Advances in Distant Diplomatics: A Stylometric Approach to Medieval Charters

Interfaces: A Journal of Medieval European Literatures ◽

10.54103/interfaces-08-10 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 214-244

Author(s):

Eveline Leclercq ◽

Mike Kestemont

Keyword(s):

Quantitative Analysis ◽

Large Scale ◽

Ground Truth ◽

Full Potential ◽

Proof Of Concept ◽

Writing Style ◽

Modelling Procedure ◽

Additional Support ◽

Gold Standards

The quantitative analysis of writing style (stylometry) is becoming an increasingly common research instrument in philology. When it comes to medieval texts, such a methodology might be able to help us disentangle the multiple authorial strata that can often be discerned in them (issuer, dictator, scribe, etc.). To deliver a proof of concept in 'distant diplomatics,' we have turned to a corpus of twelfth-century Latin charters from the Cambrai episcopal chancery. We subjected this collection to an (unsupervised) stylometric modelling procedure, based on lexical frequency extraction and dimension reduction. In the absence of a sizable 'ground truth' for this material, we zoomed in on a specific case study, namely the oeuvre of the previously identified dictator-scribe known as 'RogF/JeanE.' Our results offer additional support for the attribution of a diplomatic oeuvre to this individual and even allow us to enlarge it with additional documents. Our analysis moreover yielded the serendipitous discovery of another, previously unnoticed, oeuvre, which we tentatively attribute to a scribe-dictator 'JeanB.' We conclude that the large-scale stylometric analysis is a promising methodology for digital diplomatics. More efforts, however, will have to be invested in establishing gold standards for this method to realize its full potential.

Download Full-text

High Performance BLAST Over the Grid

Handbook of Research on Computational Grid Technologies for Life Sciences, Biomedicine, and Healthcare ◽

10.4018/978-1-60566-374-6.ch007 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 121-148 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Vincent Breton ◽

Eddy Caron ◽

Frederic Desprez ◽

Gael Le Mahec

Keyword(s):

Data Management ◽

High Performance ◽

Large Scale ◽

Proof Of Concept ◽

Experimental Platform ◽

Complex Problems ◽

Production Platform ◽

And Storage

As grids become more and more attractive for solving complex problems with high computational and storage requirements, bioinformatics starts to be ported on large scale platforms. The BLAST kernel, one of the main cornerstone of high performance genomics, was one the first application ported on such platform. However, if a simple parallelization was enough for the first proof of concept, its use in production platform needed more optimized algorithms. In this chapter, we review existing parallelization and “gridification” approaches as well as related issues such as data management and replication, and a case study using the DIET middleware over the Grid’5000 experimental platform.

Download Full-text

Using ANT to Uncover the Full Potential of an Intelligent Operational Planning and Support Tool (IOPST) for Acute Healthcare Contexts

International Journal of Actor-Network Theory and Technological Innovation ◽

10.4018/jantti.2013040103 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 5 (2) ◽

pp. 29-49 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Imran Muhammad ◽

Fatemeh Hoda Moghimi ◽

Nyree J. Taylor ◽

Bernice Redley ◽

Lemai Nguyen ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Network Theory ◽

Large Scale ◽

Actor Network Theory ◽

Operational Planning ◽

Full Potential ◽

Proof Of Concept ◽

Support Tool ◽

The Many ◽

Acute Healthcare ◽

Large Scale Clinical Trial

Based on initial pre-clinical data and results from focus group studies, proof of concept for an intelligent operational planning and support tool (IOPST) for nursing in acute healthcare contexts has been demonstrated. However, moving from a simulated context to a large scale clinical trial brings potential challenges associated with the many complexities and multiple people-technology interactions. To enable an in depth and rich analysis of such a context, it is the contention of this paper that incorporating an Actor-Network Theory (ANT) lens to facilitate analysis will be a prudent option as discussed below.

Download Full-text

Ensuring Quality of a Large-Scale Online Assessment for Nursing Students in the 21st Century

International Journal of Adult Education and Technology ◽

10.4018/ijaet.2020070104 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 11 (3) ◽

pp. 49-65

Author(s):

Emily Ng K.L.

Keyword(s):

Nursing Education ◽

Nursing Students ◽

21St Century ◽

Large Scale ◽

Multiple Choice ◽

Online Assessment ◽

Full Potential ◽

Validity And Reliability

The resources and time constraints of assessing large classes are always weighed up against the validity, reliability, and learning outcomes of the assessment tasks. With the digital revolution in the 21st Century, educators can benefit from computer technology to carry out a large-scale assessment in higher education more efficiently. In this article, an in-depth case study of a nursing school that has integrated online assessment initiatives into their nursing program. To assess a large class of first-year nursing students, a series of non-proctored multiple-choice online quizzes are administered using a learning management system. Validity and reliability are commonly used to measure the quality of an assessment. The aim of the present article to analyze these non-proctored multiple-choice online assessments in the context of content validity and reliability. We use this case study to examine online assessment in nursing education, exploring the benefits and challenges. We conclude that instructors have to determine how to use the full potential of online assessment as well as ensure validity and reliability.

