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26 Gen 2022 17:00

Natural Language Processing for the Digital Humanities

Ca’ Dolfin, Room Silvio Trentin and online

Seminars in Digital and Public Humanities

Seminars series organized by Venice Centre for Digital and Public Humanities (VeDPH), Department of Humanities, Ca’ Foscari University Venice Spring Term 2022 - 5 p.m. CEST/CET - (The seminars will be held both in Venice and online as virtual events).

26 January 2022 - Ioannis Pavlopoulos (Ca’ Foscari - Stockholms Universitet) 

Natural Language Processing for the Digital Humanities:  Focusing on Art History and the Homeric Question  

Can Natural Language Processing (NLP) operate as a means to study the relationship between topography and its visual renderings? This presentation focuses on this question for early modern Japanese ukiyo-e landscape prints. Named Entity Recognition (NER) is used as a tool for ‘distant viewing’ or macroanalysis of visual datasets. And can NLP facilitate distant 'reading’ as well as ‘viewing'? As it will be presented, NLP can assist with problems where close reading is difficult, as for example with the Homeric question. Iliad and Odyssey are products of a collective effort involving numerous authors, each contributing unknown portions of text, and it still cannot be determined whether a single individual (or distinct group of poets) contributed larger chunks of such additional verses, or even whole Books. By employing language modeling, however, one can analyse computationally the
authorship of Homeric text and study the linguistic proximity and divergence between the respective books.

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VeDPH, Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici

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