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.
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 projects through collaborations with graduate student Research and Instructional Technology Consultants (RITCs). To fulfill this mission, the program draws on the available resources of the...
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 Program sits at the intersection of theory and practice. In this program, students learn how to think critically about digital tools and use these tools...
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 workshop materials available at her GitHub site: https://github.com/arsena-k/Word2Vec-bias-extraction. The specific Jupyter notebook she shared in this workshop is available at https://github.com/arsena-k/Word2Vec-bias-extraction/blob/master/Part_A_W2V_training_performance_exploring.ipynb.
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 of these lost experiences out of oral history interviews with survivors. He will also demonstrate how a data-driven anthology of these fragments have been built....