Methods

Hermeneutic Research

• Investigation of sources quoted by the author.
•  Manual comparison of documents in different languages for identifying:
  • missing parts
  • mistakes in the arabic transcription
• Classification and description of encountered Named Entities.
• Investigation of the political and biographical context of the author.
• Language dependent collection of vagueness indicators.

Computer modelling and processing

• Automatic preprocessing and linguistic annotation of texts.
• Semi-automatic annotation of linguistic vagueness markers.
• Machine learning for detection of possible factual unreliable quotation.
• Fuzzy ontological modeling.
• Fuzzy reasoner.
• Visualisation (including parametrization of the results) .

Innovation

• First complete comparison of the Latin manuscripts and the different translations of Cantemir‘s major works about the Ottoman Empire and Moldavia
• First deep investigation about the reliability of his quotations
• First DH-project including multi-layered annotation and interpretation of vague assertions
• The ontological backbone will be reusable as independent module for historical projects.