Text Analysis Research Cluster Meeting: Topic Modeling Projects in Progress
Scholarly Innovation Lab Charles E. Young Research Library2 talks on topic modeling projects in progress: Todd Presner's talk focuses on topic modeling a multilingual collection of 120 Holocaust survivor testimonies made in 1946 by David Boder (on a wire recorder in Displaced Persons Camps). Dave Shepard will share his topic model of authors writing in English in the first half of the seventeenth century to place Andrew Marvell's “Horatian Ode” in its broader context and to show that, far from being ambivalent, “Horatian Ode” expresses a subtle, but clear, critique of Cromwell.
DH Research Accelerator Workshop
Scholarly Innovation Lab Charles E. Young Research LibraryThe Digital Humanities Program, in partnership with HumTech, cordially invites you to participate in the 2019-2020 Digital Humanities Research Accelerator Program. This program is designed to advance faculty-led digital research...
DH Infosession: What Can you do with a DH Minor?
Royce 314 314 Royce Hall, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesCome join us on April 9th to learn about the DH program, the types of skills you will learn, and the directions you can take your career in. The DH...
Call for Graduate Student Applications: Summer 2019-Winter 2020 GSR
The DH Program is excited to announce its application for the Summer Workshop in Online Instruction to create an online Introduction to Digital Humanities course based on its successful face-to-face version. If our application is successful, we will be able to hire two GSRs, each with a stipend of $6000, to assist with the transformation this summer (2019).
Call for Graduate Student Applications: Fall 2019 TAship in DH 101
The Digital Humanities Program is looking for 2 50% TAs for the DH 101 class in Fall 2019. These individuals will work closely with the course instructor, Dr. Sanders Garcia, and will be responsible for teaching specific digital tools and methods throughout the quarter, assisting students with technical questions, and grading assignments for the students in their sections.
Text Analysis Working Group: Workshop on Word2Vec models
Scholarly Innovation Lab Charles E. Young Research LibraryLearn how to use Word2Vec models in this upcoming workshop! Word2vec is a two-layer neural net that processes text. Read more and try it out! Alina has made all of her...
In Search of the Drowned in the Words of the Saved: Testimonial Fragments of the Holocaust
Scholarly Innovation Lab Charles E. Young Research LibraryThe experiences of murdered victims of Nazi persecution perished with them. In this lecture, Gabór Tóth will discuss the ways text and data mining technology has helped to recover fragments...
Gregory Flaxman and Anne Sauvagnargues: On the Digital (before the Digital)
Kaplan 348What does it mean to speak of a pre-history of the digital? In response to recent efforts to read the concept back into the history of philosophy or to render...
DH in Every Language with Quinn Dombrowski
Rolfe 2118 UCLA, Los Angeles, United StatesJoin UCLA's Excellence in Pedagogy and Teaching (EPIC) Digital Pedagogy Seminar for a discussion of teaching with digital tools in multiple languages. Sponsored by UCLA EPIC. Quinn Dombrowski has been...
Faculty Innovation Fellows “Pitch Day”
Engineering VI AuditoriumThe Faculty Innovation Fellows is a new program co-sponsored by the Vice Chancellor of Research, the UCLA Technology Development Group, and Startup UCLA. Its purpose is to support startup culture,...