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Antwerp Spring Academy in DH 2014

S.R.213 Rodestraat 14 (via ingang Lange Winkelstraat), Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium

Python

The focus is on text analysis using the popu­lar scrip­ting language Python, which is rapidly becoming the standard program­ming language for computa­tional text ana­lysis in digi­tal Humani­ties.

Covered topics include: basic text proces­sing tasks; using text-mining tool­kits such as Pattern and NLTK; applications of text proces­sing (e.g., sentiment mining, topic classi­fication, auto­matic clustering); XML parsing (e.g., TEI-XML) in Python.

For the work­shop, the instruc­tors will make use of a so-called Python note­book – a success­ful and enga­ging teaching for­mat. Python notebooks are a course book and coding ‘sandbox’ at once. Experience with previous EADH and DARIAH-DE Summer Schools in Nijmegen and Göttingen has shown that this format is extremely engaging for resear­chers who have had no signi­ficant expo­sure to digi­tal methods yet.

€100

Beckett Digital Manuscript Project Workshop

S.D.014 Prinsstraat 13, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium

A Workshop on Digital Scholarly Editing, sponsored by the European Research Council (ERC), the Digital Scholarly Editions Initial Training Network DiXiT (Marie Curie ITN), and the University of Antwerp.

Lecture Series: John Ashley Burgoyne

S.A.107 Prinsstraat 13, Antwerpen, België, Belgium

How to Make it Stick: A Study of Long-Term Musical Memorability Using Citizen Science.

Psycholinguist Steven Pinker once described music as being ‘auditory cheesecake’, similar to pornography and alcohol. Indeed, human beings do not seem to get enough of it. Music can be enchanting, annoying and intriguing. It helps us to concentrate or forget, it can make us jubilant or melancholic. Some songs, the so-called ‘earwigs’, can haunt us for days. These earwigs in particular are the subject of the upcoming talk. Our speaker will discuss what makes songs stick (i.e. what makes them ‘catchy’) by computationally analysing song structure and music recognition patterns by humans.

Lecture Series: Barbara Bordalejo

S.R.213 Rodestraat 14 (via ingang Lange Winkelstraat), Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium

The Future of the Book and the Books of the Future.

In her talk, Bordalejo will discuss issues relating to publishing, eReaders and multimedia books.

DH Benelux 2015

Hof van Liere Prinsstraat 13, Antwerpen, Belgium

The DHBenelux conference welcomes contributions and participants from all areas of research and teaching in Digital Humanities. While the conference has a focus on recent advances in Belgium, The Netherlands, and Luxembourg, we do warmly welcome contributions from outside the Benelux. The language of the conference is international English. We hope that we may welcome many scholars to the European scientific meeting platform that DHBenelux will constitute in summer 2015 for the Digital Humanities.

Antwerp Spring Academy in DH 2015

S.D.424 Prinsstraat 13, Antwerpen, Belgium

Data Visualisation

This three-day workshop will take place from 10 to 12 June 2015 at the University of Antwerp, Belgium, following the DHBenelux 2015 conference hosted at the same location. It offers the perfect opportunity for the conference’s participants (and other interested scholars) to learn how to visualize their data in interesting new ways.

The workshop will be taught by the developers of NodeBox, a data visualization tool created by the Experimental Media Research Group (EMRG). EMRG is a cross domain research group associated with the St. Lucas University College of Arts and Design (Antwerp, Belgium). During the works­hop, partici­pants will learn how to cap­ture, prepare, refine and visualize their data; gain insights in the theory of data visualisation; and start to look at data in a dif­ferent way.

€100

Lecture Series: Benno Stein

S.C.001 Prinsstraat 13, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium

Applying Heuristic Search Technology for Constrained Paraphrasing.

To paraphrase means to rewrite content whilst preserving the original meaning. Paraphrasing is important in fields such as text reuse in journalism, anonymising work, and improving the quality of customer-written reviews, among other. Paraphrasing is often considered as an analysis problem – asking the following question: Are these two sentences (paragraphs) paraphrases?

DARIAH-BE Kick-off Event

Hof van Liere Prinsstraat 13, Antwerpen, Belgium

The DARIAH-BE kick-off meeting was organised in Antwerp (27 November 2015). This event coincided with the launch of this Digital Humanities research community, DHu.F.

Lecture Series: Folgert Karsdorp

S.D.009 Prinsstraat 13, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium

From Rapacious Wolfs to Independent Women: Cultural Transmission of Little Red Riding Hood.

In his lecture, Folgert Karsdorp presents new perspectives on the structure and development of story networks. A story network, defined as a non-hierarchical agglomeration of pre-textual relationships, represents a stream of retellings in which retellers modify and adapt retellings in a gradual and accumulative way. I investigate the development of the world’s biggest fairy tale icon: Little Red Riding Hood. No story has been retold, reinterpreted, recontextualized and reconfigured as often as the story about the little girl in red who meets a wolf in the forest. On the basis of a large collection of Dutch retellings of the story, I show that the evolution of its story network is largely determined by two random mechanisms of selection: cultural prominence and temporal attractiveness.

Managing Historical Data in MS Access

Campus Etterbeek (VUB) Boulevard de la Plaine 2, Ixelles, Belgium

The workshop is a training course full of tips and tricks for collecting and analysing historical data in a Microsoft Access database. This unique workshop will tackle specific database problems concerning historical data: different spellings of proper names, missing data, managing chronology, variations in currency systems etc.