Mike Kestemont
Biographic Data
| ID | 4079683 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mike Kestemont |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mike |
| FAMILY NAME | Kestemont |
| SIGNATURE | KESTEMONT M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Antwerp |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3590-693X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Saved in translation? Diversity shared in French and Dutch medieval literature
Empirical studies often have to work with incomplete samples, with scholars rarely accounting for under-registration: in cultural heritage e.g. the age-long loss of artefacts can yield an under-estimation of the original richness of assemblages. Recently, it has been argued that unseen species models from ecology can estimate the unobserved diversity in cultural collections. We report an extension on shared diversity, i.e. the number of types tha…
Zwerfverzen
In literary studies, intertextual theory stresses that works are co-dependent. Because the concept of intertextuality is generally defined only vaguely, it covers a variety of phenomena, ranging from exact quotations over subtle allusions to higher-level genre constraints. Philologists have been studying textual correspondences between medieval works long before these connections were called intertexts. Most famously, K.H. Heeroma uncovered many …
Advances in Digital Music Iconography
In this paper, we present MINERVA, the first benchmark dataset for the detection of musical instruments in non-photorealistic, unrestricted image collections from the realm of the visual arts. This effort is situated against the scholarly background of music iconography, an interdisciplinary field at the intersection of musicology and art history. We benchmark a number of state-of-the-art systems for image classification and object detection. Our…
Classifying evolutionary forces in language change using neural networks
Zbornik konference Jezikovne tehnologije in digitalna humanistika
With this year's conference we are celebrating the 20th anniversary since the first conference »Language technologies« which took place in 1998 in Cankarjev dom, Ljubljana and was organized by Tomaž Erjavec, Vojko Gorjanc, Jerneja Žganec Gros and Anica Rant. The topics of the first conference were the development and application of language technologies for Slovene and directions for the future. 26 papers were presented, dealing with speech techn…
Stylometric Authorship Attribution for the Middle Dutch Mystical Tradition from Groenendaal
The well-known medieval Groenendaal monastery in Brabant has produced some of the finest examples of medieval Dutch literature, including Jan van Ruusbroec's œuvre, who together with Anne Frank, remains the most frequently translated Dutch author of all time. Authorship attribution nevertheless remains a serious scholarly concern when it comes to the corpus of mystical texts from Groenendaal: because of the general proximity of the Groenendaal au…
The Digital Middle Ages
While such hit lists are interesting in their own right, looking at mere frequency does not reveal the complex relationships that might exist among them and with other words with which these entities are typically associated. To study and visualize these, we turn to one final technique, from the sphere of distributional embeddings: word embeddings. Just like topic modeling techniques, word embeddings build upon the distributional hypothesis that …
Artificial Paleography
International audience
The Digital Middle Ages
The Authorship of the Historia Augusta
The case of the Historia Augusta, a collection of imperial biographies from Hadrian to Carus supposedly written by six different authors, provided the impetus for the introduction of computational methods into the Echtheitskritik of ancient authors in 1979. After a flurry of studies in the 1990s, interest waned, particularly because most of those studies seemed to support conclusions incompatible with the scholarly consensus on the question. In t…
Reassessing the Apuleian Corpus
The renaissance of Apuleian studies of the past few decades shows no signs of abating. 1 The summer of 2014 may well be the highest watermark yet recorded in the tide of interest in Apuleius: June and July alone saw the release of two monographs, one each from Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press, and one edited conference volume, from Routledge. 2 The clearest sign that the sophist of Madauros has come into his own is his admis…
Cross-Genre Authorship Verification Using Unmasking
In this paper we will stress-test a recently proposed technique for computational authorship verification, ‘‘unmasking'', which has been well received in the literature. The technique envisages an experimental set-up commonly referred to as ‘‘authorship verification'', a task generally deemed more difficult than so-called ‘‘authorship attribution''. We will apply the technique to authorship verification across genres, an extremely complex text ca…
Een stylometrisch onderzoek naar Jan van Boendales auteurschap voor de Brabantse yeesten
Mike Kestemont, Une étude stylométrique de Jan van Boendale comme l’auteur des Brabantse yeesten Les Brabantse yeesten (“ Les gestes de Brabant”) sont une longue chronique rimée qui se trouve à la base de l’historiographie médiévale du duché de Brabant. Traditionnellement on attribue les cinq premiers livres des Yeesten à Jan van Boendale, un célèbre poète moyen-néerlandais qui travaillait comme greffier de la Ville d’Anvers dans la première moit…
Cross-Genre Authorship Verification Using Unmasking
In this paper we will stress-test a recently proposed technique for computational authorship verification, ‘‘unmasking'', which has been well received in the literature. The technique envisages an experimental set-up commonly referred to as ‘‘authorship verification'', a task generally deemed more difficult than so-called ‘‘authorship attribution''. We will apply the technique to authorship verification across genres, an extremely complex text ca…
Classifying evolutionary forces in language change using neural networks
The Digital Middle Ages
While such hit lists are interesting in their own right, looking at mere frequency does not reveal the complex relationships that might exist among them and with other words with which these entities are typically associated. To study and visualize these, we turn to one final technique, from the sphere of distributional embeddings: word embeddings. Just like topic modeling techniques, word embeddings build upon the distributional hypothesis that …
