Development and Application of Ancient Books Digital Humanities Research Platform with Characters' Relationship Map - A Case Study of the Characters in the Ming Dynasty Ancient Books
2018
Hochschulschrift
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This research aims to develop the Books Digital Humanities Research Platform with Characters’ Relationship Map, which is able to identify the characters from the ancient books automatically. It also provides the user-friendly interface and helps humanities scholars to interpret characters’ relationship more efficiently and accurately by way of Human-Computer Interaction. Humanities scholars can discover the characters’ complex social network through the Characters’ Relationship Map to obtain useful findings. With experimental method, the research compared the outcomes with and without the Characters’ Relationship Map assisting humanities scholars to interpret the character and the characters’ relationship in the ancient books, and if there were significant differences in technology acceptance. Via semi-structured in-depth interviews, the research acquired humanities scholars’ opinions and perception about the Characters’ Relationship Map. The research utilized lag sequence analysis to analyze users’ behavior processes and achievements of using Characters’ Relationship Map as well as investigating the correlations between users’ behavior processes and achievements. The experimental results show that the system with the Characters’ Relationship Map is higher than the system without the Characters’ Relationship Map in both the interpretation of the character and the interpretation of the characters’ relationship, but not significant. The technology acceptance analysis reveals that the system with the Characters’ Relationship Map has significantly better technology acceptance than the system without the Characters’ Relationship Map. There is significant correlation between the achievements of interpreting the character and the characters’ relationship, but no significant correlation among users’ behavior processes. According to the interviews, respondents gave positive comments on the integration and operational fluency of the system interface. Many respondents believed that the Characters’ Relationship Map could help them better understand the context of the characters in the overall text, but the accuracy of the identification of names still needs to be improved. In the future, we will use machine learning to establish name entity model for Ming Dynasty and also provide social network related measures to make the system more perfect so as to raise the benefits of assisting humanities scholars to interpret characters and characters’ relationship.
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Development and Application of Ancient Books Digital Humanities Research Platform with Characters' Relationship Map - A Case Study of the Characters in the Ming Dynasty Ancient Books
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Chang, Chung ; 張鐘 |
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Veröffentlichung: | 2018 |
Medientyp: | Hochschulschrift |
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