Tracing connections between historical texts is an important part of intertextual research, enabling scholars to reconstruct the virtual library of a writer and identify the sources influencing their creative process. These intertextual links manifest in diverse forms, ranging from direct verbatim quotations to subtle allusions and paraphrases disguised by morphological variation. Language models offer a promising path forward due to their capability of capturing semantic similarity beyond lexical overlap. However, the development of new methods for this task is held back by the scarcity of standardized benchmarks and easy-to-use datasets. We address this gap by introducing Loci Similes, a benchmark for Latin intertextuality detection comprising a curated dataset of ~176k text segments and 1,490 expert-verified parallels, including 945 labeled references from an existing dataset. Using this data, we establish baselines for retrieval and classification of intertextualities with both lexical methods and pretrained encoder language models.
Identifying intertextual references is central to literary scholarship, but computationally difficult when source material is transformed through paraphrase, allusion, historical language, and translation. We investigate this problem through biblical intertextuality in Karen Blixen's Seven Gothic Tales. Drawing on the...
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The retrodigitization project of the Grande Dizionario della Lingua Italiana (GDLI) is presented, resulting in the development of a set of interoperable and interlinked resources that establish the foundations for innovative and advanced modes of accessing and exploring the rich and multifaceted content of this histori...
M. Biffi, Sebastiana Cucurullo, Manuel Favaro et al.· International Conference on...· 0 citations
High-level text preprocessing is introduced: a systematic, rule-based intervention applied before the standard preprocessing pipeline to isolate each document's actual claim from its discursive structure and introduces the semantic diffusion index (SDI), a per-document metric for assessing the semantic reorientation be...
This article examines the Kongu regional linguistic elements found in these novels and the local knowledge traditions they reveal and the need for and possibilities of documenting regional dialect literary works through digital humanities tools using Corpus Linguistics and Digital Humanities methodologies.
முனைவர் இல. பூவலிங்கம்· Tamilmanam International Res...· 0 citations
The article examines corpus-based analysis of strategies for reproducing intertextuality markers, based on a self-compiled parallel English-Ukrainian Sketch Engine corpus of David Lodge’s novels “Changing Places” (1975) and “Small World” (1984), and their Ukrainian translations by Tetiana Nekriach. The study employs co...
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