Birkbeck Knowledge Lab Seminar: Natural Language Processing for Applications in Social Science and Humanities
When:
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Venue:
Online
Interest in applying computational tools to questions in the social sciences and humanities has grown steadily in recent years. New research groups and workshops in overlapping subfields such as digital humanities, computational humanities, and computational social science have emerged, showcasing the interdisciplinary opportunities and methodological challenges that arise in these areas. I will begin this talk by giving a general overview of these subfields, with particular attention to applications of natural language processing (NLP), including my own core research which aims to produce interpretable models and visualisations of lexical semantics. Then, I will present work in progress from a collaborative project that uses NLP to discover and highlight patterns in a corpus of 17th Century French pharmaceutical recipe books.
Contact name:
George Magoulas