Digital Scholarship in the Humanities (DSH) Vol. 40 Issue 2 - Paper Highlights (《数字人文学刊》2025年第2期论文荐读)

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[AI Summary]: This article presents highlights from Digital Scholarship in the Humanities (DSH) Volume 40, Issue 2 (June 2025), featuring 10 significant papers in digital humanities research. The collection showcases diverse methodologies including: object detection for historical coin analysis using CLIP models; geographical mapping of place references in Shakespeare’s tragedies; keyword analysis distinguishing topic and register in parliamentary discourse; eye-tracking studies of Chinese poetry-painting aesthetics; OCR-based handwriting analysis of Renaissance manuscripts; evolution of Chinese music in the digital age; computational analysis of Ming Dynasty military officials using Ming Shilu; distant reading of Soviet diaries; and emotional arc patterns in adventure narratives from Project Gutenberg. These papers demonstrate the breadth of computational approaches being applied to humanities research, from computer vision and natural language processing to statistical modeling and digital archival methods.

  • Source: Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, Volume 40, Issue 2
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Language: Chinese introduction with bilingual abstracts
  • Access: https://academic.oup.com/dsh/issue