on Oct 11, 2016
MARKUS is the reason I am pursuing my current research project. Inspired by Franco Moretti’s work, I had
an idea about mapping the Chinese novel, but it seemed that it would be incredibly difficult to do it on
a large scale using traditional methods. Then I learned about MARKUS, and its ability to identify place
names in a digitized Chinese text. I tried it on my material, and found that with some manual
correction, MARKUS gives me a good overview of all the places mentioned in a particular novel...
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