11 novembre 2016
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Giorgio Guzzetta et al., « Computing, memory and writing: some reflections on an early experiment in digital literary studies », Accademia University Press, ID : 10.4000/books.aaccademia.1491
In this paper we present the first steps of a research that aims at investigating the possible relationship between the emergence of a discontinuity in the study of poetic influence and some early experiments of humanities computing. The background idea is that the evolution of computing in the 1960s and 1970s might have triggered a transformation of the notion of influence and that today’s interactions between the field of natural language processing and digital humanities are still sustaining it.In order to do so, we studied a specific interdisciplinary project dedicated to the topic and we reproduced those experiments. Then we compared the results with different text mining techniques in order to understand how contemporary methods can deal with the rethinking of the notion of influence.