Special Issue on Information Processing in the Arts and Humanities
The papers in this special issue focus on information processing in the arts and humanities. Recent years have witnessed the emergence of various sophisticated information processing tools — including some involving artificial intelligence — that are capable of interrogating increasingly complex datasets in order to tackle challenges arising in a wide range of application domains.
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