King’s College London have been awarded £5m in funding from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) to support a collaborative project led by Dr Kate Devlin from the Department of Digital Humanities and involving Dr Caitlin Bentley and Professor Sana Khareghani (Department of Informatics), and Professor Prokar Dasgupta (Peter Gorer Department of Immunobiology and the Department …
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DDH researchers at King’s Festival of Artificial Intelligence
DDH researchers are contributing to several public talks and events as part of the The King’s Festival of Artificial Intelligence (Bringing the Human to the Artificial, King’s Institute for Artificial Intelligence). The festival brings together speakers, exhibits, performances, demos, and screenings in an exciting programme of events from 24th-28th May 2023. The events are open …
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King’s Public Lecture in Digital Humanities: Shannon Mattern on “Modeling Doubt, Coding Humility: A Speculative Syllabus”
Last night we hosted Shannon Mattern for a talk on “Modeling Doubt, Coding Humility: A Speculative Syllabus”, as part of a new series of King’s Public Lectures in Digital Humanities. Here’s the video of the livestream. Modeling Doubt, Coding Humility: A Speculative Syllabus At a time of increasing artificial intelligence and proliferating conspiracy, faith in ubiquitous data …
DDH researchers contribute to “AI: Who’s Looking After Me?” exhibition and events at Science Gallery London
Department of Digital Humanities researchers Mark Coté and Kate Devlin have contributed to a new programme of public activities with Science Gallery London. AI: Who’s Looking After Me?, (presented in collaboration with FutureEverything) is a free exhibition and public events programme, running from 21 June 2023 to 20 January 2024. AI: Who’s Looking After Me?’ …
Seminar: placing Greek inscriptions with machine learning • 23 May 2023
Event organised by the Computational Humanities research group 23 May 2023 3pm BST (remote) Thea Sommerschield (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy), Restoring, dating and placing Greek inscriptions with machine learning: the Ithaca project Abstract Ithaca is the first deep neural network for the textual restoration, geographical attribution and chronological attribution of ancient Greek inscriptions. …
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Seminar: Latin BERT for Word Sense Disambiguation • 16 May 2023
Event organised by the Computational Humanities research group 16 May 2023 3pm BST (remote) Piroska Lendvai and Claudia Wick (Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Germany), Finetuning Latin BERT for Word Sense Disambiguation on the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae Abstract The Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL) is a comprehensive monolingual dictionary that records contextualized meanings and usages of …
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Seminar: Historical Language Models and their application to Word Sense Disambiguation • 9 May 2023 3pm
Event organised by the Computational Humanities research group 9 May 2023 3pm BST (remote) Enrique Manjavacas (Leiden University, The Netherlands), Historical Language Models and their application to Word Sense Disambiguation Abstract Large Language Models (LLMs) have become the cornerstone of current methods in Computational Linguistics. As the Humanities look towards computational methods in order to …
Ten new posts in the Department of Digital Humanities
We are delighted to be announcing ten new permanent academic positions in the Department of Digital Humanities. As many in the community know, DDH has expanded a great deal in the last fifteen years. In this time “the digital”, both in and as related to the humanities, has changed beyond all recognition. As well as …
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DDH Research Associate Rachel Pistol on Channel 5’s “No Place Like Home”
Dr. Rachel Pistol, Research Associate at the Department of Digital Humanities and UK National Coordinator of the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) has contributed to the latest series of Channel 5’s “No Place Like Home”. In the episode, Rachel discusses Second World War internment camp, Warth Mills, in Bury, as Journalist and News Broadcaster Victoria …
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Shannon Mattern: “Modeling Doubt, Coding Humility: A Speculative Syllabus”
We’re pleased to announce that we’ll be hosting Shannon Mattern talk on “Modeling Doubt, Coding Humility: A Speculative Syllabus” on Thursday 11th May 2023, as part of a series of King’s Public Lectures in Digital Humanities. Further details are copied below and you can register here. Modeling Doubt, Coding Humility: A Speculative Syllabus At a …
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