Computational Contributions to the Humanities.

At the University of Groningen we have emphasized a simple view of humanities computing as computing in service of the humanities. This means that we seek to answer scholarly questions in linguistics, history, and art history by using the computer, exploiting especially its ability to process large...

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Published in:Literary & Linguistic Computing Vol. 20; no. 1; pp. 25 - 41
Main Author: Nerbonne, John
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Published: Oxford University Press / USA Mar2005
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