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Abstract
This article analyzes the citation network of the Babylonian Talmud, building on an earlier article that we published (Satlow and Sperling 2022). The article has three goals. Our first goal is to show how an ontological-based information extraction system combined with pattern matching can successfully extract structured data from a very complicated, unstructured text. Our second goal is to extend our previous analysis and demonstrate how citation data might lead to wider conclusions about redactional patterns. In addition to highlighting the citation tendencies of different tractates (which could indicate different redactors for those tractates), we hypothesize that there existed a source document originating in the circle of Rav Yehudah bar Yehezkel, used by at least some redactors, and that the character of Rabbi Zeira deserves further attention as an important figure connecting different nodes on the network. Finally, we seek to outline an analytical workflow that could be helpful to other historical projects in the digital humanities.
本文分析了《巴比伦塔木德经》的引文网络，以我们之前发表的一篇文章（Satlow and Sperling 2022）为基础。本文有三个目标。第一个目标是展示基于本体的信息提取系统如何结合模式匹配，成功地从非常复杂的非结构化文本中提取结构化数据。我们的第二个目标是扩展我们之前的分析，并展示引文数据如何能为编辑模式带来更广泛的结论。除了强调不同篇章的引用倾向（这可能表明这些篇章有不同的节录者）之外，我们还假设存在一个源文件，该源文件源自 Rav Yehudah bar Yehezkel 的圈子，至少被一些节录者使用，而拉比-泽拉（Rabbi Zeira）作为连接网络上不同节点的重要人物值得进一步关注。最后，我们试图勾勒出一种分析工作流程，它可能对数字人文领域的其他历史项目有所帮助。
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DSH or Digital Scholarship in the Humanities is an international, peer reviewed journal which publishes original contributions on all aspects of digital scholarship in the Humanities including, but not limited to, the field of what is currently called the Digital Humanities. Long and short papers report on theoretical, methodological, experimental, and applied research and include results of research projects, descriptions and evaluations of tools, techniques, and methodologies, and reports on work in progress. DSH also publishes reviews of books and resources. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities was previously known as Literary and Linguistic Computing.
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