Utterance frequency was argued to be a determinant of the semantic change of words. While it is known that frequency does promote formal erosion, frequency was shown to be negatively correlated with rates of lexical replacement (Pagel et al. 2007, …
Fifteen years of tracking down, researching and advocating for the world's minority scripts have shown me not only the astonishing variety and number of written forms in use (perhaps as many as 300), but that our standard definition and understanding …
Members from DHASA and the DigiMethods community will be running an innovative hackathon to develop demos in the area of digital media studies while creating a collection of reusable, modular code for using various methods to study social media, online newspapers and mobile media.
Our “archive fever” has given rise to the creation of digitised archives of non-public records, including prison and medical case files. In the United Kingdom, the Wellcome Collection has digitised the medical case files for several …
The talk will discuss a research project proposal aiming to create and evaluate the model of Universal Discourse: a unified, multilingual, corpus-based representation of text as a whole, going beyond the meaning of individual sentences to the level …
Over the years, it has been evident that language learners in South African schools struggle with reading at appropriate levels of comprehension and fluency. Despite numerous interventions to improve learners’ reading levels, the texts used in …
Don't miss out on a presentation on isiBheqe scripts, their typology & the speakers' experiences with the isiBheqe soHlamvu writing system.
Mark your calendars and make sure to secure your spot for the SADilaR DH Colloquium. Stay tuned for further …