Linguistics

event: THATCamp London

THATCamp is a user-generated “unconference” on digital humanities developed by the Center for History and New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University. This year, for the first time, a THATCamp will occur at the same time and same place as the DH conference — the world’s premere conference on the Digital Humanities, and we expect that having both together will spark exciting new ideas!

You need to apply to take part in the THATCamp. Find out more about it at http://thatcamplondon.org/.

Tags: 
digital humanities
Unconference
Discipline: 
Archaeology
Classics and Ancient History
Dance Studies
Drama and Theatre Studies
English Language and Literature
Modern Languages
History
Law
Librarianship, Information & Museum Studies
Linguistics
Media
Music
Philosophy
Theology, Divinity and Religious Studies
Architecture: History, Theory & Practice
Community Arts (including Art and Health)
Cultural Policy, Arts management and the creative industries
Visual Arts
Design
By John Bradley at Wed, 17/03/2010 - 15:21

tool: GeoParser

Purpose: 

GeoParser is a text analysis tool that may be used to identify, tag and (where appropriate) disambiguate references to geographic location in a text resource. The tool uses Natural Language Processing to analyse the composition of a resource and identifying words that match its geographic database. The approach is useful for processing ambiguous references, such as names that may have one of several locations (e.g. Belfast in Ireland, New Zealand and Canada) and distinguishing names that may be confused with other action (e.g. Reading in Berkshire and reading as an activity).

Features: 

• Analyse text stored in structured, semi-structured and unstructured text formats
• Creates information that may be processed and used by a global gazetteer

A&H use case 1 description: 
The Embedded GeoCrossWalk project use the GeoParser to extracts the place names found in proceedings of the Stormont Assembly.
Publisher: 
University of Edinburgh School of Informatics - Language Technology Group
Creator: 
University of Edinburgh School of Informatics - Language Technology Group
Specifications: 
eXtensible Markup Language (XML)
HyperText Markup Language (HTML)
plain text
metadata records
Data capture: 
Text recognition
Communication and collaboration: 
Textual interaction (asynchronous)
Software/programming languages used: 
GeoParser
Discipline: 
English Language and Literature
Modern Languages
Linguistics
Data analysis: 
Content analysis
Data mining
Parsing
Searching and querying
Spatial data analysis
Text mining
Data structuring and enhancement: 
Cataloguing and indexing
Geo-referencing and projection
Text encoding - referential
Tags: 
Parsing
Geoparser
Strategy and project management: 
Documentation
Alternate tool(s): 

Metacarta’s GeoTagger, Digital Reasoning’s GeoLocator, Lockheed Martin’s AeroText, and SRA’s NetOwl

Practice-led research: 
Texture design and mapping
Licence: 
University of Edinburgh fee-free use (no modifications)
Platform: 
All major operating systems
lifecycleStage: 
analysis
publishing
By natalie.hutchinson at Fri, 12/03/2010 - 10:44

project: Cultures of the Lusophone Black Atlantic (CLBA )

Grant Holder: Professor David Treece
An investigation of the cultural expressions of, and responses to, the history of the black diaspora within the Lusophone Atlantic triangle; that is, the transnational movements of people and traditions, the dialogues and exchanges that have occurred between the societies of Portugal, Africa and Brazil from the beginning of the slave trade until the present day. [read more]

project: Pliny: A note manager

Grant Holder:
The Pliny project aims to promote some thinking that looks broadly at the provision of tools to support scholarship. One of its products is a piece of free software, also called Pliny, which facilitates note-taking and annotation, allowing its user to integrate these initial notes into a representation of an evolving personal interpretation. [read more]

project: arts-humanities.net

Grant Holder: SheilaAnderson
arts-humanities.net is an online hub for research and teaching in the digital arts and humanities. It enables members to locate information, promote their research and discuss ideas. [read more]

project: Welsh Journals Online

Grant Holder:
Digitisation and publication on the web of 400,000 pages of academic, literary and popular journals in English and Welsh. [read more]

project: Greek Bible in Byzantine Judaism (GBBJ )

Grant Holder: Professor Nicholas de Lange
The project's mandate is to gather evidence for the use of Greek Bible translations by Jews in the Middle Ages, to edit and publish these remains, to subject them to linguistic analysis, and to compare them with other Greek biblical texts, earlier, contemporary and later. the corpus developed by the project comprises the exact remains of Jewish Greek Bible versions, edited from manuscripts. [read more]

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