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Building a dual dataset of text- and image-grounded conversations and summarisation in Gàidhlig (Scottish Gaelic)
Gàidhlig (Scottish Gaelic; gd) is spoken by about 57k people in Scotland,1 but remains an under-resourced language with respect to natural language processing in general and natural language generation (NLG) in particular. To address this gap, we developed the first datasets for Scottish Gaelic NLG, collecting both conversational and summarisation... -
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Towards an Ontology of Pre-20th Century Scientific Instrument Types
This paper introduces the project Tools of Knowledge: Modelling the Scientific Instrument Trade, 1550–1914, and focuses on our ongoing development of an ontology to represent knowledge about scientific instrument types produced during this period. After a brief introduction, we discuss the background to the project and a summary of previous...Middle, Sarah ; Butterworth, Alex
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Fashionable Masculinities in England and Beyond
The design, production, selling, and wearing of men’s clothing through the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries has had a significant impact on the visual culture and social experience of the modern world. It has also determined many of the underlying influences that have contributed to the development and expansion of...Breward, Christopher
visual culture, social experience, masculine consumption, and male clothing
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Global History in the History of Fashion
Over the twentieth century, multi-disciplinary academic studies addressed dress practice and bodily adornment from a variety of perspectives, assessing the question of fashion, though few communities outside the West were awarded this term until the past generation. Anthropologists took an ethnographic stance, with works that from the late 1980s became...Breward, Christopher ; Lemire, Beverly ; Riello, Giorgio
costume, bodily adornment, fashion history, and dress practice
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Analytical approaches to Egyptian goldwork
The structure and composition of ancient gold objects retain information about their long history of manufacture, from the exploitation of the ore to the finishing touches, as well as evidence of their use, deposition, and degradation. By developing an efficient analytical strategy, it is possible to retrieve that information. This...Guerra, Maria F ; Troalen, Lore G ; Martinón-Torres, Marcos ; Lemasson, Quentin ; Moignard, Brice …
Egyptian jewellery, analytical results, composition, ancient gold objects, and structure
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Middle Kingdom jewellery
The outstanding Middle Kingdom jewellery, entirely or partially made in cloisonné work, and often containing colourful beads of different materials to produce amazing polychrome effects and surface textures, also includes the earliest examples in Egypt of granulation. Many of these techniques are illustrated through the study of gold objects excavated...Guerra, Maria F ; Troalen, Lore G ; Maitland, Margaret ; Ponting, Matthew ; Price, Campbell …
excavations, granulation, gold , Middle Kingdom jewellery, and cloisonné work
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Second Intermediate Period jewellery
This chapter presents the technological study of the jewellery excavated at Qurna, together with a few additional examples of gold pieces that are either well contextualized, or that can be attributed to the Second Intermediate Period and early 18th Dynasty based on their inscriptions. These parallels include objects that are...Guerra, Maria F ; Troalen, Lore G ; Tate, James ; La Niece, Susan ; Miniaci, Gianluca …
Second Intermediate Period, technological study, 18th Dynasty, jewellery, and Qurna excavations
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New Kingdom jewellery
The technological study of a small number of objects produced mainly in the 18th Dynasty provides new data that can be related, typologically or geographically, to earlier studied objects. The analysis of the jewellery assemblage from tomb 296 at Riqqa, and of earrings from different sites, provides information on the...Guerra, Maria F ; Troalen, Lore G ; La Niece, Susan ; Meeks, Nigel ; Quirke, Stephen …
jewellery assemblage analysis, Qurna burial, 18th Dynasty, material culture, and tomb 296 at Riqqa
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Legislation and Persuasion; Portable Antiquities and the Limits of the Law: Some Scottish and British Perspectives
This chapter will continue the difficulties and challenges in translating heritage legislation from the bare facts of the law to a system that can operate successfully when set against the distinct challenges encountered when groups other than heritage professionals have an interest in accessing the archaeological record. In Scotland, as...Campbell, Stuart
Metal detecting , Scotland , Treasure trove , Antiquities market, and Portable antiquities
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A landscape of deposition
The Mount's Bay area has long been associated in the archaeological literature with the exchange of copper and tin. St Michael's Mount, in particular, has often been suggested to be the site of Ictis recorded by Pytheas the Greek in the 4th century BC (Hencken 1932, 158-188; Herring 2000, 116-118;...Knight, Matthew G
metalwork deposition, Bronze Age hoards, Archaeology, and exchange