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Synapses are located in our central nervous system where nerve cells connect with each other. “Sin-aps” aims at making connections in our research which bring Chinese studies closer to the world of numbers.
Since the 1st of February 2021 Prof. Dr. Andrea Bréard is holder of the Chair of Sinology with a Focus on the Intellectual and Cultural History of China (Alexander von Humboldt-Professor) and Director of the IKGF (International Consortium for Research in the Humanities “Fate, Freedom and Prognostication”). Her research interests lie at the intersection of the mathematical sciences and sinology, both in history and in present times. Generously supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation her team conducts research on quantification in China (and its global repercussions), the epistemological aspects of algorithmic mathematics and their cultural transformations, as well as numerical techniques of prediction.
Florian Kessler will present a paper entitled "Towards Context-aware Normalization of Variant Characters in Classical Chinese Using Parallel Editions and BERT" at the ML4AL@ACL workshop on August 15, 2024 in Bangkok.
For the automatic processing of Classical Chinese texts it is highly desirable to ...
At the 25th Biennial Conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies (EACS) in Tallinn, Estonia (August 27-30th, 2024), a panel on China and Universal Languages in the Early 20th Century is organized by Prof. Andrea Bréard and Prof. Josh Fogel from York University, Toronto. There will be ...
DH 2024 is the annual conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations. This year, the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at their Arlington, VA campus, in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., hosts the DH 2024 conference from August 6-9, 2024, .
Florian Keßler will present...
On July 12, Florian Keßler will present the sin-aps database at the Conference Charting the European D-SEA: Digital Scholarship in East Asian Studies organised by the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and the Staatsbibliotkek zu Berlin.
The relational database was developed with HEU...
