Gilgamesh as Data

bit.ly/gilgamesh-bu

Goals

  • Introduce the digital humanities
  • Share tools to explore, generate questions and start analysis of humanities data
  • Demonstrate how computational humanities research methods can reveal new knowledge

Exploratory Data Analysis

Analysis

Gather texts and metadata

Data preparation (cleaning, modeling...)

Exploration

 

reading

searching
counting
embedding

I am
the text for evidence

Google Pinpoint

voyant-tools.org

1) Go to this link

2) Copy and paste these links

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/apjanco/files/refs/heads/master/ferry.txt
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/apjanco/files/refs/heads/master/retold.txt

 Machine Learning for Ancient Languages: A Survey

Machine Learning + Ancient Languages