Humanities
TALK: Leigh Lieberman
Fowler A222"All the Small Things: Artifacts in Urban Context" Dr. Leigh Lieberman, Visiting Professor of History and Director of the Digital Research Studio at the Claremont Colleges. In recent years, the study of ancient artifacts has moved beyond straightforward typologies, descriptions, and quantifications. New approaches to the analysis of material culture have drawn attention to the myriad...
TALK: Using Technology to Visualize Textual Instability
Rolfe 2118 UCLA, Los Angeles, United StatesThis talk describes the process of creating a digital visualization tool, based on Hugh Olmstead’s plectogram, to help the critical editor (Romanchuk) recover the original shape of the first episodes of the epic Digenis Akritis from the “reshuffled” abridgment, and identify variant readings from the Amazonian “cento” or patchwork quilt and incorporate them in their original places; and to help readers follow the critical reconstruction and understand pre-modern editing practices more generally.
TALK: “Listening from Afar: Topic Modeling Analysis of Testimonies from the International Criminal Tribunals”
Scholarly Innovation Lab Charles E. Young Research LibraryIn this talk, Dr. Keydar will present the results of a new study analyzing large testimonial dataset using unsupervised topic modeling. Applying LDA topic modeling to a corpus of court transcripts taken from a case before the International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), Dr. Keydar will present a novel method for empirically assessing the international tribunals’ capacity to listen to large numbers of eye-witnesses. Harnessing the large quantity of testimonies, she uses topic modeling in order to explore latent themes, semantic fields and gaps between the language of the victims and that of the court.
Workshop: The digital edition as a computational pipeline
Scholarly Innovation Lab Charles E. Young Research LibraryA computational pipeline is a way of modeling the flow of information through a sequence of programs or operations, so that the output of each step becomes the input to the next. The decomposition of complex operations into discrete individual steps, each of which does only one thing, and none of which depends on knowing how the others operate, supports distributed, modular development; enhances maintenance and sustainability; and enables reusability. In this workshop we will examine how the concept of computational pipelines can be extended to model the planning, development, and deployment of digital textual editions. Participants are encouraged to come prepared to discuss their own digital edition plans and projects.