Principal Investigator: Kyoko Amano (Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University)
The origins of many ancient texts remain a mystery. This project is an attempt to uncover the origins of the ancient Indian literature, the Vedas, through a collaborative approach using linguistics, philology, digital humanities and visual analytics.
This project is the successor to “Chronological and Geographical Features of Ancient Indian Literature Explored by Data-Driven Science” (2020-2021), which was supported by the Supporting Program for Interaction-based Initiative Team Studies (SPIRITS) of Kyoto University as an Interdisciplinary type project, in the priority area of humanities and social sciences.
This website continues to publish the past information (announcements and events) of the SPIRITS project.
This project is an international collaborative research project with Oliver Hellwig, University of Dusseldorf, Germany.
News
- 2024/12/16
On November 16, 2024, So Miyagawa, Yuki Kyogoku, Yuzuki Tsukagoshi, and Kyoko Amano presented on the title “Exploring Similarity Measures and Intertextuality in Vedic Sanskrit Literature” at the 4th International Conference on Natural Language Processing for Digital Humanities held in Miami. The paper is published in the Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Natural Language Processing for Digital Humanities, 123-131. The paper is here: https://aclanthology.org/2024.nlp4dh-1.12.pdf
- 2024/12/16
On August 5, 2024, So Miyagawa, Yuzuki Tsukagoshi, Yuki Kyogoku, and Kyoko Amano presented on the title “Computational Analysis of Intertextuality in Vedic Texts: A Progress Report” at the DH2024 Workshop – Computational Literary Studies: How To Do Research Responsibly, SIG – Digital Literary Stylistics, held in Washington, D.C. The program is here: https://dls.hypotheses.org/1764
- 2024/12/16
On July 20, 2024, Hiroaki Natsukawa and Kyoko Amano presented on the title “Visualizing the Historic Layers of Language in Ancient Indian Texts” at the 52nd Visualization Symposium Japan 2024 held in Okinawa Industry Support Center. About the symposium click here: https://www.vsj.jp/symp2024/
- 2024/12/16
Sebastian Nehrdich, Oliver Hellwig and Kurt Keutzer published “One Model is All You Need: ByT5-Sanskrit, a Unified Model for Sanskrit NLP Tasks” in Arxiv preprint (publication will follow in EMNLP 2024). Click here: https://www.academia.edu/125244330/One_Model_is_All_You_Need_ByT5_Sanskrit_a_Unified_Model_for_Sanskrit_NLP_Tasks?nav_from=1f0b9d15-1c69-499b-88c0-91a62de8506c
- 2024/12/16
Oliver Hellwig and Sven Sellmer published “The Placement of Objects in Vedic Sanskrit” in Medhota Sravah: Felicitation Volume in Honour of Mislav Jezic on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday, 2023. Click here: https://www.academia.edu/112856244/The_Placement_of_Objects_in_Vedic_Sanskrit