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Are the Digital Humanities per se quantitative in nature?

Prof. Dr. John Nerbonne
University of Groningen

Humanities Computing 

Are the Digital Humanities per se quantitative in nature?
When Feb 01, 2018
from 12:15 PM to 01:00 PM
Where University of Freiburg, Kollegiengebäude I, Room 1015
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The answer to this question is clearly negative, and for the record I'll show some examples in non-quantitative digital humanities, at least in scholarly editing in philology and in searching older texts. I'll nonetheless argue that the most interesting progress is being made in quantitative studies of texts -- stylometry -- including authorship identification and authorship profiling but also the "distant reading" of literature, following Franco Moretti and Matt Jockers.  The "macroanalysis" approach aims to characterize literary groups -- episodes, genders and nationalities, and there is no alternative to quantifying.