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CUHK Arts "From Corpora to Semantic Spaces: Word Meaning Change in Historical Texts" by Dr. Barbara McGillivray
2024年4月30日 - 2024年5月2日
3:00-4:30pm
Digital Scholarship Lab, University Library
Dr. Barbara McGillivray
Dr. Barbara McGillivray
Lecturer in Digital Humanities and Cultural Computation, King’s College London
Barbara is a digital humanist and computational linguist. Her research interests lie at the intersection between computational and quantitative methods and research questions in the Humanities. She is particularly interested in the analysis of semantic change via quantitative and computational methods, computational models of word meaning, time-aware natural language processing, and computational lexicography.
#1 Seminar | 30 April 2024 (Tue)
“From Corpora to Semantic Spaces: how computational methods can help us uncover word meaning change in historical texts”
Date: 30 April 2024 (Tue)
Time: 3:00-4:30pm
Venue: Digital Scholarship Lab, University Library
Speaker: Dr. Barbara McGillivray
This seminar will explore computational methods for the analysis of semantic change in texts. Dr McGillivray will present her insights into the application of computational tools to investigate shifts in word meanings over time, drawing on her experience of working on contemporary texts and 19th-century English texts. This interdisciplinary approach bridges computational linguistics with digital humanities scholarship, offering novel perspectives on language evolution and cultural transformations through quantitative analysis.
#2 Workshop | 2 May 2024 (Thu)
“From Corpora to Semantic Spaces: some practical examples of corpus analysis and computational processing to study word meaning change in historical texts”
Date: 2 May 2024 (Tue)
Time: 3:00-4:30pm
Venue: Digital Scholarship Lab, University Library
Speaker: Dr. Barbara McGillivray
The aim of this workshop is to support students and researchers interested in exploring the changing nature of the vocabulary in historical texts at scale, and to reflect critically on the limitations of these computational analyses. The workshop will cover the topics of corpus building and text processing. Dr. McGillivray will introduce the basic concepts of semantic spaces and distributional semantics and walk through some simple code for training computational methods for representing word meaning (word embeddings) from 19th-century English corpora, evaluating them, and using them in digital humanities research with reference to the corpus of Darwin’s letters from the Darwin Project (https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/).
