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This volume is addressed to a wide range of scholars interested in the use of digital tools and methods in the humanities. Readers can find examples of new instruments and workflows which attest successful applications of the digital humanities techniques to some (traditional) problems in the scholarship of several disciplines. In addition, the focus on Romance language applications, while capturing specific language processing and analysis challenges, turns this volume into a valuable reference work.

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Anca Dinu is Assistant Professor at University of Bucharest, Faculty Foreign Languages and Literatures and director of The Digital Humanities Research Centre, University of Bucharest. Her main research interests are Digital Humanities, Natural Language Processing, formal and distributional semantics, corpus linguistics, experimental linguistics, etc. Madalina Chitez is a Senior Researcher in Applied Corpus Linguistics at the West University of Timisoara, Romania. She is the founder and coordinator of the Digital Humanities research centre, CODHUS (Centre for Corpus Related Digital Approaches to Humanities), which has a strong language-technology applicative character. Her areas of interest and expertise are: applied corpus linguistics, digital humanities, academic writing, contrastive linguistics and computer-assisted language learning. Liviu Dinu is Professor at University of Bucharest, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Computer Science Department, and director of Human Language Technologies Research Center (nlp.unibuc.ro). His main research interests are Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing, with a particular focus on languages similarity, computational approaches of historical linguistics, authorship identification and computational stylometry, topic analysis and text categorization. Mihnea Dobre is teaching and doing research in the history of philosophy and science at the University of Bucharest. His principal interests are the relations between philosophy, religion and science in the early modern period and how new forms of scholarship, such as digital humanities, can inform research practice on these topics.

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