by Peter Verkinderen | Mar 6, 2020 | What's new |
The OpenITI corpus was designed in a way that makes it easy for scripts to access, identify and analyze the texts in the corpus. As a human reader, it was until now not easy to find a particular text you are interested in: all texts have a filename that starts with...
by Ryan Muther | Feb 3, 2020 | What's new |
Due to its size and coverage, the OpenITI corpus is useful for a wide variety of research purposes. Particularly, it represents an excellent opportunity to apply computational methods from natural language processing and machine learning to solve problems not only of...
by Mathew Barber | Jan 10, 2020 | What's new |
In the past few months the KITAB team have been closely studying the issue of versioning and composite editions in the OpenITI corpus. The problem of versioning is as follows: For many of the texts in the corpus we possess multiple versions, often based on various...
by Gowaart Vandenbossche | Dec 3, 2019 | What's new |
Running passim on the OpenITI corpus allows us to identify a vast number of instances of text reuse, but the quality of these results from a historical point of view depends on the quality of texts in the corpus. As the material was pulled from various often...
by Sarah Savant | Mar 15, 2019 | What's new |
Paper abstracts are now welcome for the annual “Arabic Pasts: Histories and Historiography” workshop, to be held 18 and 19th of October 2019 at the Aga Khan Centre, London. More details. Share...
by Claire Savina | Nov 8, 2018 | What's new |
The “Arabic Pasts: Histories and Historiography” workshop was held in the new Aga Khan Centre in London on the 12th and 13th of October and featured papers treating history writing from the origins of Islam up to the present day. Organized by Hugh Kennedy,...
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