Examining the Past Digitally: Computational Explorations of Social Structure and Communication Across Cultures
Chair: Grandjean, Martin

Formalizing Concepts in the British Colonial India Corpus: A Computational Modeling Approach

T, Shanmugapriya

University of Toronto, India

This article aims to propose proficient concept-based models to formalize heterogeneous concepts from the non-standard British colonial India corpus using computational models.


Clan or Commune? A Socio-Historical Computational Analysis of Family Ties in Communal Living

Rappel Kroyzer, Or (1,2); Marmor, Yanir (1,3)

1: Tel Aviv University, Israel; 2: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel; 3: Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

Employing network analysis and archival data, this research explores family ties in a religious orthodox kibbutz over 90 years. It uncovers intricate familial networks within the community, providing new insights into the interplay between communal living and family structures.


Assessing Automatic Sentence Segmentation in Medieval Slavic Texts

Jouravel, Anna (1); Renje, Elena (1); Lendvai, Piroska (2); Rabus, Achim (1)

1: University of Freiburg, Germany; 2: Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Germany

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For medieval Slavic text provenance detection, as a preprocessing step we compared sentence segmentation using Stanza and UDPipe, both equipped with Old Church and Old East Slavic models. Results indicate that these tools struggle with diachronic Slavic data's linguistic heterogeneity, necessitating enhanced exposure to historical language variations.