Digital Humanities meet Artificial Intelligence

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English

This intensive training will cover theoretical and numerical topics, and applications at the intersection between the fields of Digital Humanities and Artificial Intelligence. The structure of the course will interplay theoretical topics and practical sessions with computer labs and group projects.

The course meets from 9h to 17h30 during the PSL week. In general, the morning sessions are devoted to lectures and in the afternoons students will work in small groups toward a case study of practical importance. Lecture topics may include:
Lecture Topics will include:
Introduction to Digital Humanities;
Computer Vision for the Humanities;
NLP for the Humanities;
Introduction to Stylometry;
Web development for AI;
DH/AI tools for History of Astronomy;
Python programming for AI;
Digital Sources and Tools for the Humanities;

Sample group projects from previous PSL Weeks:
Computational analysis of George Viau?s art collection;
Exploring the Twittersphere of the French presidential election;
Analysing medieval astronomical diagrams;
A Computational Literary History of Gender;
Automatic discovery of chronologic and geographic circulation of artistic styles;
Digital workflow from text retrieval to text alignment on a medieval French text

Assessment based on attendance and final presentation of the group project.

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