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# COMHUM 2018
Workshop on Computational Methods in the Humanities 2018

### Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Methods in the Humanities 2018

### Lausanne, Switzerland, June 4–5, 2018.

Edited by

### Michael Piotrowski *

* University of Lausanne, Department of Language and Information Sciences, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland

Complete proceedings in one ZIP file

## Table of Contents

- Preface

### Invited Talks (Abstracts)

- The confluence in digital humanities: the computer scientist, the digital humanist, and the final user 5-6
  Maristella Agosti
- Image processing for art investigation 7
  Bruno Cornelis
- Decoding what the sender did not want to transmit. Information technology and historical data; or something 9-10
  Manfred Thaller

### Contributed Papers

- Identification and quantification of colours in children's drawings 11-21
  Christelle Cocco, Raphaël Ceré, Aris Xanthos, Pierre-Yves Brandt
- Clustering writing components from medieval manuscripts 23-32
  Mats Dahllöf
- Modelling vagueness – A criteria-based system for the qualitative assessment of reading proposals for the deciphering of Classic Mayan hieroglyphs 33-44
  Franziska Diehr, Sven Gronemeyer, Elisabeth Wagner, Christian Prager, Katja Diederichs, Uwe Sikora, Maximilian Brodhun, Nikolai Grube
- Taking into account semantic similarities in correspondence analysis 45-51
  Mattia Egloff, François Bavaud
- Towards a quantitative research framework for historical disciplines 53-58
  Barbara McGillivray, Jon Wilson, Tobias Blanke
- Linking historical sources to established knowledge bases in order to inform entity linkers in cultural heritage 59-66
  Gary Munnelly, Annalina Caputo, Séamus Lawless
- Tracing changes in thematic structure of holiday picture postcards from 1950s to 2010s 67-75
  Kyoko Sugisaki, Nicolas Wiedmer, Marcel Naef, Heiko Hausendorf
- Supporting hermeneutic interpretation of historical documents by computational methods 77-82
  Cristina Vertan

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