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[1] From: Elena Pierazzo <pierazzo@ital.unipi.it> (44)
Subject: Dante's works and other linguistic and literary
resources and tools from Pisa University
[2] From: "Seamus Ross, Director HATII" (56)
<s.ross@HATII.ARTS.GLA.AC.UK>
Subject: DigiCULT 5 October 2003
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Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 08:47:43 +0000
From: Elena Pierazzo <pierazzo@ital.unipi.it>
Subject: Dante's works and other linguistic and literary resources
and tools from Pisa University
This is to announce that The Humanities Computing research group
co-ordinated by Professor Mirko Tavoni at Pisa University has just released
the preliminary results of various research projects currently in progress.
The results have been published on a dedicated web site
(http://dante.di.unipi.it/ricerca/), where some of the research tools used
in these projects can also be accessed.
The aim of the main project was the production of the lemmatized and
grammatically marked up corpus of Dante Alighieri's complete vernacular and
Latin works. Other projects concern:
* Italian literatures authors’ letters
* Digital editions of librettos
* Pisa and Ferrara's texts
* Speech corpora
* Pinocchio Game: the experience of a group of PhD students in Italian
Studies based on and fitting the principles of Jerome McGann's Ivanhoe Game.
All texts are XML-TEI encoded and available both for consulting (many of
them as hypertexts) and linguistic querying. The user interface for
managing and querying the texts is also optimized for the same encoding
language. Querying is performed through the XCDE Search Engine, a tool
developed at Pisa University by Professor Paolo Ferragina
(http://butirro.di.unipi.it/~ferrax/xcde/xcdelib.html).
Both the texts and the tools (search engine and interface) in the web site
are open source and freely available for scholarly and non-commercial purposes.
The site is also offered as a public resource and open laboratory for
linguistic research. The laboratory, indeed, allows scholars interested in
linguistic research to send their own XML-TEI encoded texts for processing
by the XCDE search engine. Scholars are also free to eventually restrict
text access to a specific group of users.
These research projects are being carried out in the framework of the
research activities of the Dept. of Italian Studies
(http://www.humnet.unipi.it/ital/ ) and the advanced teaching activities of
the Degree course in Humanities Computing (http://infouma.di.unipi.it).
From the same web site it is also possible to access “Italian NLP”, a
collection of on-line tools for the Natural Language Processing of Italian
texts (http://foxdrake.ilc.cnr.it/webtools), developed by ILC- CNR
(Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale, Pisa) in collaboration with the
Dept. of Linguistics (Computational Linguistics Section) of the Pisa
University. The tools allow users to perform various levels of text
processing, such as tokenization, lemmatization and morphological analysis,
shallow parsing (chunking), dependency parsing, etc.
For further information, please write to: ricercalinguistica@humnet.unipi.it.
Elena Pierazzo
Research Group Assistant
Università di Pisa - Dipartimento di Studi Italianistici
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Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 08:46:28 +0000
From: "Seamus Ross, Director HATII" <s.ross@HATII.ARTS.GLA.AC.UK>
Subject: DigiCULT 5 October 2003
Issue 5 - A Newsletter on Digital Culture
October 2003, ISSN 1609-3941
Please welcome to the next edition in a series of e-journals from DigiCULT
Heritage Informatics continues to emerge as an exciting area for both the
application of new technologies and as a source for research challenges
that promote innovative technological developments.
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An extra day in Berlin after IFLA2003 provided an opportunity to visit the
Museumsinsel, one of the finest museum complexes in the world. Currently
many of its buildings are undergoing extensive renovations. As on my right
I passed the reopened Alte Nationalgalerie I noticed one of the buildings
currently wrapped for restoration was covered by a massive poster. In the
words Weltkultur beflügelt (world culture gives wings) it asks all who pass
to consider the liberating power of the cultural heritage. Articles in this
issue of DigiCULT.Info all show the power of new technologies in helping
cultural heritage institutions in achieving their objective of improving
the care, understanding and benefits of cultural heritage to individuals
and society. Reflecting on the phrase Weltkultur beflügelt, we are reminded
that technology is an enabler and not an end in itself.
Seamus Ross
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