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Asibot

Asibot

Asibot is an assistive creative writing interface that uses stylometry to automatically generate new text on the basis of the user’s input. Asibot’s artificial intelligence algorithm was trained on the basis of over 10.000 literary works in Dutch.
MOOC Middelnederlands

MOOC Middelnederlands

The MOOC Middelnederlands aims to bring the highlights of Middle Dutch literature to a broad audience in the form of a series of open online colleges (Massive Open Online Course). Project description (and colleges) all in Dutch.
Digitization of Philippine Rare Perodicals and Training in DH

Digitization of Philippine Rare Perodicals and Training in DH

This TEAM project funded by VLIR-UOS is a collaboration between the University of Antwerp and the University of the Philippines System that combines an exchange of DH expertise and training with a specific digitization project of rare Philippine newspapers and magazines. The Universtity of Antwerp’s project two promotors are Mike Kestemont and Dirk Van Hulle, and it will be implemented by Rocío Ortuño.
INSIGHT

INSIGHT

INSIGHT is a research project that targets the digital assets of two museum clusters in Brussels: Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium and Royal Museums of Art and History. This project aims to deploy the recent advances in Artificial Intelligence (language technology and computer vision in particular) to support the enrichment of these collections with descriptive metadata.
ManuscriptDesk

ManuscriptDesk

The Manuscript Desk is an online environment in which manuscript pages can be uploaded, manuscript pages can be transcribed, and collations of transcriptions can be performed. The Manuscript Desk builds on, and extends different software components used in the Digital Humanities. The project is open-source, licenced under the GNU License.
James Joyce Digital Library

James Joyce Digital Library

This project reconstructs James Joyce’s writing process for Finnegans Wake by tracing intertextual references in the published work back to source materials in his personal library through the author’s draft materials.
Sheherazade of Literatuur als Losprijs

Sheherazade of Literatuur als Losprijs

This digital exhibition has been designed to give users an insight into the writing process and manuscripts that went into the creation of the collection of stories Sheherazade by the Flemish writer Raymond Brulez (1895-1972) published in 1932.
BDMP Encoding Manual

BDMP Encoding Manual

This website contains the official and most up-to-date version of the Encoding Manual used by the Beckett Digital Manuscript Project (BDMP) for encoding Samuel Beckett’s manuscripts in TEI-compliant XML. The primary purpose of this website is to serve as an encoding resource for our collaborators, but since we think this information may also be useful for other researchers working on similar materials, we wanted to open up the Encoding Manual to the general public tool.
Belgium is Happening

Belgium is Happening

An online resource for performance art, happening, and avant-garde theatre in Belgium.
Hugo Claus Interviews

Hugo Claus Interviews

A digitised collection of interviews with Hugo Claus.
Stylene

Stylene

A stylometric tool that analyses the writing style of any Dutch language text (of limited size), and compares it to the writing styles of a corpus of Dutch language authors.
Ottoman Diplomats

Ottoman Diplomats

This website offers access to the diplomatic reports of Ottoman envoys in Belgium (1849–1914). They are made available here for the first time in high-quality photographic reproduction, together with key information on every dispatch (author, recipient, date, summary). The project has two objectives: to stimulate new research into Ottoman diplomacy, and to encourage revisionist histories of Belgium that engage with Ottoman sources.
Het Griekse Drama in de Nederlanden

Het Griekse Drama in de Nederlanden

This website offers datasets that containing a bibliography of translations and adaptations of ancient Greek drama texts in Dutch, as well as a preliminary analysis of these data.
Lexicon of Scholarly Editing

Lexicon of Scholarly Editing

The LexiconSE is an open access academic resource that offers definitions for contested concepts in the fields of Scholarly Editing and Textual Criticism from a variety of languages. Rather than writing new definitions for these concepts, the Lexicon gathers definitions from academic sources in order to reveal the lively multilingual debate they have spurred in the field.
Corpus Toneelkritiek Interbellum

Corpus Toneelkritiek Interbellum

Corpus Toneelkritiek Interbellum is a collection of documents from Flemish inter-war theatre criticism consisting of reviews and other short texts on theatre from diverse sources (newspapers, theatre journals, and book collections of reviews).
Hildegard of Bingen: Authorship and Stylometry

Hildegard of Bingen: Authorship and Stylometry

A documentary based on the scientific article: Kestemont, M.; Moens, S. & Deploige, J. (2015) ‘Collaborative Authorship in the Twelfth Century. A Stylometric Study of Hildegard of Bingen and Guibert of Gembloux’. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities 30.2: 199-224. https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqt063
Pattern

Pattern

Pattern is a web mining module for the Python programming language. It has tools for data mining (Google, Twitter and Wikipedia API, a web crawler, a HTML DOM parser), natural language processing (part-of-speech taggers, n-gram search, sentiment analysis, WordNet), machine learning (vector space model, clustering, SVM), network analysis and <canvas> visualization.
GIStorical Antwerp

GIStorical Antwerp

The major goal of GIStorical Antwerp is to build a micro-level data tool for historical Antwerp, but transferable to other cases as well, constructing a series of vector maps, linked to a variety of historical geo-data. Thanks to a unique combination of a critical mass of already existing databases and a clear focus on households as major agents of social behavior, we believe this cutting-edge tool will result in a truly innovative “integrated social history” of the city.
Archief Etcetera

Archief Etcetera

A digitised archive of printed issues of etcetera – a magazine for the performing arts in Dutch.
Beckett Digital Manuscript Project

Beckett Digital Manuscript Project

The purpose of the Beckett Digital Manuscript Project is to reunite the manuscripts of Samuel Beckett’s works in a digital way, and to facilitate genetic research: the project brings together digital facsimiles of documents that are now preserved in different holding libraries, and adds transcriptions of Beckett’s manuscripts, tools for bilingual and genetic version comparison, a search engine, and an analysis of the textual genesis of his works.
3Dtheater: Erfgoed in Beeld

3Dtheater: Erfgoed in Beeld

Virtual reconstructions of historical playhouses in 3D.
AMiCA: Automatic Monitoring for Cyberspace Applications

AMiCA: Automatic Monitoring for Cyberspace Applications

In the AMiCA project, we identify possibly threatening situations on social networks by means of text and image analysis. Our goal includes ensuring the online safety of children. There are three critical situations at the centre of our research: 1) cyberbullying, 2) sexually transgressive behavior, and 3) depression and suicidal behavior.