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SUMMARY:Distinguished Lectures in Digital Humanities: Early Modern Informa
 tion Overload: Making Sense of Big Data in the Humanities
DTSTART:20160113T090000
DTEND:20160113T110000
DTSTAMP:20260416T114040Z
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CATEGORIES:Miscellaneous
DESCRIPTION:Dr Glenn H. Roe\, Lecturer in Digital Humanities\, Centre of D
 igital Humanities Research\, Australian National University\nOne of the ma
 in challenges for the digital humanities is to develop scalable reading ap
 proaches—both distant and close—implying a new hermeneutic circle that
  allows scholars to move from macro- to micro-analyses and back. This talk
  will outline some previous attempts at addressing this challenge\, using 
 data mining and machine learning techniques to explore large-scale dataset
 s drawn primarily from the French Enlightenment period. It will then prese
 nt several projects that use sequence alignment algorithms to identify int
 ertextual relationships over large heterogeneous corpora.\n\nThese techniq
 ues allow us to trace the spread of cultural information\, and in particul
 ar\, various instances of text re-use—citations\, commonplaces\, borrowi
 ngs\, and the like—across a number of significant collections\, includin
 g the more than 200\,000 works found in the ECCO (Eighteenth Century Colle
 ctions Online) database.
LOCATION:BC 420 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==BC%20420
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