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46192 - Computer Science for Classical Disciplines (1) (Second Level Course)

Academic Year 2008/2009

  • Docente: Tommaso Del Vecchio
  • Credits: 5
  • SSD: INF/01
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LS) in Philology, Literature and Classical Tradition (cod. 0461)

Learning outcomes

Students shall analyse deeply the differences between text and document, as they usually made studying Computer Science for the Humanities. They will be able to understand the real nature of the text, and its structure. This analysis is important to decide which kind of computer treatment is adequate to the different kind of texts.
At the end of this course, the students will be able to operate a destructuration of the text, in order to apply the right computer analysis.

Course contents

  1. The nature of the text. Differences between text and document. The digital representation of the text. Modes and methods of encoding.
  2. Searching encoded texts. Differences between traditional and digital instruments:
  • Indexes, lexica and concordances, printed and on line
  • Indexes of frequences, statistics
  • Lemmatization
  • Some tools for searching texts, on line and off line
  • The structure of the texts transmitted from classic tradition
    • Latin and Greek: it's just a question of fonts?
    • Problems on handling the diacritical signs in the coding of texts
  • Exemples for structuring and searching codified texts

    • Readings/Bibliography

    • Lenci, Alessandro, Simonetta Montemagni e Vito Pirelli (2005), Testo e computer, Roma: Carocci
    • Pierazzo, Elena (2005), La codifica dei testi, Roma: Carocci
    • Lana, Maurizio (2004), Il testo nel computer. Dal web all'analisi dei testi, Torino: Bollati Boringhieri
    • Orlandi, Tito (1986), Problemi di codifica e trattamento informatico in campo filologico, in Giuseppe Savoca (ed.), Lessicografia, filologia e critica: Atti del Convegno internazionale di studi, Catania-Siracusa, 26-28 aprile 1985, Firenze: L.S. Olschki, 69-82 ( http://rmcisadu.let.uniroma1.it/~orlandi/pubbli/info054.html)
    • Orlandi, Tito (1990), Informatica Umanistica (Studi Superiori NIS, n.78), Roma: La Nuova Italia Scientifica
    • Ciotti, Fabio, Gino Roncaglia (2000), Il mondo digitale, Roma-Bari: Laterza
    • Danese, Roberto M. (a cura di) (2003), Tra 'Volumen' e byte, Rimini: Guaraldi
    • Gigliozzi, Giuseppe (2003), Introduzione all'uso del computer per gli studi letterari, (a cura di F. Ciotti), Milano: Bruno Mondadori
    • Lana, Maurizio (1994), L'uso del computer nell'analisi dei testi, Milano: Franco Angeli
    • Numerico, Teresa - Arturo Vespignani (a cura di) (2003), Informatica per le scienze umanistiche, Bologna: Il Mulino
    • Tomasi, Francesca, Principi di digitalizzazione di testo e immagini, in: http://www.griseldaonline.it/informatica/manuale_parte5.htm
    • Tomasi, Francesca, L'analisi del testo, in: http://www.griseldaonline.it/informatica/manuale_parte9.htm

    Teaching methods

    The class will be held in computer Labo, with teacher pc on screen, and students' pc's on line (Internet & Intranet). All the arguments are supported with web infos, and demos of the applications.

    Assessment methods

    The final examination will consist on an oral conversation and a practical test: the student should be able to analyze a literary text, to understand its deep structure in order to submit it to an adequate computer management.

    Teaching tools

    Projector, Power Point like slides, pdf docs, printed books (pictures)

    Office hours

    See the website of Tommaso Del Vecchio