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Text Analysis and Visualisation of The Observatory Review from Hong Kong Early Tabloid Newspaper (香港早期小報《天文臺》的文本分析與可視化 )
No full textText Analysis and Visualisation of The Observatory Review from Hong Kong Early Tabloid Newspaper
The "Hong Kong Early Tabloid Newspapers"《香港早期小報》, launched in 2022, is a collection of early tabloid newspapers digitized for public access. The collection covers over 80 titles in over 5000 issues of tabloid newspapers published in Hong Kong from 1914 to 1993. In contrast to the major newspapers which focus on reporting "serious" public affairs, tabloid newspapers pay attention to minor topics of interests and entertainments. It serves as an alternative platform for a variety of issues like political secrets, dramas, pornography, and leisure etc. Apart from the above, thinner in size and cheaper in price made tabloid newspapers more accessible and attractive for the public. Tabloid newspapers provides an important insight to the multifaceted society and cultural circulation at the time.
Project goal
We happen to have, as a by-product of the Tabloid Newspaper digitization process, the newspapers' text extracted with Optical Character Recognition (OCR) service. Hence, we started this spin-off pilot project, as an experiment, aiming to salvage valuable information from the data that's sitting around. We also tried to explore in elementary analysis and visualization to improve accessibility for the public. Hopefully, through this project, we might be able to apply similar model to other collections to extract meaningful, important history pieces for future display and study
Image Dataset Analysis of "Amusement News" from Hong Kong Early Tabloid Newspaper through Computer Vision and Machine Learning algorithms 基於電腦視覺和機器學習算法的香港早期小報《娛樂之音》圖像數據集分析
No full textIn this project, we aimed to develop a pipeline to automatically recognize, extract, categorize, and display illustrations from the selected tabloid newspaper. We tried to explore tools from academic Computer Vision repository, business OCR service, and opensource library and framework. Hopefully, in the future, we might be able to apply the streamlined process to another newspaper or other digitized collections.
Amusement News《娛樂之音》is selected for its theme in entertainment, especially movie and Cantonese Opera oriented content, and its richness in printed illustrations.
Cantonese Opera, often known as daai hei(great theatre), represents one of the traditional xiqu genres derived from Guangdong. It is a recognized traditional culture which has been inscribed on The National List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of China and UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Cantonese Opera also represents the long-standing popular entertainment enjoyed by the locals in Hong Kong. During festivals and temple fairs, like Luna New Year and Birthday of Tin Hau or Guanyin, people go and watch Cantonese Opera performed at ad-hoc theatre in dai daai dei (flea market).
Since the late 1940s where Shanghai film companies moved to Hong Kong, movie and cinema started to thrive. With the inflow of capital and talent, Hong Kong soon turned into a movie-making hub and started gaining international recognition gradually. As more and more cinemas with affordable pricing established, movie watching became one of the most popular entertainment among the masses.
The Cantonese Opera industry caught on to the flourishing movie-watching culture and transformed Cantonese Opera performance into films. During the 1950s, Cantonese Opera was one of the most prolific generas in cinemas where over 500 Cantonese opera movies were produced. Later, Cantonese opera also turned into videotapes, fanzines, and CDs.
Among the many tabloid newspapers, the Amusement News reported extensively about cinemas, theatres, and Cantonese Opera, covering topics about the industry, the scripts, and the stars. On each issue, there were photos captured from live performance, movie, and behind the scenes. The Amusement News also involved in influencing the popularity of movie and Cantonese Opera. For years, they organized the "Three Champions of the Opera World" contest for audience to vote for the King of Wudan (male lead), the Queen of Huadan (female lead), and the King of Chousheng (comic male) in Cantonese Opera of the year.
Our Amusement News data set covered issues from 1952 to 1959 which captured the development of movie and Cantonese opera at the time
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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