap en Techniek Nederland). It comprised in- and externally linked encyclopedic knowledge, personal note taking capabilities, virtual contact to committed experts. Intended users: pupils in secondary education, interested general public. It later …