Event organised by the Computational Humanities research group 5 June 2023 King’s College London, Bush House NE 2.01, 2 pm (in person only) Ellen Charlesworth (Durham University, United Kingdom), Museums online: defining and evaluating success Abstract During the COVID-19 national lockdowns, there was a significant increase in the amount of content UK museums uploaded online. By …
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Researchers from leading laboratories in cultural informatics come together to discuss the past, present, and future, of computational moving images.
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 …
To coincide with her new book More than a Glitch (2023, MIT Press), we’re excited to host Meredith Broussard for a talk on “Confronting Race, Gender and Ability Bias in Tech” on 10th May 2023. The talk is co-organised by the King’s College London Centre for Digital Culture, Digital Futures Institute, Department for Digital Humanities …
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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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 …
Organisers: Andrea Ballatore (KCL), Jamie Larkin (Chapman Uni.), with the support of Zhi Ye (Nina) (KCL) Registration for participants: if you want to attend, please register at this <form>. Programme ⏱️ When: Thursday 18 May 2023, 10:00 am – 5:30 pm (UK time) 📍 Where (hybrid): King’s College London, Bush House, (S) 1.01 (lecture theatre …
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We’re looking forward to hosting Roel Roscam Abbing (Malmö University / lurk.org) for a workshop on “Infrastructuring alternatives: Mastodon, the Fediverse and beyond”. The workshop will take place on 6th April, at King’s College London, Strand Campus. Further details are available below. Infrastructuring alternatives: Mastodon, the Fediverse and beyond After many years of inaction and, …
In January the Creative AI Lab at King’s College London/Serpentine (Professor Mercedes Bunz and curator Eva Jäger as Lab’s co-founders, Dr Daniel Chávez Heras, PhD student Alasdair Milne, Professor Joanna Zylinska) hosted a one-day symposium supported by the King’s Institute for Artificial Intelligence. Colleagues from disciplines across King’s were invited to discuss what the concept …
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The Department of Digital Humanities’ ‘Going Global’ seminar series is holding an online event as part of KCL’s annual Africa Week on ‘African languages and technological transformations: debating knowledge, rights and power on a digital continent’. Join Nanjala Nyabola (tech activist and researcher), Mohamed Abdimalik (data journalist); and Pete Chonka (lecturer in global digital cultures) …
