24 February: DCLRS -- John Nerbonne, Friday, February 26, 16:00 (TCD AB3074)
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Friday this week (February 26), at 16:00, in room 3074, Arts Building
(TCD), Professor John Nerbonne (University of Groningen and University
of Frieburg) speaks on:
The soul in the machine: Computational linguistics and Digital Humanities
Interest in the digital humanities (DH) is rising very quickly. The two
most recent digital humanities conferences in Europe, DH 2012 in Hamburg
and DH 2014 in Lausanne, attracted 500 and 740 participants, respectively.
The greatest interest is found in text-oriented work, especially in
literature and history. Some areas of linguistics that had not earlier
attracted much interest from computational linguistics (CL), such as
historical linguistics, dialectology and psycholinguistics are likewise
witnessing an upsurge of interest in using computational techniques.
CL offers indispensable tools for the preparation of large text collections
(corpora), including tools for word tokenization, for lemmatization, for
named-entity recognition, for recognizing paragraph and sentence
boundaries, for recognizing spelling alternatives and for normalizing
spelling, for linking texts to external knowledge sources such as lexica
and gazetteers, for sentiment analysis and for topic modeling. All these CL
methods are now in use in DH, and their intelligent use naturally benefits
from the hands of experienced developers.
DH also offers a wealth of opportunities to CLers to become involved in
areas of science and scholarship outside its normal "home fields" of
linguistics and computer science. Exciting horizons are becoming visible!
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The Dublin Computational Linguistics Research Seminar series is a
cooperation among Trinity College Dublin, Dublin City University,
University College Dublin and the Dublin Institute of Technology, a
long standing collaboration which overlaps with the SFI CNGL/ADAPT
centres.
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