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Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can [...]

A Greek Grammar for Colleges I found this site very useful (I have to check Smyth’s grammar for reference purposes and this site is better than Smyth@Perseus). It’s the same XML-text, I suppose, but presented differently. Update 16/09/2011: The link is now password-protected. A PDF-Version of the actual book can be found here. Blogged with [...]

Betacode description: http://www.tlg.uci.edu/BetaCode.html     Online tools: 1. Sean Redmond’s Greek Font to Unicode converter: http://www.jiffycomp.com/smr/unicode/ CGI based conversion tool, supports cut&paste. 2. Cental (Centre du traitement automatique du langage) Beta Code to Unicode Converter: http://130.104.253.20/beta2uni/ Lets you upload and convert whole files from the TLG CD ROM to Unicode. 3. Michael Neuhold’s greekconverter: http://members.aon.at/neuhold/antike/grkconv.html [...]

HyperPo :: Digital Text Reading Environment This is a site that earned my “wow”: interactive text analysis on the server, great visualization, fantastic for teaching and research. Impressed! Blogged with the Flock Browser Tags: textanalysis, hypertext

In my present job I am heavily involved with language description: reading through loads of texts, identifying interesting linguistic features, storing them in a custom-build database. That’s good for some phenomena that you can not easily identify with other means; sometimes you just have to use the computer and scan a large amount of texts [...]

A one-hour lecture about “Digital Humanities”, part of the CHUCOL course at the

A one-hour lecture about “Digital Humanities”, part of the CHUCOL course at the

Sometimes it is difficult to explain the hype about web 2.0 etc. to students. I have seen this in techorati’s most popular videos: This is a quite brilliant introduction to “Web 2.0″, I am not sure I agree with the last sentence (“change ourselves”) but this is a subject of a different post.