| RF-50003-09 | Research Programs: Fellowships at Digital Humanities Centers | University of Chicago | Sources of Enlightenment: Identifying Borrowed Passages in the Encyclopedie using Sequence Alignment. | 7/1/2009 - 3/31/2010 | $50,400.00 | Robert | | Morrissey | | | | University of Chicago | Chicago | IL | 60637-5418 | USA | 2009 | French Language | Fellowships at Digital Humanities Centers | Research Programs | 50400 | 0 | 50400 | 0 |
Stanford University professor Dan Edelstein and the ARTFL project of the University of Chicago propose to bring the power of machine-assisted learning and text-mining techniques to bear on the difficult question of the Encyclopedie's relationship to past thinkers. Data-mining techniques will allow us to focus on all forms of citation, allusion, borrowing, and outright plagiarism in the Encyclopedie, through which we hope to reach a more thorough and quantified understanding of the status and state of knowledge in the Age of Enlightenment while at the same time reflecting on the use and development of data-mining techniques in the Humanities. |