- Updates from the Computational-Historical Group
The Computational Group is currently engaged in examining the BERT Latin model and its dynamic embeddings to assess their potential—in combination with static embeddings—for metaphor detection. Concurrently, the group is developing interactive visualisation tools designed to enhance semantic analysis and evolutionary interpretation. These tools would enable users—including the broader scholarly public—to visualize the semantic relatedness (proximity or distance) of lemmata (represented by static embeddings) derived from the NOSCEMUS dataset, accessible via an intuitive web interface in both 2D and 3D formats.
- Progress in the Digital-Philological Group
The Digital-Philological Group has made notable advances with the Early Modern Latin Alchemical Prints (EMLAP) digital corpus, with approximately 25 texts now carefully cleaned. Nonetheless, recent difficulties with the TRANSKRIBUS platform have temporarily slowed the digitization process of additional texts, presenting a significant challenge for ongoing work.
- New Publications
A review of The Unconscious of Thought in Leibniz, Spinoza, and Hume by Alessandro Nannini was published in Acta Comeniana 36, pp. 172-176. The book under review delves into profound philosophical questions concerning unconscious thought in early modern philosophy, offering a valuable and thought-provoking perspective to the field.
A research article on The Theory of Cognition in Transylvania (1629–1658):
The Herborn Tradition and the Influence of Dutch Cartesianism by Márton Szentpéteri was published in Acta Comeniana 36, pp. 9-35. Márton’s paper compares the two models of the theory of cognition established by the
Herborn encyclopaedists and by their successor in Transylvania, János Apáczai Csere.
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