Learn 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.

The 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....

What 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 it a kind of ontology, this talk suggests that digital develops in the course of what we call “the ecology and evolution of images.”  It’s no...

Join 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 involved with digital humanities since 2004, working on a variety of projects including a medieval Russian database, a digital research environment for Bulgarian linguistics and...

The 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, innovation, and social entrepreneurship across the campus. This year’s faculty projects come from across north and south campus and include a tech tool to decipher infant...