Fri. 26^th Jan. 2024
Rescheduled on:
Fri. 09^th Feb. 2024
09:15-10:45 Hrs (CET Germany)
01:45-03:15 pm (IST India)
5:15-6:45 pm (JST Japan)

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Meeting ID: 826 6024 3111
Passcode: pothi

Poster

Manuscriptology and Digital Humanities
Co-organized with Otani University Collection Buddhist Manuscript Research Project, Shin Buddhist Comprehensive Research Institute, Otani University, Kyoto

▍ Dating the Vedic Corpus

Dr. Oliver Hellwig (University of Zurich)

In this talk I will discuss what quantitative methods can reveal about the chronology of the Vedic corpus. Starting with a discussion of non-chronological influence factors and methods for detecting them, the presentation moves forward to a Bayesian approach that derives a chronological structure from the development of linguistic features. In addition, I will sketch how recent advances in Natural Language Processing can be applied to this question.

Dr. Oliver Hellwig is a PostDoc researcher at the Department of Comparative Linguistics, University of Zurich.