The advent of “distant reading” methods has created the opportunity to look at texts in a new way. But with the shift from close to distant reading, there is also a danger of loosing sight of fine-grained text structure. Like any method, distant reading methodology is not theoretically neutral, but carries a bundle of presuppositions. In this pap…[Read more]

In this paper, the authors show the application and use of automated text network analysis based on ancient corpora. The examples draw from Ancient Egyptian sources and the Indian Mahābhārata. Different text-based network generation algorithms like “Nubbi” or “Textplot” are presented in order to showcase alternative methodological approache…[Read more]

The paper describes the preparation of a Buddhist corpus in the Middle Indo-Aryan language Pāli, which is available only in a flat TEI format, for content-based analysis. This task includes transforming the file into a hierarchical TEI P5 representation, followed by tokenisation (including sandhi resolution), lemmatisation, and POS tagging.