On November 18, I gave a presentation at the Supercomputing 2008 conference in Austin, Texas, USA, and announced the winners of the National Endowment for the Humanities/Department of Energy Humanities High Performance Computing program. [read more...]

CaSTA (the Canadian Symposium on Text Analysis) 2008 will be held at University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, 16-18 October 2008. The conference theme is “New Directions in Text Analysis.” There will also be a pre-conference seminar on “Digitizing Early Material Culture”

Invited speakers on “New Directions in Text Analysis” are [read more...]

PhD Positions in Creative Design - Lancaster, UK, and Europe
Deadline: 15 September 2008
Source: Porto, 30 August 2008
Submitted by Luis Teixeira

Network Coordinator: Lancaster University, UK

PARTNERS
- Eindhoven University of Technology in The Netherlands
- Copenhagen Business School in Denmark
- University of Milan in Italy
- The Portuguese Catholic University in Portugal [read more...]

The Research Centre of Science and Technology in the Arts of the Portuguese Catholic University (UCP-CITAR), in Porto, Portugal, seeks two candidates with Ph.D. in one of following fields: Visual Arts, Electronic Arts and Multimedia, Design Studies, Interactive/Multimedia Design or in similar areas. [read more...]

TADA (the Text Analysis Developers' Alliance) announces a new text analysis event: a multi-category "best ideas" type competition intended to stimulate innovation in text analysis and encourage connections between users and developers. There is a prize to be won - and a tight deadline: 30th June 2008.

Competition Categories

Best New Tool [read more...]

* When: Saturday 21st June 2008, 11am - 5pm
* Where: Trampoline Systems, 8-15 Dereham Place, London, EC2A 3HJ
* Map: http://tinyurl.com/58br3u
* Wiki: http://okfn.org/wiki/OpenVisualisation/Workshop [read more...]

From the NEH: "The NEH's Office of Digital Humanities (ODH) recently launched a Humanities High Performance Computing (HHPC) initiative. As part of this initiative we're offering several grant programs and other opportunities to provide time on the U.S. Department of Energy's high performance computers, as well as grant money and training. [read more...]

The Center for History and New Media at George Mason University will undertake a major two-year study of the potential of text-mining tools for historical (and by extension, humanities) scholarship. Read more about this exciting project on Dan Cohen's blog. [read more...]

CICLing-2008, the 9th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics, will take place at the University of Haifa on February 17-23, 2008. More details are available here:
http://www.cicling.org/2008/

The deadline for early registration is December 25th. Register here:
https://www.cri.haifa.ac.il/cicling2008/

Paul Rayson, the developer of Wmatrix, and I are currently discussing corpus linguistics, text mining tools, their application in the field of history and tools development - you are invited to have a look at the discussion or join us in the new Wmatrix user group forum:

http://www.arts-humanities.net/wmatrix/forum/interview_paul_...

This is an audio recording of the presentation 'Love - a familiar or a devil? [read more...]

This is an audio recording of the presentation '"The question is, how cruel is it?" Keywords in Debates on Fox Hunting in the British House of Commons' given by Paul Baker, University of Lancaster, UK, at the Methods Network expert seminar on linguistics: Word Frequency and Keyword Extraction (Lancaster University, 8 Sep 20 [read more...]

This is an audio recording of the presentation 'Issues for Historical Corpora: First Catch Your Word' given by Christian Kay, University of Glasgow, Scotland, at the Methods Network expert seminar on linguistics: Word Frequency and Keyword Extraction (Lancaster University, 8 Sep 2005).

This is an audio recording of the presentation 'Word Frequency, Statistical Stylistics, and Authorship Attribution' given by David Hoover, New York University, USA, at the Methods Network expert seminar on linguistics: Word Frequency and Keyword Extraction (Lancaster University, 8 Sep 2005).

This is an audio recording of the presentation 'Word Frequency: Use or Misuse' given by John Kirk, Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland, at the Methods Network expert seminar on linguistics: Word Frequency and Keyword Extraction (Lancaster University, 8 Sep 2005).

Invited speakers (alphabetical order):

Harald Baayen, University of Alberta (Canada)
Doug Biber, Northern Arizona University (United States)
Laurel Brinton, University of British Columbia (Canada)
Susan Hunston, University of Birmingham (UK)
Tony McEnery, Lancaster University (UK)

Place: Brigham Young University. Provo, Utah, USA
Website: http://corpus.byu.edu/aacl2008

The scholar interpreting an ancient documentary text has a broad range of relevant electronic tools available; but the interaction is largely in one direction and the experience is fragmented by the dispersal of the electronic resources. [read more...]

This talk explores what this data can do for problems in language understanding, translation, information extraction, and inference, and extrapolates to what more data may bring in the future. [read more...]

Multiple Text Datasets
Corpora
Corpus linguistics
Text Mining
Textual Analysis
Data Mining [read more...]

Two weeks ago I was in Glasgow, discussing Text Mining for Historians. The workshop started with a couple of presentations that gave a more general introduction into the field, describing specific projects, tools or concepts such as corpus linguistics. [read more...]

Attached are handouts and presentations given at the workshop Text Mining for Historians. [read more...]

• Mark Greengrass: "Data Extraction Across Multiple Text Datasets for Arts and Humanities Research"
• Dawn Archer: "Keywords and key domains ... in the Trial of the "The Rugeley Poisoner" (William Palmer)"

Digital Classicist/ICS Work in Progress Seminar, Summer 2007 - Melissa Terras (University College London) [read more...]