The Computers in the Humanities Users Group and the Brown University Library present:
\nInfrastructure for Digital Humanities: Challenges for Computational Linguistics
\nin Mining Million Book Collections<\/p>\n
David Smith
\nDepartment of Computer Science
\nUniversity of Massachusetts, Amherst<\/p>\n
2:00 PM Tuesday, March 15
\nBopp Room, John Hay Library<\/p>\n
Concerted scanning projects are making significant amounts of data —
\nhistorical data in particular — increasingly available to readers and
\nresearchers in many disciplines. To make this data useful, researchers
\nat UMass Amherst are working on improving OCR, language modeling,
\nmultiple-version alignment, syntactic analysis, information
\nextraction, and information retrieval. I will focus in particular on
\ninferring the relational structure latent in books: which books or
\npassages quote, translate, paraphrase, and cite each other? This
\nresearch requires improvements in modeling translation and other forms
\nof similarity, as well as improvements in efficiently comparing large
\nnumbers of passages.<\/p>\n
David Smith is a Research Assistant Professor in the Computer Science
\nDepartment at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where he is
\naffiliated with the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval. He
\nholds a Ph.D. in computer science from Johns Hopkins and an A.B. in
\nclassics from Harvard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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