History

How well do automated linking methods perform in historical data? Evidence from new U.S. ground truth
Martha Bailey, Connor Cole, Morgan Henderson, and Catherine Massey

Literature

On close and distant reading in Digital Humanities: A survey and future challenges
Stefan Jänicke, Greta Franzini, Muhammad F. Cheema, and Gerik Scheuermann

Intersecting Word Vectors to Take Figurative Language to New Heights
Andrea Gagliano, Emily Paul, Kyle Booten, and Marti A. Hearst

Folklore

Computational Analysis of the Body in European Fairy Tales
Scott Weingart Jeana Jorgensen

Linguistics

Automatic Identification of Suicide Notes from Linguistic and Sentiment Features
Annika Marie Schoene and Nina Dethlefs

Texts


Developing an Image-Based Classifier for Detecting Poetic Content in Historic Newspaper Collections
Elizabeth Lorang, Leen-Kiat Soh, Maanas Varma Datla, and Spencer Kulwicki

A Simple and Fast Word Spotting Method
Alon Kovalchuk, Lior Wolf, and Nachum Dershowitz

Relating Articles Textually and Visually
Nachum Dershowitz, Daniel Labenski, Adi Silberpfennig, Lior Wolf, and Yaron Tsur

Manuscripts

A Method for Segmentation, Matching and Alignment of the Dead Sea Scrolls
Gil Levi, Pinhas Nisnevitch, Adiel Ben-Shalom, Nachum Dershowitz, and Lior Wolf

OCR-Free Transcript Alignment
Tal Hassner, Lior Wolf, and Nachum Dershowitz

Paleography


A Digital Palaeographic Approach towards Writer Identification in the Dead Sea Scrolls
Maruf A Dhali, Sheng He, Mladen Popović, Eibert Tigchelaar, and Lambert Schomaker

Identifying join candidates in the Cairo Genizah
Lior Wolf, Rotem Littman, Naama Mayer, Tanya German, Nachum Dershowitz, Roni Shweka, and Yaacov Choueka

Archeology


Algorithmic handwriting analysis of Judah's military correspondence sheds light on composition of Biblical texts
Shira Faigenbaum-Golovin, Arie Shaus, Barak Sober, David Levin, Nadav Na'aman, Benjamin Sass, Eli Turkel, Eli Piasetzky, and Israel Finkelstein

A new method for 3D geometric morphometric shape analysis: The case study of handaxe knapping skill
Gadi Herzlinger Naama Goren-Inbara, and Leore Grosman
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Music

A Universal Music Translation Network
Noam Mor, Lior Wolf, Adam Polyak, and Yaniv Taigman