Wenyi Shang
Biographic Data
| ID | 4604654 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wenyi Shang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wenyi |
| FAMILY NAME | Shang |
| SIGNATURE | SHANG W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1308-8422 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Kafka’s Literary Style
In this essay, we examine how the polyvalence of meaning in Kafka’s texts is engineered both semantically (on the narrative level) and syntactically (on the linguistic level), and we ask whether a computational approach can shed new light on the long-standing debate about the major characteristics of Kafka’s literary style. A mixed-method approach means that we seek out points of connection that interlink traditional humanist (i.e., interpretativ…
Disentangling semantic and prosodic features of English poetry
The distinction between genre and form is still contested in literary studies. While scholars associated with the New Formalism are criticized for perceiving everything as a form, digital humanists tend to argue that everything is a genre. In this research, we employed machine learning models to classify 36,635 English poems in the Chadwyck-Healey Literature Collections into twenty-seven categories, focusing on their semantic features (lexicons) …
Rediscussing the Political Struggle in the Light of Reform in Late 11th Century China under the View of Digital Humanities
In late 11th century, a reform carried out by Wang Anshi (1021–1086) brought about controversies and initiated a series of political struggles between factionalized reformers and anti-reformers. The origin and nature of these factionalized struggles have been discussed for a long time among scholars. In this paper, we discuss the issue based on the literary and political relationships among people in the era of the reform. First, two matrices are…
Cohort Succession Explains Most Change in Literary Culture
Many aspects of behavior are guided by dispositions that are relatively durable once formed. Political opinions and phonology, for instance, change largely through cohort succession. But evidence for cohort effects has been scarce in artistic and intellectual history; researchers in those fields more commonly explain change as an immediate response to recent innovations and events. We test these conflicting theories of change in a corpus of 10,83…
Cohort Succession Explains Most Change in Literary Culture
Many aspects of behavior are guided by dispositions that are relatively durable once formed. Political opinions and phonology, for instance, change largely through cohort succession. But evidence for cohort effects has been scarce in artistic and intellectual history; researchers in those fields more commonly explain change as an immediate response to recent innovations and events. We test these conflicting theories of change in a corpus of 10,83…
Disentangling semantic and prosodic features of English poetry
The distinction between genre and form is still contested in literary studies. While scholars associated with the New Formalism are criticized for perceiving everything as a form, digital humanists tend to argue that everything is a genre. In this research, we employed machine learning models to classify 36,635 English poems in the Chadwyck-Healey Literature Collections into twenty-seven categories, focusing on their semantic features (lexicons) …
Rediscussing the Political Struggle in the Light of Reform in Late 11th Century China under the View of Digital Humanities
In late 11th century, a reform carried out by Wang Anshi (1021–1086) brought about controversies and initiated a series of political struggles between factionalized reformers and anti-reformers. The origin and nature of these factionalized struggles have been discussed for a long time among scholars. In this paper, we discuss the issue based on the literary and political relationships among people in the era of the reform. First, two matrices are…
Cohort Succession Explains Most Change in Literary Culture
Many aspects of behavior are guided by dispositions that are relatively durable once formed. Political opinions and phonology, for instance, change largely through cohort succession. But evidence for cohort effects has been scarce in artistic and intellectual history; researchers in those fields more commonly explain change as an immediate response to recent innovations and events. We test these conflicting theories of change in a corpus of 10,83…
Kafka’s Literary Style
In this essay, we examine how the polyvalence of meaning in Kafka’s texts is engineered both semantically (on the narrative level) and syntactically (on the linguistic level), and we ask whether a computational approach can shed new light on the long-standing debate about the major characteristics of Kafka’s literary style. A mixed-method approach means that we seek out points of connection that interlink traditional humanist (i.e., interpretativ…
Disentangling semantic and prosodic features of English poetry
The distinction between genre and form is still contested in literary studies. While scholars associated with the New Formalism are criticized for perceiving everything as a form, digital humanists tend to argue that everything is a genre. In this research, we employed machine learning models to classify 36,635 English poems in the Chadwyck-Healey Literature Collections into twenty-seven categories, focusing on their semantic features (lexicons) …
Computational and Text Analysis Methods (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Digital Humanities and Scholarship (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Advanced Text Analysis Techniques (1 works) · Artificial Intelligence (1 works) · Authorship Attribution and Profiling (1 works)