Rebooting Cultural Heritage: Exploring the Intersections of the Historical through Digital Humanities
Chair: Metilli, Daniele

Comparative Analysis of the Elements of East and West Japanese Manzai in the Digital Era

Kawase, Akihiro; Okada, Asaki

Doshisha University, Japan

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This study compares the narrative complexity of Eastern and Western Japanese manzai (traditional stand-up comedy), revealing Eastern manzai's intricate, explanatory style and Western manzai's simpler, rapid-fire humor through network analysis.


Just the Type: Analysing Character Typology in Roman Comedy with RomDraCor

Beine, Julia Jennifer; Fischer, Frank; Illmer, Viktor J.

Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

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In this paper, we show how the features of RomDraCor facilitate differentiated digital analyses on character types in Roman comedy, focusing on stylometric approaches.


Pipeline for the Structuring and Publication of Language Resources

Kato, Kanji (1); Miyagawa, So (2); Nakagawa, Natsuko (2)

1: The Joint Support-Center for Data Science Research, Center for Open Data in the Humanities, Japan; 2: National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics

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We propose a pipeline model for creating machine-readable and user-friendly linguistic data from dictionaries, including handwritten, printed, and text data. We aim to enable all researchers and members of local communities to use the data for various purposes, thereby supporting language research and preservation efforts.