Oggetto specifico di questo progetto di ricerca è la geografia medievale e umanistica (secc. VI-XV), vale a dire i testi latini che includono descrizioni geografiche individuabili nello spazio letterario del Medioevo e dell'Umanesimo europeo. L'immagine del mondo che la Civiltà medievale ha fissato nell'arco di dieci secoli si rivela fondamentale per comprendere il grado di conoscenza geografica e l'evoluzione del pensiero occidentale nella storia europea. L'ampio arco temporale del Medioevo esibisce una produzione eterogenea. Le opere e gli excursus che descrivono paesi, terre e città appartengono a diversi generi letterari: descrizioni universali dell'Ecumene, relazioni e diari di viaggio, itineraria, trattati corografici e topografici. Il progetto intende offrire un'indagine completa di queste opere geografiche; classificare autori, generi e contenuti; censire la tradizione manoscritta, le edizioni e la bibliografia di ogni opera; fornire edizioni critiche di alcuni testi rappresentativi; stilare un indice toponomastico mediolatino; sviluppare l'ontologia e gli strumenti informatici per realizzare un Portale Web (I.M.A.G.O. = Index Medii Aevi Geographiae Operum).
Durata
49 Months
Istituto finanziario
Ministeriale/Governativo
In Evidenza
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A general framework for distributed approximate similarity search with arbitrary distances
26-09-2024
While many similarity search algorithms are specifically adapted to metric distances,they are unsuitable for alternatives like the cosine distance, which has gained popularity, particularly with embeddings and text mining. To address thisissue, we propose GDASC (General Distri...
In this talk, I will focus on a connection between stable-failures refinement and the ioco conformance relation. Both behavioural relations underlie methodologies that have gained traction in industry: stable-failures refinement is used in several commercial Model-Driven Engin...
Explainability in deep learning models applied to spatio-temporal problems
13-09-2024
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming society, affecting everything from industry to decision making, and concerns about its transparency have increased. Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) is crucial to address this problem, allowing to obtain a better understand...
Making 5G Networks Reliable for Next-generation Applications using AI
27-05-2024
The emergence of 5G technology marks a significant milestone in developing telecommunication networks, enabling exciting new applications such as augmented reality and self-driving vehicles. However, these improvements bring an increased management complexity and a special con...
Cargo Cult Architecture: An Empirical Investigation into the Maintainability Benefits of Design Patterns
24-05-2024
There have been many claims for the benefits of using patterns in software design and implementation. In this research we were interested to understand whether adopting patterns positively affects a project's long-term maintainability, as measured by its feature velocity and ...
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The talk will reflect oninsights from the current affective experiences of users in socialvirtual reality, as well as emerging cultures and practices. These includedrinking together in VR, groups that choose to remain mute, phantom touchsensations, blocking practices, and rela...
In this talk, I will describe my encoder-centric view of neural methods for retrieval and how different types of approaches compare under this framework. In some sense, traditional methods like BM25 are simply handcrafted encoders; in another, DSI (differentiable search index)...