Do historians use digital tools in the same way? This question will be central in this blog. As historians of medicine, working with digitised medical journals and digital tools, with an interest in the development of discourses, concepts and ideas, we took the opportunity to compare our research methods. In her PhD, Eva Andersen (University … Continued
If you want to participate, please send an email to vanessa.napolitano@ext.uni.lu in order to get the Webex-link. Topic modelling (TM) is a computational, statistical method to discover patterns and topics in large collections of (unstructured) text (e.g., emails, book chapters, newspapers’ articles, letters, reports). Its main value lies in the possibility to find semantic patterns … Continued
DTU-Seminar conducted by Lorella Viola (DHARPA, C²DH) 27 May 2020 | 14:-15:00 | Webex-Platform If you want to participate, please send an email to vanessa.napolitano@ext.uni.lu in order to get the Webex-link. Topic modelling (TM) is a computational, statistical method to discover patterns and topics in large collections of (unstructured) text (e.g., emails, book chapters, newspapers’ … Continued
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
How can we analyse approximately 70 years of content within the British Journal of psychiatry (BJP) amounting to a total of 51.479 pages? This pressing question extends to the French, Dutch, Belgian and German equivalent of this journal. I gathered a corpus of between 250.000 and 300.000 pages. Furthermore, the content inside these journals is … Continued