Download Full-text

Ensuring Quality of a Large-Scale Online Assessment for Nursing Students in the 21st Century

Research Anthology on Nursing Education and Overcoming Challenges in the Workplace ◽

10.4018/978-1-7998-9161-1.ch002 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 26-39

Author(s):

Emily Ng K.L.

Keyword(s):

Nursing Students ◽

21St Century ◽

Large Scale ◽

Multiple Choice ◽

Online Assessment ◽

Full Potential ◽

Validity And Reliability ◽

Online Assessments

Download Full-text

A large and evolving cognate database

Language Resources and Evaluation ◽

10.1007/s10579-021-09544-6 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Khuyagbaatar Batsuren ◽

Gábor Bella ◽

Fausto Giunchiglia

Keyword(s):

Quantitative Analysis ◽

Transfer Learning ◽

Large Scale ◽

Knowledge Bases ◽

Language Diversity ◽

Writing Systems ◽

Current Version ◽

Cross Lingual

AbstractWe present CogNet, a large-scale, automatically-built database of sense-tagged cognates—words of common origin and meaning across languages. CogNet is continuously evolving: its current version contains over 8 million cognate pairs over 338 languages and 35 writing systems, with new releases already in preparation. The paper presents the algorithm and input resources used for its computation, an evaluation of the result, as well as a quantitative analysis of cognate data leading to novel insights on language diversity. Furthermore, as an example on the use of large-scale cross-lingual knowledge bases for improving the quality of multilingual applications, we present a case study on the use of CogNet for bilingual lexicon induction in the framework of cross-lingual transfer learning.

Download Full-text

Methodological Uncertainty and Multi-Strategy Analysis: Case Study of the Long-Term Effects of Government Sponsored Youth Training on Occupational Mobility

Bulletin of Sociological Methodology/Bulletin de Méthodologie Sociologique ◽

10.1177/0759106320939893 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 147-148 (1-2) ◽

pp. 200-230

Author(s):

Laurence T. Droy ◽

John Goodwin ◽

Henrietta O’Connor

Keyword(s):

Quantitative Analysis ◽

Long Term Effects ◽

Strategy Analysis ◽

Recent Emergence ◽

Modelling Procedure ◽

Potential Scale ◽

Long Term Impact ◽

Youth Training

Sociological practitioners often face considerable methodological uncertainty when undertaking a quantitative analysis. This methodological uncertainty encompasses both data construction (e.g. defining variables) and analysis (e.g. selecting and specifying a modelling procedure). Methodological uncertainty can lead to results that are fragile and arbitrary. Yet, many practitioners may be unaware of the potential scale of methodological uncertainty in quantitative analysis, and the recent emergence of techniques for addressing it. Recent proposals for ‘multi-strategy’ approaches seek to identify and manage methodological uncertainty in quantitative analysis. We present a case-study of a multi-strategy analysis, applied to the problem of estimating the long-term impact of 1980s UK government-sponsored youth training. We use this case study to further highlight the problem of cumulative methodological fragilities in applied quantitative sociology and to discuss and help develop multi-strategy analysis as a tool to address them.

Download Full-text

A Family With Autosomal-Dominant Progressive Sensorineural Hearing Loss

American Journal of Audiology ◽

10.1044/1059-0889.0501.23 ◽

1996 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

pp. 23-32 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Chris Halpin ◽

Barbara Herrmann ◽

Margaret Whearty

Keyword(s):

Speech Production ◽

Hearing Aids ◽

Role Models ◽

Speech Intelligibility ◽

Large Scale ◽

Speech Language Pathology ◽

The Family ◽

Patient Will ◽

Language Pathology

The family described in this article provides an unusual opportunity to relate findings from genetic, histological, electrophysiological, psychophysical, and rehabilitative investigation. Although the total number evaluated is large (49), the known, living affected population is smaller (14), and these are spread from age 20 to age 59. As a result, the findings described above are those of a large-scale case study. Clearly, more data will be available through longitudinal study of the individuals documented in the course of this investigation but, given the slow nature of the progression in this disease, such studies will be undertaken after an interval of several years. The general picture presented to the audiologist who must rehabilitate these cases is that of a progressive cochlear degeneration that affects only thresholds at first, and then rapidly diminishes speech intelligibility. The expected result is that, after normal language development, the patient may accept hearing aids well, encouraged by the support of the family. Performance and satisfaction with the hearing aids is good, until the onset of the speech intelligibility loss, at which time the patient will encounter serious difficulties and may reject hearing aids as unhelpful. As the histological and electrophysiological results indicate, however, the eighth nerve remains viable, especially in the younger affected members, and success with cochlear implantation may be expected. Audiologic counseling efforts are aided by the presence of role models and support from the other affected members of the family. Speech-language pathology services were not considered important by the members of this family since their speech production developed normally and has remained very good. Self-correction of speech was supported by hearing aids and cochlear implants (Case 5’s speech production was documented in Perkell, Lane, Svirsky, & Webster, 1992). These patients received genetic counseling and, due to the high penetrance of the disease, exhibited serious concerns regarding future generations and the hope of a cure.

Download Full-text