Register for a CSMC lecture

Thursday, 13 June 2024, 4:15 pm – 6:00 pm CEST

Warburgstraße 286 20354 Hamburg, room 0001, and online

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Using Machine Learning and Computing Techniques for the Study of Documents

Elisa Barney Smith (Luleå University of Technology)

There are many tools developed by engineers and scientists can be applied to help study documents. In her career Elisa has worked to apply image processing and machine learning (a more accurate word for the overused term “Artificial Intelligence”) to many problems in many fields.  Many are in projects where she works closely with people in the humanities to study documents. She will describe several of the projects she has worked on, highlight some of the techniques and how they have enabled scholars to extract information they want for their research in the Humanities. Some of the projects she will describe include: extracting information from WWI postcards, books read and marked by the 19th century American writer Herman Melville, and a 15th century edition of Historia Scholastica.

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