Artificial Paleography
International audience
The Digital Middle Ages
The Authorship of the Historia Augusta
The case of the Historia Augusta, a collection of imperial biographies from Hadrian to Carus supposedly written by six different authors, provided the impetus for the introduction of computational methods into the Echtheitskritik of ancient authors in 1979. After a flurry of studies in the 1990s, interest waned, particularly because most of those studies seemed to support conclusions incompatible with the scholarly consensus on the question. In t…
Reassessing the Apuleian Corpus
The renaissance of Apuleian studies of the past few decades shows no signs of abating. 1 The summer of 2014 may well be the highest watermark yet recorded in the tide of interest in Apuleius: June and July alone saw the release of two monographs, one each from Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press, and one edited conference volume, from Routledge. 2 The clearest sign that the sophist of Madauros has come into his own is his admis…
Een stylometrisch onderzoek naar Jan van Boendales auteurschap voor de Brabantse yeesten
Mike Kestemont, Une étude stylométrique de Jan van Boendale comme l’auteur des Brabantse yeesten Les Brabantse yeesten (“ Les gestes de Brabant”) sont une longue chronique rimée qui se trouve à la base de l’historiographie médiévale du duché de Brabant. Traditionnellement on attribue les cinq premiers livres des Yeesten à Jan van Boendale, un célèbre poète moyen-néerlandais qui travaillait comme greffier de la Ville d’Anvers dans la première moit…
Cross-Genre Authorship Verification Using Unmasking
In this paper we will stress-test a recently proposed technique for computational authorship verification, ‘‘unmasking'', which has been well received in the literature. The technique envisages an experimental set-up commonly referred to as ‘‘authorship verification'', a task generally deemed more difficult than so-called ‘‘authorship attribution''. We will apply the technique to authorship verification across genres, an extremely complex text ca…
The Authorship of the Historia Augusta
The case of the Historia Augusta, a collection of imperial biographies from Hadrian to Carus supposedly written by six different authors, provided the impetus for the introduction of computational methods into the Echtheitskritik of ancient authors in 1979. After a flurry of studies in the 1990s, interest waned, particularly because most of those studies seemed to support conclusions incompatible with the scholarly consensus on the question. In t…
Reassessing the Apuleian Corpus
The renaissance of Apuleian studies of the past few decades shows no signs of abating. 1 The summer of 2014 may well be the highest watermark yet recorded in the tide of interest in Apuleius: June and July alone saw the release of two monographs, one each from Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press, and one edited conference volume, from Routledge. 2 The clearest sign that the sophist of Madauros has come into his own is his admis…
The Digital Middle Ages
While such hit lists are interesting in their own right, looking at mere frequency does not reveal the complex relationships that might exist among them and with other words with which these entities are typically associated. To study and visualize these, we turn to one final technique, from the sphere of distributional embeddings: word embeddings. Just like topic modeling techniques, word embeddings build upon the distributional hypothesis that …
Artificial Paleography
International audience
The Digital Middle Ages
Zbornik konference Jezikovne tehnologije in digitalna humanistika
With this year's conference we are celebrating the 20th anniversary since the first conference »Language technologies« which took place in 1998 in Cankarjev dom, Ljubljana and was organized by Tomaž Erjavec, Vojko Gorjanc, Jerneja Žganec Gros and Anica Rant. The topics of the first conference were the development and application of language technologies for Slovene and directions for the future. 26 papers were presented, dealing with speech techn…
Stylometric Authorship Attribution for the Middle Dutch Mystical Tradition from Groenendaal
The well-known medieval Groenendaal monastery in Brabant has produced some of the finest examples of medieval Dutch literature, including Jan van Ruusbroec's œuvre, who together with Anne Frank, remains the most frequently translated Dutch author of all time. Authorship attribution nevertheless remains a serious scholarly concern when it comes to the corpus of mystical texts from Groenendaal: because of the general proximity of the Groenendaal au…
Classifying evolutionary forces in language change using neural networks
Advances in Digital Music Iconography
In this paper, we present MINERVA, the first benchmark dataset for the detection of musical instruments in non-photorealistic, unrestricted image collections from the realm of the visual arts. This effort is situated against the scholarly background of music iconography, an interdisciplinary field at the intersection of musicology and art history. We benchmark a number of state-of-the-art systems for image classification and object detection. Our…
Zwerfverzen
In literary studies, intertextual theory stresses that works are co-dependent. Because the concept of intertextuality is generally defined only vaguely, it covers a variety of phenomena, ranging from exact quotations over subtle allusions to higher-level genre constraints. Philologists have been studying textual correspondences between medieval works long before these connections were called intertexts. Most famously, K.H. Heeroma uncovered many …
Saved in translation? Diversity shared in French and Dutch medieval literature
Empirical studies often have to work with incomplete samples, with scholars rarely accounting for under-registration: in cultural heritage e.g. the age-long loss of artefacts can yield an under-estimation of the original richness of assemblages. Recently, it has been argued that unseen species models from ecology can estimate the unobserved diversity in cultural collections. We report an extension on shared diversity, i.e. the number of types tha…
Computer Science (8 works) · Art (6 works) · Authorship Attribution and Profiling (5 works) · Linguistics (5 works) · Artificial Intelligence (4 works) · History (4 works) · History (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Literature (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works)