28.2296, Summer Schools: Doing Text Analytics for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences with CLARIN/Ireland

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Subject: 28.2296, Summer Schools: Doing Text Analytics for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences with CLARIN/Ireland

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Date: Tue, 23 May 2017 14:10:02
From: Karolina Badzmierowska [karolina at clarin.eu]
Subject: Doing Text Analytics for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences with CLARIN/Ireland

Doing Text Analytics for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences with CLARIN/Ireland

Host Institution: CLARIN ERIC
Coordinating Institution: National University of Ireland, Galway
Website: https://www.clarin.eu/event/2017/doing-text-analytics-digital-humanities-and-social-sciences-clarin-ldk-tutorial

Dates: 18-Jun-2017 - 18-Jun-2017
Location: Galway, Ireland

Focus: This tutorial will take place on 18 June 2017, as part of the preconference programme for LDK 2017, the conference on Language, Data and Knowledge that will take place on 19-20 June 2017 in Galway, Ireland. 

See http://ldk2017.org/ for more details.

 The tutorial is co-organized by CLARIN and DARIAH-Ireland.
Minimum Education Level: MA

Description:
Background and motivation:

Text is a basic material, a primary data layer, in many areas of humanities
and social sciences. If we want to move forward with the agenda that the
fields of digital humanities and computational social sciences are projecting,
it is vital to bring together the technical areas that deal with automated
text processing, and scholars in the humanities and social sciences. Much
progress has been made in the last two decades in text analytics, a field that
draws on recent advances in computational linguistics, information retrieval
and machine learning. By now we know what to expect from basic tools, such as
named entity recognition. To foster new areas of research, it is necessary to
not only understand what is out there in terms of proven technologies and
infrastructures such as CLARIN, but also how the developers of text analytics
can work with researchers in the humanities and social sciences to understand
the challenges in each other’s field better. What are the research questions
of the researchers working on the texts? Can answering these questions be
supported by computational models (in a non-reductionistic way)?

Aims:

In two lectures, devoted to text analytics applied to the Humanities and the
Social Sciences, Dong Nguyen (Alan Turing Institute, UK) and Antal van den
Bosch (Meertens Institute and Radboud University, the Netherlands) introduce
current challenges and present working solutions. Folgert Karsdorp (Meertens
Institute, the Netherlands) then offers an afternoon introductory course on
using Python for the humanities and social sciences (bring your own laptop).
The tutorial program is concluded with an expert session featuring the three
lecturers who will answer specific questions of attendants about the most
suitable resources, technologies and methodology for their research. We will
be gathering these specific questions beforehand, so that we have an idea of
the number of interested people and issues to be discussed, and to be able to
think about our answers. If you wish to participate in the expert session,
please send a brief description of your questions (optionally with links to
papers with background ideas) to antal.van.den.bosch at meertens.knaw.nl before
June 2 2017.

Attendants:

The tutorial is primarily intended for PhD students, post-docs and younger
researchers working in the fields of Digital Humanities and Social Sciences.
No programming knowledge is required but basic experience in working with
digital text collections is a plus. For the hands-on session please bring your
own laptop.

Lecturers:

Antal van den Bosch, Meertens Institute and Radboud University, the
Netherlands
Folgert Karsdorp, Meertens Institute, the Netherlands
Dong Nguyen, Alan Turing Institute, UK

Programme:

09.00 - 10.30 Overview of methods and approaches in Digital Humanities
(lecture by Antal van den Bosch)
10.30 - 11.00 Coffee break
11.00 - 12.30 Overview of methods and approaches in Social Sciences (lecture
by Dong Nguyen)
12.30 - 13.30 Lunch
13.30 - 15.00 CLARIN tools and techniques for Digital Humanities  (hands-on
session by Folgert Karsdorp)
15.00 - 15.30 Coffee break
15.30 - 17.00 CLARIN tools and techniques for Social Sciences (hands-on
session by Folgert Karsdorp)
17.00 - 18.00 CLARIN Researcher Clinic (improve your research by discussing
your work with the tutorial lecturers)

Registration details:

There is a minimal registration fee of 50 EUR for the tutorial and
registration is limited to 30 participants. Please register as soon as
possible, registration will be handled on a first-come, first-served basis
until full.

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics

Tuition: 50 EUR

Registration: 21-May-2017 to 31-May-2017

Contact Person: Karolina Badzmierowska
                Email: karolina at clarin.eu

Apply by Email: antal.van.den.bosch at meertens.knaw.nl

Registration Instructions:
http://www.conference.ie/Conferences/menu.asp?menu=2294&Conference=501

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