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A Visual Tool For Interdisciplinary Investigations, James J. O'Keefe
A Visual Tool For Interdisciplinary Investigations, James J. O'Keefe
Lesley University Community of Scholars Day
Interdisciplinary investigations using the Gapminder dynamic interactive software will be the focus of this seminar.
Text Mining In Chinese Ancient Attires, Lu Wang
Text Mining In Chinese Ancient Attires, Lu Wang
Western Research Forum
Starting from the Shang Dynasty (1600-1046 BCE) when writing system appeared in China, clothing was recorded as symbols to denote social statuses. The hierarchical signification of clothing remained in the following dynasties until the end of imperial China in 1911. The imperial period produced twenty-five official dynastic histories with rich corpuses on the subject of attire, documenting regulations and prohibitions of detailed dress code, a subject being scarcely studied and treated with assumptions today. This research will use text mining tools to identify descriptive words of clothing that reflect Chinese hierarchal ideology from the twenty-five histories. The method is to …