AI across the Generations
I gave a talk today with Paul Yachnin to the McGill Community for Lifelong Learning on “Conscientious AI.” The idea for the event was to give the audience some understanding of how machine learning...
View Article1000 Words
Lab member Fedor Karmanov has created a beautiful new project that combines machine vision, machine learning, and poetry. It is called “1,000 Words,” and takes the self-portraits of Van Gogh and...
View ArticleDetecting footnotes in 32 million pages of ECCO
I’m very proud to be part of the collaborative project that produced this new article in the Journal of Cultural Analytics where we outline the process we used to visually detect footnotes in 32...
View ArticleCan We Be Wrong?
I have a new book out. It’s called “Can We Be Wrong? The Problem of Textual Evidence in a Time of Data.” The goal of the book is to change the terms of debate surrounding the place of computational...
View ArticleMeasuring Bias in Literary Classification
I have a new paper out with former student Sunyam Bagga for the latest proceedings of the Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and...
View ArticleDetecting narrativity across long time scales
Our lab has a new article out that will be appearing in the Computational Humanities Research Conference Proceedings (CHR 2021). In this project, we develop computational methods for measuring the...
View ArticleMachine Learning and Literary Translation
Very excited to announce a new paper on “the predictability of literary translation” as part of the NLP4DH workshop proceedings. Translation plays an important role in the international circulation of...
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