Current Book Projects
Handbook for Computational Philology
Intertextuality of the Early Chinese Canons (all pre-Song 宋 excavated & transmitted texts)
Current Academic Research Projects
For selected Digital Humanities projects, see Portfolio
AI, LLMs and RAG for Humanities data (knowledge graph modeling)
Effective teaching strategies for AI in the Humanities
Digital EDOC 2.0: Comparative Premodern Chinese Phonology/Phonorhetoric at Scale
DeepScribe: Computer Vision + OCR for Cuneiform (Elamite/Akkadian/Sumerian)
The Messkataloge: Digitizing the History of German Book Publishing
Deep Learning and AI Approaches to Large-Scale Premodern Canons/Corpora
Intertextuality at Scale: the Chinese Classics (經典文學), Excavated Texts (出土文獻) and the Taoist and Buddhist Canons (道藏/佛藏)
OCR, Systematization and Building LLMs with the UChicago Library Rare Chinese and Tibetan Manuscripts
Deriving a Lexical Database from Ancient Glosses: the Jīngdiǎn shìwén 《經典釋文》 and Early Chinese Lexicography
Computational Approaches to Rhetoric and Argumentation in Early Confucianism and Taoism
Sounds of the Gods: Homoioteleuton Ὁμοιοτέλευτον in Ancient Greek, Roman, Chinese and Sumerian Ritual
Algorithmic Analyses of the Phonetic System of the Guǎngyùn 《廣韻》 Rhyme Dictionary
Tang Poetics: Computing the zè 仄 of Du Fu 杜甫
Piánwén 駢文 Parallel Prose Style from the Western Zhou 西周 to the Eastern Han 東漢
From Wu-hu! 「嗚呼」 to Wu-hu ai-zai! 「嗚呼哀哉」 : An Outcry in Early China
Great and Terrible: Yáng 陽 Rhyme Group Words in the Classic of Poetry 《詩經》
J.Tharsen Downloads: 2007 Academic Papers and Essays (PDFs)