Lecture Series: Enrique Manjavacas Arevalo

S.R.0.13 Rode Straat 14-16, Antwerpen, Belgium

Historical Language Models and their Application to Word Sense Disambiguation

Large Language Models (LLMs) have become the cornerstone of current methods in Computational Linguistics. As the Humanities look towards computational methods in order to analyse large quantities of text, the question arises as to how these models are best developed and applied to the specificities of their domains. In this talk, I will address the application of LLMs to Historical Languages, following up on the MacBERTh project. In the context of the development of LLMs for Historical Languages, I will address how they can be specifically fine-tuned with efficiency to tackle the problem of Word Sense Disambiguation. In a series of experiments relying on data from the Oxford English Dictionary, I will highlight how non-parametric and metric learning approaches can be an interesting alternative to traditional fine-tuning methods that rely on classifiers that learn to disambiguate specific lemmas.

FREE

Antwerp DH Summer School 2023 – Computer-assisted genetic editing: from handwritten text recognition to keystroke logging

UAntwerp City Campus Prinsstraat 13, Antwerp, Belgium

Intensive 5-day entry level hands-on course on making digital editions of analogue and born-digital texts. In this course, participants will acquire a set of basic computer skills such as XML and handwritten text recognition to design a TEI-compatible Digital Scholarly Edition and deploy keystroke logging technology to record and analyse born-digital texts. 

€200 – €250

Lecture series: Mike Kestemont

S.R.118 Rodestraat 14 (via ingang Lange Winkelstraat), Antwerpen, Belgium

The wandering verse: the computational detection of micro-intertexts in medieval literature

Intertextuality is a ubiquitous concept in literary studies, which – because of its notoriously open-ended nature – covers a variety of correspondences between texts. Signaling intertexts is an important editorial responsibility, because it can deepen one’s reading experience of a literary work. Text reuse detection has become a popular task in the computational humanities too, although its evaluation is complicated by the lack of exhaustively annotated datasets of intertexts. Historic scholarship on medieval epics provides us with a wealthy inventory of micro-intertexts between medieval works, although their status is still hotly debated. Some philological communities have been keen on identifying intertexts as authorial features, whereas others have stressed their conventional status, especially in the wake of the oral-formulaic theory. In this talk, I will present a study on Middle Dutch epic literature, as well as an extension of this work to contemporary Middle English literature, in particular the bookshop theory surrounding the famous Auchinleck manuscript. I will argue that the intricate web woven by computationally detected intertexts can invite radically innovative readings of medieval literature. 

FREE

GitHub Tutorial

S.R.A.111 Lange Winkelstraat 9, Antwerpen, Belgium

On 12 February, Pieter Fivez gives a crash course on GitHub, offering insights into its functionalities such as data storage, version control and collaborative coding. The tutorial will last about an hour.

Networking Event: DH Virtual Discussion Group

online , Belgium

Want to get involved in the Digital Humanities community in Belgium?
Join the DH Virtual Discussion Group for Early Career Researchers in Belgium!

Tutorial: Vev’s Design by Caroline Vandyck

S.A.202 Prinsstraat 13, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium

Have you always dreamed of having a visually appealing website to present your research? But you never knew where to start? In that case, join Caroline Vandyck’s tutorial on Vev’s Design! Vev’s Design is an online design studio that can be used to build your own interactive website in an intuitive way. Its prime focus is […]

Guest lecture: Melvin Wevers on Working with Audio Files

S.A.206 Prinsstraat 13, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium

For Platform{DH} we open up some guest lectures given in the Master Digital Text Analysis. First up: Melvin Wever’s guest lecture on working with audio files for the course Computational Literary Studies. Description In this guest lecture, we will work on audio files. Besides loading, editing, and visualising audio files, we will extract different kinds […]

Networking Event: DH Virtual Discussion Group

online , Belgium

Want to get involved in the Digital Humanities community in Belgium?
Join the DH Virtual Discussion Group for Early Career Researchers in Belgium!

Antwerp DH Summer School 2024 – Computer-assisted genetic editing: from medieval manuscripts to born-digital documents

UAntwerp City Campus Prinsstraat 13, Antwerp, Belgium

Intensive 5-day entry level hands-on course on making digital editions of analogue and born-digital texts. In this course, participants will acquire a set of basic computer skills such as XML mark-up language and handwritten text recognition to design a fully-fledged, TEI-compatible Digital Scholarly Edition and deploy keystroke logging technology to record and analyse born-digital texts.

€200 – €250