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   Birgit Kellner (birgitkellner@zirk.us)'s status on Thursday, 30-Mar-2023 15:06:49 JST Birgit Kellner

   "Advanced computational methods for studying Buddhist texts", hybrid symposium in Vienna, 27-28 April 2023 (co-hosted by Univ. Vienna and OEAW, with support of ERC TibSchol at OEAW). Organized by Rachael Griffiths, Patrick McAllister and Markus Viehbeck.

   https://www.oeaw.ac.at/ikga/veranstaltungen/event-detail/advanced-computational-methods-for-studying-buddhist-texts

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     Birgit Kellner (birgitkellner@zirk.us)'s status on Thursday, 30-Mar-2023 22:26:11 JST Birgit Kellner

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     @jayarava I think that a number of tools for language and textual analysis are available (or being developed) that allow us to address questions we wouldn't have been able to address otherwise. People like Oliver Hellwig or Nathan Hill wo have longer experience developing and working with computational methods also have published papers with new insights. But it depends on what kind of knowledge precisely you expect them to produce (and what, frankly, you believe "we" already know).

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     Jayarava (jayarava@nerdculture.de)'s status on Thursday, 30-Mar-2023 22:26:13 JST Jayarava

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     @BirgitKellner I keep seeing papers advocating the use computers in the study of texts (Buddhist or otherwise). And promises that visualising data will be some kind of revolution.

     What I'm not seeing is actual studies that use these methods to tell us something we didn't know.