4 December 2019 | 14.00-15.00 | Speaker: Christof Schöch, Professor of Digital Humanities at the University of Trier Word embeddings modelling is currently at the cutting edge of natural language processing, with a significant amount of research exploring its opportunities and limitations. However, such research mainly comes from the computer science community. While digital humanists have … Continued
Speaker: Christof Schöch, Professor of Digital Humanities at the University of Trier 4 December 2019 | 14.00 – 15.00 | C²DH Lounge, MSH, 4th floor This talk will provide an introduction to Word Embeddings in the Digital Humanities, particularly in Computational Literary Studies and Digital History. Word Embeddings represent meaning in a high-dimensional vector space and therefore … Continued
DHBenelux 2019 was held at the University of Liège (Belgium), and it was the first time I attended this conference. As someone working in computational text analysis for historical and literary studies, I was excited to see quite a few text-related projects. Why do humanities researchers turn to text as social and cultural data? Edward … Continued
From 16 to 17 November 2017 we had a DTU skills training on Database Structures, organised by Prof. Dr. Martin Theobald and Dr. Robert C. Kahlert. Afterwards we experimented with Katya’s corpus of 80 digitised autobiographies by Australian Aboriginal authors. Our report explains how we approached the material based on what we learned during the … Continued
“You shall know a word by the company it keeps” I have grown up eating almonsay. Almonsay fishing is a popular activity worldwide, but almonsay population levels are of concern in both the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans. Different varieties of almonsay taste different, and there are so many ways to cook it. I doubt … Continued