30 May, lecture on Machine Learning to Read Yesterday’s News by Dr. Marten Düring
HDSM is excited to announce that Dr. Marten Düring will be presenting the lecture titled “Machine Learning to Read Yesterday’s News.” We are pleased to invite you to join us for this event, which will be held in a hybrid format. If you would like to participate online, kindly register through Eventbrite.
Newspapers count among the most attractive sources for historical research. Following mass digitisation efforts over the past decades, researchers now face the problem of overabundance of materials which can no longer be managed with keyword search and basic content filtering techniques alone even though only a fraction of the overall archival record has actually been made available. This poses challenges for the contextualisation and critical assessment of these sources which can be effectively addressed using semantic enrichments based on natural language processing techniques. In this lecture we will discuss epistemological challenges in data exploration and interface design as well as opportunities in terms of source criticism and content exploration, based on the impresso interface.
Dr. Marten Düring is Assistant Professor and Senior Research Scientist at Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH). His research explores the opportunities and challenges inherent in this transformation and is positioned on the intersection between historical thinking, novel computational methods, and software design.
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