Current Academic Research Projects
Developing new Deep Learning and A.I. 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)
Doctoral Dissertation (2015; monograph under contract and forthcoming from DeGruyter ca. 2024):
“Chinese Euphonics: Phonetic Patterns, Phonorhetoric and Literary Artistry in Early Chinese Narrative Texts”
For selected Digital Humanities projects, see Portfolio
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)