There are essentially three goals of the project:Congratulations on the funding from the National Endowment of the Humanities.1. To develop AI techniques and tools that abstract citations from an enormous and complicated corpus of rabbinic texts that span from antiquity to the modern day. These techniques should also be useful to scholars who similarly want to mine very different corpora to build their own citation networks.
2. To use these extracted citations to construct a network, and then to develop a viewing tool that allows users to navigate (and filter!) this network.
3. To begin the scholarly analysis of this network for new scholarly insights. We are especially interested in using it to trace how knowledge moves through space and time.
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