Basic research on world-historical methodology of modern architectural history

2021 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 19K15186
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Review Section: Basic Section 23040:Architectural history and design-related
• Research Institution: Kyoto University of Arts and Crafts (2021); Chiba University (2019-2020)
• Principal Investigator: Emoto Hiroshi 京都美術工芸大学, 建築学部建築学科, 講師 (10831422)
• Project Period (FY): 2019-04-01 – 2022-03-31
• Keywords: 近現代建築史 / ビッグデータ / 自然言語処理 / グローバル・ヒストリー

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research is devoted to the development of "EQstora," an application that integrates the search and registration of proper nouns, batch searching, and the organization and analysis of search results, with the aim of improving efficiency and promoting heuristic research in the study of the history of literature. In this research, the main target of analysis is first general history books of architecture. It is now possible to search with high precision for proper names, mainly personal names. In addition, the proper names registered here can be searched again against multiple document data, and the contents mentioned in each architectural history book can be graphed in a unified manner to provide a bird's-eye view of the trends in each historical description.

Free Research Field

近現代建築史

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

本研究は、これまでにさまざまな時期、地域、言語で出版されてきた建築史書の記述のトレンドや影響関係を明らかにするための、初歩的な「道具づくり」の研究です。それらのおびただしい数の歴史書には、それぞれ多くの固有名（人名、建物名など）が含まれていますが、それらをすべて人力で整理するのは不可能です。自動的で精度の高い固有名詞の抜き出し、固有名に関するスムースな情報登録、そして登録された語句の横断的な分析・図示が可能になることで、「建築史学史」研究の飛躍をもたらします。