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Arthur’s Authors
A new publication of mine (‘Arthur’s Authors. A Quantitative Study of the Rhyme Words in the Middle Dutch Arthurian Epic’) has recently been published in the latest issue of a Germany based journal with a rich scholarly tradition: Zeitschrift für deutsches Altertum und deutsche Literatur 142:1 (2013). The paper is in English and deals with authorship attribution. It pays a lot of attention to the famous Arthurian manuscripts related to Lodewijk van Velthem, such as the Lancelot Compilation. Many thanks to the editor for letting me publish the paper in ...
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Imperial Flanders
A new Dutch-language paper of mine has appeared in the latest issue of Queeste. Journal of Medieval Literature in the Low Countries. An English-language abstract of it goes below. The language of a majority of Middle Dutch secular manuscripts points towards a relatively small region as their place of origin: the triangular area in Southern Flanders between Oudenaarde, Aalst and Brussels. Recently, Berteloot correctly stressed the apparent awkwardness of this situation. In this essay I discuss this region’s special status as a part of Imperial Flanders (Rijks-Vlaanderen), the transition area ...
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Spring School Digital Humanities 2013 Nijmegen
Together with my good colleague Marten Düring I will be organizing a Spring School in Digital Humanities (3-5 April) at the Radboud University of Nijmegen — in close collaboration, naturally, with our Nijmegen team leaders Antal van den Bosch and Johan Oosterman. For this workshop we were granted a generous grant by the European Association for Digital Humanities (the former ALLC). I prepared this application with Marten during my time as an eHumanities visiting postdoc at the Radboud University of Nijmegen (Fall 2012). We are thrilled with the three excellent ...
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Talk at Amsterdam Colloquium
Next Friday (1 February 2013) I will be giving a talk in Amsterdam at the colloquium “Hand-made insights. Digital techniques in literary studies” (“Handgemaakte inzichten: digitale technieken in de letterkunde”, website). This meeting is organised by Yra van Dijk and Sabine Muller at the (happy!) occasion of the inauguration of Karina van Dalen-Oskam as a professor at the University of Amsterdam. I will amongst other topics present some of my recent work on authorship attribution, in collaboration with Marjolein Hogenbirk. I will also discuss with the role of serendipity — ...
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Upcoming talk at WIS Seminar
On Wednesday 20 February 2013 at 13:00 I will be giving an invited talk at the WIS Seminar, for the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Antwerp. An abstract goes below. More information can be found on the WIS website. Computation in style. Linguistic authorship attribution in historic and modern texts The CLiPS research group, led by Walter Daelemans, focuses on Computational Linguistics or the computational processing and understanding of human language. This research domain is becoming increasingly relevant nowadays, because of the solutions it can ...
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First review
A couple of minutes ago, the first review of my PhD was published on the platform of Textual Scholarship. It was written by my good colleague Joris van Zundert (Huygens/KNAW), who is an authority in the field of Digital Humanities. The review is positive – thanks, Joris! – but also develops a couple of critical thoughts that I should definitely bear in mind for my future work. Joris, moreover, correctly points out the lack of a decent general-purpose introduction to the field of stylometry in general. We’ve got work to ...