[INDOLOGY] Philology and Network Science

[Dominik Wujastyk]

The statistical techniques of text analysis described as being used by
Ribeiro were developed in the 1960s and 1970s.  I used such ideas in an
article I published in 1978.  It's very old-hat.  The statistical methods
are worthwhile and will - when applied - help us indologists too, with
cases like Kalidasa and Sankara.  The work of Oliver Hellwig on the
chronology of Sanskrit alchemical literature is a wonderful case study of
this kind of thing, but much more sophisticated than Ribeiro's work.
Ribeiro appears not to have the slightest awareness of the field of Digital
Humanities, at least as he is represented in this article.

--
Professor Dominik Wujastyk <http://ualberta.academia.edu/DominikWujastyk>
,

Singhmar Chair in Classical Indian Society and Polity
,

Department of History and Classics <http://historyandclassics.ualberta.ca/>
,
University of Alberta, Canada
.

South Asia at the U of A:

sas.ualberta.ca
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On Sun, 3 Jun 2018 at 08:45, Sudalaimuthu Palaniappan via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> I thought the attached excerpt from an article published in the Penn
> Engineer magazine issue of Spring 2018 may be of interest to the members.
>
> Regards,
> Palaniappan
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