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Introduction
When one nowadays expects to understand one's own research field, literary analysis or otherwise, it is sensible to make use of the novel computational methods and tools and converge them with traditional research paradigm within that field (Naukkarinen and Bragge, 2016). Contemporary humanities research has expanded beyond anything that could be considered traditional, digital humanities is the umbrella term that describes much of this kind of work (Varner and Hswe, 2016). Digital humanities first emerged in the late 1940s as "humanities computing," when it formed the basis for such projects as the Index Thomisticus conceived by an Italian priest named Father Roberto Busa. Today, digital humanities are applying advanced computational tools to more diverse disciplines, ranging from history and literature to cultural studies (Mone, 2016), and even computational landscape. However, digital humanities must be understood in the context of the history, methodologies, and perceptions which its practitioners bring to the table (Jennifer and Kevin, 2013). Grounded in the interactive values of humanities and techniques, the digital humanities attempts to lead the humanities community into new domain by promoting experimentation, collaboration, and openness (Spiro, 2012).
As an interdisciplinary movement, digital humanities is the result of a dynamic dialogue between humanistic exploration and digital means. Digital technologies will keep coming, although digital humanities has been growing rapidly around the world, it will remain essential that uptake of technologies is a modern but necessary part of the humanities and arts, and even as broad a sense as possible (Terras, 2016). At the same time, digital humanist still need to push harder to get humanistic approaches and methods into the digital humanities (Berdan, 2013).
Digital humanities is not limited to any one discipline or field, in the digital era it has become a catch-all term for anyone who is engaging in the discovery, preservation, and interpretation of humanities materials (documents, images, sound) to enable a better and deeper understanding of current society. To some extent it is difficult to understand and interpret what digital humanities actually is, but a core feature is that it encourages researchers and practitioners to think about application probability of digital methods in traditional humanities disciplines.
The rest of this study is organized as follows. A literature review is briefly described in "Literature review"...