Location：Building 4 Room 231, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Title：Recent Developments of Digital Humanities in Taiwan and the China Biographical Database
The influences of employing digital resources and tools for humanities research grow significantly in recent years in Taiwan. Digital Humanities (DH) is the term for referring to this relatively new trend in the research community. In this brief talk, I will review the background for the current developments of DH in Taiwan, introduce the national plan for DH pedagogy in Taiwan, and present some interesting research DH projects in Taiwan. I will also discuss my work as a Fulbright and TUSA scholar at Harvard. We will see how computing technologies can be used to assist the construction of the China Biographical Database, which in turn is facilitating historical research about Chinese history worldwide. More specifically, we will go through examples of how we can extract information about named entities from historical documents that were written in classical Chinese.
台灣的人文研究者近幾年積極地運用數位資源與工具在他們的研究工作中。「數位人文」是這一發展趨勢的通稱。在這一簡報之中，我將回顧數位人文近幾年在台灣發展的背景資訊，報告目前國家正在努力推行的數位人文教學計畫，並且介紹一些實際的數位人文研究計畫。此外，我也將說明本次以傅爾布萊特與頂尖大學聯盟交換學人的角色在哈佛大學所參與的工作。我們將會看到哈佛大學的研究團隊如何利用資訊科技建構「中國歷代人物傳記資料庫」。這一個資料庫現在已經用於全世界各地許多關於中國歷史的研究中。比較精確地說，我將會介紹我們如何從以文言文所撰寫的歷史文本中抽取跟人物傳記相關的命名實體名詞。