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AI helps identify lost work by Spain's key author from "Golden Age"

STORY: AI helps identify lost work by Spain's key author from "Golden Age" DATELINE: Feb. 7, 2023 LENGTH: 0:01:14 LOCATION: Madrid CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of books by Felix Lope de Vega 2. various of Spain's National Library STORYLINE: Artificial intelligence (AI) technology has led to the discovery of a lost play by one of the greats of Spanish literature, Felix Lope de Vega. The National Library on Jan. 31 confirmed that Lope de Vega, a key author of Spain's Golden Age, wrote "La francesa Laura" (The Frenchwoman Laura) a few years before he died in 1635. Since 2017, scholars from the universities of Valladolid and Vienna have been using AI to help determine the authorship of plays from the 16th and 17th centuries. "La francesa Laura," which was catalogued in the library's archive of 85,000 works as anonymous, was among 1,300 Golden Age plays transcribed by the text recognition platform, Transkribus. The text was then identified after it was analyzed by the Stylo AI program, which compa

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French writer Annie Ernaux wins 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature

STORY: French writer Annie Ernaux wins 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature DATELINE: Oct. 7, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:35 LOCATION: Stockholm CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. SOUNDBITE(English): MATS MALM, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy 2. various of Swedish Academy STORYLINE: French writer Annie Ernaux won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Swedish Academy announced in Stockholm on Thursday. SOUNDBITE (English): MATS MALM, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy "The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2022 is awarded to the French author Annie Ernaux, for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory." In her writing, Ernaux consistently and from different angles, examines a life marked by strong disparities regarding gender, language and class. Her path to authorship was long and arduous, the Swedish Academy said. Ernaux was born in 1940 and grew up in the small town of Yvetot in Normandy, France. She is one of the most i

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Prince Shotoku Taishi - son of 31st Emperor Yomei-tenno

Prince Shotoku (574622) - also known as Prince Umayado or Prince Kamitsumiya - a semi-legendary regent and a politician of the Asuka period in Japan who served under Empress Suiko. The son of Emperor Yomei and his consort, Princess Anahobe no Hashihito, Shotoku commissioned the Shitenno-ji (temple) in Settsu Province (present-day Osaka) after his military victory against the powerful Mononobe clan. The Prince was an ardent Buddhist and is traditionally attributed the authorship of the Sangyo Gisho or "Annotated Commentaries on the Three Sutras". Date: 7th century

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Madonna and Child painting, Raffael Santi

Raffael Santi's the Madonna and Child painting at the press conference in Prague, Czech Republic, September 10, 2020. Czech experts from the InsightArt firm, using a radiation research method, assisted in reliably proving Raffael Santi's authorship of the Madonna and Child painting that was only ascribed to him previously. The experts used the particle detector developed in the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), produced by a Czech company and also used in outer space research. (CTK Photo/Katerina Sulova)

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Jiri Uher, Madonna and Child painting, Raffael Santi

Physicist Jiri Uher speaks at the press conference about Raffael Santi's authorship of the Madonna and Child painting in Prague, Czech Republic, September 10, 2020. Czech experts from the InsightArt firm, using a radiation research method, assisted in reliably proving Raffael Santi's authorship of the Madonna and Child painting that was only ascribed to him previously. The experts used the particle detector developed in the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), produced by a Czech company and also used in outer space research. (CTK Photo/Katerina Sulova)

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Jiri Fajt, Madonna and Child painting, Raffael Santi

Art historian Jiri Fajt speaks at the press conference about Raffael Santi's authorship of the Madonna and Child painting in Prague, Czech Republic, September 10, 2020. Czech experts from the InsightArt firm, using a radiation research method, assisted in reliably proving Raffael Santi's authorship of the Madonna and Child painting that was only ascribed to him previously. The experts used the particle detector developed in the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), produced by a Czech company and also used in outer space research. (CTK Photo/Katerina Sulova)

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Jiri Fajt, Madonna and Child painting, Raffael Santi

Art historian Jiri Fajt speaks at the press conference about Raffael Santi's authorship of the Madonna and Child painting in Prague, Czech Republic, September 10, 2020. Czech experts from the InsightArt firm, using a radiation research method, assisted in reliably proving Raffael Santi's authorship of the Madonna and Child painting that was only ascribed to him previously. The experts used the particle detector developed in the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), produced by a Czech company and also used in outer space research. (CTK Photo/Katerina Sulova)

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Pal Zavada

Hungarian writer Pal Zavada, left, starts literary festival Month of Authorship Reading with Hungary as guest this year, on July 1, 2020, in Brno, Czech Republic. (CTK Photo/Igor Zehl)

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Pal Zavada

Hungarian writer Pal Zavada starts literary festival Month of Authorship Reading with Hungary as guest this year, on July 1, 2020, in Brno, Czech Republic. (CTK Photo/Igor Zehl)

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Pal Zavada

Hungarian writer Pal Zavada starts literary festival Month of Authorship Reading with Hungary as guest this year, on July 1, 2020, in Brno, Czech Republic. (CTK Photo/Igor Zehl)

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Pal Zavada

Hungarian writer Pal Zavada starts literary festival Month of Authorship Reading with Hungary as guest this year, on July 1, 2020, in Brno, Czech Republic. (CTK Photo/Igor Zehl)

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Pal Zavada

Hungarian writer Pal Zavada starts literary festival Month of Authorship Reading with Hungary as guest this year, on July 1, 2020, in Brno, Czech Republic. (CTK Photo/Igor Zehl)