In terms of defining decolonization or its inverse colonization, I have often wondered if we are seeing modern colonization, e.g. of a military style Russia in Syria or Ukraine, and/or US in Iraq, of an economic style China in Vanuatu, and some African contexts. etc. that is, must colonization only apply to the 19th century? Following that then to what degree do the corpora and ML/AI tools we create facilitate these un-equal relationships.
Kind regards -Hugh
On Sun, Apr 2, 2023 at 8:13 AM Albretch Mueller via Corpora < corpora@list.elra.info> wrote:
On 3/26/23, Albretch Mueller lbrtchx@gmail.com wrote:
Thank you for citing your sources (LoC, goodreads, wikipedia, ...). I could imagine that as part of your work you had to get a more general list of author-work pairs from which you selected the ones you were interested in for you research. Where is that more general list? ;-) The only link I found when I went: site:github.com marcostranisci list, was about some python code.
Relating to your "Discovery tools for Digital Humanities", on §5, what do you mean when you say that: "it is possible to track a subject through time?" that is the only requirement which was not metadata. Do you mean the topics that the author engaged? the used terminology/words? the subject matter (say, Chemistry)?
I am working myself right now on a similar project, but instead of shedding some light on non-Western authors, I am interested in author-work pairs with "universal appeal" regardless of the genre, meaning that their authored texts have been:
- translated to other languages (even if it is just one book by the
author),
- published in another country (even if in the same language),
- cited from authors belonging to other cultures/who speak other
languages, or
- republished more than a generation later.
I know those are not exactly totally safe criteria since some local report about "how human pee affected the fauna of the Ohio river" may not be considered to be of universal appeal, but a report about the pollution of the Hudson River by General Electric with all kinds of PCBs definitely would and that report about the Ohio River may relate to the Hudson River one ... so that kind of "universal appeal" corpus should honestly and functionally keep its edges, extensions.
You also considered the Spanish-American war "the first decolonization process". As someone who was born and raised in Cuba as part of a family of high profile political dissidents (so even though I am not that much into "historical" topics, basically narratives to keep the proles, they were talked about in my home since I was little), let me just tell you that even though I am not exactly a "patriot", ideologically/politically minded person, the idea sounded so weird to me that I couldn't be cynically quiet about it.
I have no way of knowing if you are being sarcastic in a cosmic way and/or your statement is an "honoring favor" to your donors. Let me tell you that, both, people for and against the U.S. trained dictator Fulgencio Batista and also the people who were for and against those that toppled him have wondered about and questioned the legal grounds for the U.S. occupation of Cuban territory. USG, as they talk, says that "they 'negotiated' that land based on the Platt Amendment" (they actually say that!) and they use that "alternate fact" to justify the use of torture in that place (jurisdictionally, not part of the U.S. territory), let me just point out that Cuba was basically a occupied country by the U.S. military, a country which as part of the Monroe Doctrine has always received some "special attention" from USG’s "freedom loving".
Why is USG still in gitmo? Once again, another piece of gringo twisted thinking. They have actually stated that the reason why they have remained there is "because" "they had paid the Cuban government (after they toppled Batista) the first month of rent" and "they had accepted it" ... So, they do admit legally they don't own the place which they use to justify "torture"; oh, no, wait!: "enhanced interrogation techniques". They are basically renting (not even squatting) it under their own "terms"! ... Is this what you call "decolonization"?
lbrtchx
On 3/26/23, Albretch Mueller lbrtchx@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Marco:
thank you for sharing your great work:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2212.13104.pdf
I have kept pestering "big wigs" trying to make them understand the need and profit (if not monetary, definitely as common good) of exactly what you describe in your paper.
// __ where could you find a master list of book-author pairs?
https://support.google.com/websearch/thread/207859826?hl=en ~ lbrtchx
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