Hester Baer named MITH Fellow
MITH is pleased to announce that Hester Baer, Vambery Distinguished Professor of Comparative Studies for the 2014-15 academic year, has also been named a MITH [...]
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Sep 2014
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Feb 2013
New Version of Digital Mishnah Demo
We have released a new version of the demo. Much of the change is in styling and branding, but there are new texts added, some [...]
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Dec 2012
Asking Questions of Lots of Text with Weka
Adrian Hamins-Puertolas and Adam Elrafei are students in Team POLITIC, an undergraduate research team in the University of Maryland’s GEMSTONE honors research-focused honors college, mentored [...]
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Nov 2012
Answering the Mail: Digital Mishnah Project Update
I had promised to respond to comments on the Digital Mishnah demo, so, at long last, here goes. Request for greater highlighting of collation options [...]
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Nov 2012
An Undergraduate View of Data Mining with WEKA
Manpreet Khural is an undergraduate member of the Gemstone POLITIC undergraduate research team, led by MITH Faculty Fellow Peter Mallios. As we, Team POLITIC of [...]
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Oct 2012
Drowning in Texts
The comments on the Digital Mishnah demo deserve a full response (although the short response is: thank you and, in almost all cases, I agree). [...]
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Sep 2012
Digital Mishnah: Live Demo
I am pleased to say that with a lot of work on a lot of people’s part, there is now a live demo of the [...]
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Jul 2012
Digital Mishnah: Summer Update
In addition to getting the demo ready to go live–it’s ready to go!–this summer’s agenda has been to add texts and add reference material. We [...]
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May 2012
Almost Ready for Prime Time
We now have two versions of a demos up and ready to run. Both allow a user to pull data from the witness files, containing [...]
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May 2012
On Fish, FLA, and the Digital Humanities
My friend Sarah Wasserman, who is finishing up a brilliant dissertation on the idea and instances of ephemerality in 20th century American literature, recently sent [...]