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The description of places in Biondo’s Italia Illustrata: outlining a quantitative analysis of their granularity and spatial relationships
Umeå University, Faculty of Science and Technology, Department of Computing Science.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-5629-0981
2022 (English)In: Walking through history: an interdisciplinary approach to Flavio Biondo’s spaces in the "Italia Illustrata" / [ed] Tanja Michalsky; Martin Thiering, Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History , 2022, Vol. 1Chapter in book (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

This chapter outlines a quantitative method for analyzing location descriptions. Generally, such a quantitative analysis allows for identifying predominant features of these descriptions and, given a sufficiently large corpus, may allow for statistical inferences. Here, an English translation of Biondo’s chapter on the region Latium is used as a small case study illustrating the method. The analyzed features include the frequency (distribution) of the level of granularity of those entities referred to in the descriptions, which spatial hierarchical structures emerge from referring to different entities on potentially different levels of granularity and the frequency of these structures, and which spatial relationships between entities dominate in the descriptions. The chapter presents results of this analysis and discusses them in detail, also pointing out limitations of the method. However, mainly the chapter is to be read as an introduction to this particular analysis approach, which may be used to complement other analyses and may offer insights not otherwise gained.

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Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History , 2022. Vol. 1
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Hertziana Studies in Art History ; 2022:1
Keywords [en]
place descriptions, hierarchical structures, spatial relations, spatial cognition
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Computer Sciences Natural Language Processing
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Computer Science; History Of Art; Linguistics
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URN: urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-215333DOI: 10.48431/hsah.0108ISBN: 978-3-949381-00-3 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:umu-215333DiVA, id: diva2:1805794
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Walking through history. An Interdisciplinary Approach to Flavio Biondo’s Spaces in the "Italia Illustrata"
Available from: 2023-10-18 Created: 2023-10-18 Last updated: 2025-02-01Bibliographically approved

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