從《數位人文研究》展望資料開放、工具協同與議題網絡

Toward Linking Open Data, Synchronizing Digital Tools, and Mapping Relevant Topics: A Survey of the Series on Digital Humanities

劉昭麟(Chao-Lin Liu)

《數位典藏與數位人文》 1期 (2018/04) Pp. 11-50

https://doi.org/10.6853/DADH.201804_1.0002

摘要

在這一篇分析報告中，我們回顧許多《數位人文研究》中的既有成果。前人多年的努力奉獻，已經為我國數位人文的發展奠定優質的基礎。在回顧過去與展望未來的同時，我們想像在一個資料開放的大數據時代中，語文分析技術將可透過探索性的查詢來支持人文學者建構研究議題網絡。設想一個全世界資料庫可以互通檢索，而且資料內容開放給研究者使用與分析的情境；開放的大數據搭配優質的資訊檢索與連結技術，讓研究者較過往更容易達到旁徵博引的境界。再透過智慧型的資料分析服務，研究者可以在廣博的語料基礎之上，以較有效率的方式從各種不同面向探索可能的研究脈絡，進而可能形成關聯議題的網絡。基於完全開放的資料庫語料，研究同好與公眾讀者可以查閱研究者所藉以建構論述的同一語料，藉此可以討論對於同一語料的不同觀察，增進辯證不同人文研究論述的便利。

關鍵字

人文研究 ； 語文分析 ； 軟體工具 ； 開放資料 ； 議題網絡

並列摘要

The field and influences of Digital Humanities are expanding significantly in recent years. This paper discusses and reviews many of the influential ideas and representative achievements that were reported in the Series on Digital Humanities and the International Conference on Digital Archives and Digital Humanities. Existing accomplishments have provided not only substantial proofs for the far-reaching promises of Digital Humanities but also further guidance for advancing the field in coming years. The increasing availability of research material and the strengthening power of computing facilities are leading us to a new era of humanistic research. In an open data environment, researchers may access information that are potentially relevant to their research targets from diverse sources with the help of information retrieval and extraction techniques. Digital tools for relating and disambiguating relevant information from abundant raw material can assist researchers to sift through documents that offer insights of varying relevancy. With the solid foundations of the availability of research data and the strength of computing supports, researchers can dig deeply into a research topic. In addition, digital tools may provide explorative search, offering opportunities of discovering new issues that are contextually related to the original research topic. With an appropriate expert-in-the- loop search mechanism, experts may uncover new research topics and may even link relationships between topics that were not previously known, perhaps forming a topic network among research topics. A truly open data environment also allows us to make results of humanistic research verifiable. Readers of a published paper may find and study both the cited papers and the researched material via information curators or data providers so that readers may acquire a deeper understanding of the viewpoints and thoughts of the paper authors. This would be hard to achieve if any part of the data is privately secured.

並列關鍵字

humanistic research ； computational linguistics ； digital tools ； open data ； topic networks

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