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 ...
Understanding by Doing: Theorems and Construction Problems in Chinese translations of Euclid’s Elements
Invited by Prof. Han Qi at the Polytechnic University of Hong Kong, Department of Chinese History and Culture, Prof. Andrea Bréard will give a talk on
Understanding by Doing: Theorems and Cons...
During one month, in March 2024, Prof. Andrea Bréard will be Visiting Professor at the Centre de recherches historiques (CRH) of the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris. She will give four seminars during her stay:
1. Séminaire de Pablo Blitstein et Alessandro Stanziani,...
The journal Technology and Language has launched a new call for contributions that appeals to the interests not only of philosophers, linguists, and literary scholars, but also of cultural studies, biomimetics, mathematics and engineering.
“Translation - Theory and Technology” (deadline: Oct 5, 2...
Conceptualizing ‘One’ (一): Working Towards a ‘Unified’ Understanding
Similar to many languages in the world, numbers display a variety of meanings in Chinese and other East Asian languages that borrowed the characters associated with them from Han China. As Marcel Granet (1934) who discusses num...
A new book by Prof. Andrea Bréard has been published in the book series Bibliothèque Chinoise (Paris: Les Belles Lettres). On 704 pages, you will find a Chinese edition and a French translation of Li Shanlan's Duoji bilei 垛積比類 (Analogical Categories of Discrete Accumulations) from 1867, with a histo...
The Chair for Sinology with a focus on the Intellectual and Cultural History of China — Institute for Near Eastern and East Asian Languages and Civilizations — at FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg (Germany) invites applications for a position of a Postdoctoral Researcher (f/m/d) with an interest in the g...
Prof. Dr. Andrea Bréard and Dr. Catherine Goldstein (CNRS,IMJ-PRG, UMR 7586) will give a workshop on “Comparing traces: combinations in nineteenth-century China and France” in a module on “Inscribing and disciplining combinations” at the RESEARCH SCHOOL - Expressions of Mathematical Activity: Traces...
From December 5 to December 8, 2022, the sin-aps group The language of algorithmic mathematics is organising a four-day workshop, which aims at analysing the logic and syntax of mathematical texts: Greek, Latin, Chinese and modern mathematical formulaic texts. The workshop brings together scholars a...
