Cyclopaedia to Encyclopédie

From Cyclopaedia to Encyclopédie: Experiments in Machine Translation and Sequence AlignmentIt is well known that the Encyclopédie ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers began first as a modest translation project of Ephraim Chambers' Cyclopaedia in 1745 [1]. Over the next few years, Diderot and d'Alembert would replace the original editors and the project would be duly transformed from a simple...

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Federated Search and PhiloLogic -- from works to (someday) words

Over the past several years, the ARTFL Project has been developing the code infrastructure for the Intertextual Hub reading environment that federates heterogeneous text collections, extracting data from individual PhiloLogic4 instances and exposing that data to text analysis algorithms in order to allow users to navigate between individual and larger groups of texts related through shared themes, ideas, and passages.We have now adapted...

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Topic Models and Word Vectors

 The Intertextual Hub is built around several different algorithms to facilitate document search, similarity and navigation. In previous posts in this series, I have examined the applications of sequence alignment, topic modeling, and document similarity in various contexts. A primary objective of the Hub is to direct attention to particular documents that may be of interest.  Arriving at a specific document to consult, the...

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