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Visualizing History’s Fragments with Ottoman Algerian Registers

University of Virginia VA, United States

Through close reading, structured notes, and developing a custom, context-specific classification schema, Dr. Ashley Sanders has reconstructed data sets on the governors of Ottoman Algeria (1518-1837) for prosopographical study. This reconstruction aims to avoid recreating imperial ontologies and instead aims to describe these men and women with categories that they themselves would have likely employed.

Identifying Latent Textual Bias: Making a case for traditional NLP tasks in the era of AI

Institute of Historical Research Senate House, Malet Street, London, United Kingdom

Invited talk at the UK Institute of Historical Research - Digital History Seminar. Bias detection remains an area of interest for digital humanists, computational linguists, and information studies scholars, who point to biases inherent in our algorithms, software, tools, and platforms, but we are only just beginning to examine how computational methods could be used […]

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