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LEVYNA

10 Nov

Estimated Costs and Benefits of Extreme Rituals in Mauritius

Why do people willingly engage in painful or exhausting rituals with no obvious material reward?

DISSINET

4 Oct

DISSINET publishes a transcription of the inquisition register of John Galand and William of Saint-Seine, 1283–1302

As part of DISSINET's corpus work, we have procured a transcription of the hitherto unpublished register of John Galand and William of Saint-Seine, 1283–1302, that we have made available in the Zenodo repository.

DISSINET

3 Oct

Extracting data from historical texts using Large Language Models

Large Language Models (LLMs) hold significant promise for extracting information from historical texts. If used appropriately, they can speed up the research process, compensating for resource limitations and helping researchers achieve ambitious objectives in quantitative cultural history.