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Auflistung nach Schlagwort "Digital Humanities"

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  • Konferenzbeitrag
    AMAP: A Visual Programming Language Based System to Support Document Image Analysis
    (Mensch und Computer 2019 - Tagungsband, 2019) Rajan, Vinodh; Stiehl, H. Siegfried
    Recently, Visual Programming Languages (VPLs) have been applied to a wide variety of domains ranging, usually for users lacking traditional programming skills. However, there have not been yet any concrete attempts to harness VPLs in the domain of Document Image Analysis (DIA), an applied-research field that tends to mainly cater to the needs of non-programmers. In this context, we introduce AMAP, a VPL-based system to empower non-programming users of DIA methods. We expound the motivation behind the system and briefly outline its design and development along with the architecture. We focus on showcasing several use cases that will demonstrate the system's ability to cope with different DIA scenarios.
  • Workshopbeitrag
    Corpus2Wiki: A MediaWiki based Annotation & Visualisation Tool for the Digital Humanities
    (INF-DH-2018, 2018) Rutherford, Eleanor; Hemati, Wahed; Mehler, Alexander
    In this paper, we present WikiExporter, a tool which automatically creates a MediaWiki site for a given corpus of texts. The texts, along with automatically generated annotations and visualisations associated with them, are displayed on this MediaWiki site, locally hosted on the users’ own machine. Several different software components are used to this end - Docker for ease and consistency of deployment, MediaWiki for the core engine, TextImager Client for the generation of annotations and a number of existing, and as well as extended, MediaWiki extensions for the visualisations. This tool was specifically designed for use within the interdisciplinary field of the Digital Humanities, as it provides a visual analysis and representation of texts via a tool which require no programming or advanced computational knowledge and uses an interface already well-known within the Digital Humanities Community, namely MediaWiki.
  • Textdokument
    The Dissimilar in the Similar. An Attribute-guided Approach to the Subject-specific Classification of Art-historical Objects
    (INFORMATIK 2020, 2021) Schneider, Stefanie; Springstein, Matthias; Rahnama, Javad; Hüllermeier, Eyke; Ewerth, Ralph; Kohle, Hubertus
    Due to the increasingly unmanageable number of art-historical inventories made available in digital form, methods that computationally arrange larger amounts of objects are becoming more important. The category of similarity, which is fundamental in all areas of art-historical description, gains new relevance in this context. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to the subject-specific classification of art-historical objects that utilizes expert-based attributes, i.e., significant figurative motifs. We evaluate our procedure on a concrete use case, representations of saints in the visual arts. A representative data set of saints images is collected and a semi-supervised learning technique applied to enrich the data set with neural style transfer as well as to improve the joint training of saints and their attributes. We show that this technique outperforms other approaches.
  • Konferenzbeitrag
    Establishing semantic research graphs in humanities’ research practice
    (INFORMATIK 2019: 50 Jahre Gesellschaft für Informatik – Informatik für Gesellschaft (Workshop-Beiträge), 2019) Hocker, Julian; Veja, Cornelia; Schindler, Christoph; Rittberger, Marc
    This paper presents approaches and challenges to developing research software for qualitative humanities and social sciences research. While these methods so far lack a digital enhancement, we realized a range of research environments based on semantic graph technologies in research practice. In order to understand the researchers’ needs and take the existing research practice seriously, a participatory and agile design approach was used by which several researchers were involved in realizing concrete research projects. A user-centered agile approach with fast prototyping was included. To materialize the needed interaction at an early stage of the research life cycle, this was accompanied by trainings, workshops, and joint paper publications in the different research communities.
  • Zeitschriftenartikel
    From giant despair to a new heaven: The early years of automatic collation
    (it - Information Technology: Vol. 62, No. 2, 2020) Nury, Elisa; Spadini, Elena
    This article presents a commented history of automatic collation, from the 1940s until the end of the twentieth century. We look at how the collation was progressively mechanized and automatized with algorithms, and how the issues raised throughout this period carry on into today’s scholarship. In particular, we examine the inner workings of early collation algorithms and their different steps in relation to the formalization of the Gothenburg Model. The scholars working with automatic collation also offer fascinating insights to study the collaborations between Humanists and Computer Scientists, and the reception of computers by philologists.
  • Konferenzbeitrag
    Integration of Services for Software Development in DH: A Case Study of Image Classification using Convolutional Neural Networks
    (INFORMATIK 2019: 50 Jahre Gesellschaft für Informatik – Informatik für Gesellschaft (Workshop-Beiträge), 2019) Niebling, Florian; Haas, Michael; Blessing, Andre´
    This paper presents a case study of integrating RESTful web services for software development in the Digital Humanities. Journalists today are able to utilize huge amounts of image data to illustrate their articles. To provide easy access, image databases need to be structured and photographic documents stored within need to be categorized. Here, methods based on Deep Learning have recently had a significant impact on image categorization. We highlight the potentials of incorporating machine learning with different models for named-entity recognition in image captions, to facilitate classification of images according to standard IPTC media topics. We finally discuss the results of our project employing service-oriented architectures integrating specialized components to simplify the creation of DH applications.
  • Zeitschriftenartikel
    Intertextuality and Digital Humanities
    (it - Information Technology: Vol. 62, No. 2, 2020) Schubert, Charlotte
    Proceeding from the debate on intertextuality, some considerations are presented here for Literary and Historical Studies that suggest a theory-driven approach applying algorithm-based procedures. It will be shown that methodical tensions between qualitative and quantitative approaches can be solved simultaneously in this way. On this basis, the approach combines intertextuality theory with an algorithm-based procedure (here a search based on Word Mover’s Distance).
  • Textdokument
    Introducing NoXML for the Digital Humanities
    (INFORMATIK 2017, 2017) Efer, Thomas
    This paper argues, that a pluralism of data models is needed in the practice of the Digital Humanities. Relevant technology for different levels of model expressiveness should be made available in the form of readily usable tools and infrastructure, together with generic and discipline-specific materials that allow an informed choice of a fitting data model for specific use cases. While it is seen as a vital (and quite viable) task to ensure the interoperability between different DH projects, community-made data encoding schemas, source collections and analysis tools, there is no striking reason to restrain all aspects of those efforts to the traditional XML ecosystem. Therefore a statement is made to venture into employing novel approaches and technologies (subsumed as NoXML) that augment the current tooling by providing missing modeling constructs.
  • Konferenzbeitrag
    Is it about Human(itie)s? Experiences from Software Projects across three Faculties
    (INFORMATIK 2019: 50 Jahre Gesellschaft für Informatik – Informatik für Gesellschaft (Workshop-Beiträge), 2019) Peukert, Hagen
    Considering the experience with software development in research projects in three different faculties, it is argued here that the issue of underspecification and finding out what is really wanted is not restricted to the Humanities. Rather, it occurs in Science and Social Science seemingly at the same ratio. However, in absence of representational data, statements at which exact shares the phenomenon really occurs, lead up the garden path. Hence, the question is raised whether the focus of software development in the Humanities should shift to human per se describing the fact that underspecification is a human trait of complex planning and problem solving behavior, but independent from the faculty’s epistemology. And possibly it comes to the fore in science more bluntly and it is particularly apparent in the Humanities, i.e. less blended. In fact, any specific account of software development in the Humanities is misleading because the focus on the Humanities blends the hermeneutics inherent in scientific work in general.
  • Workshopbeitrag
    Iterative Bearbeitung von Forschungsfragen
    (INF-DH-2018, 2018) Freybe, Konstantin; Hoffman, Tracy
    m Rückgriff auf Erfahrungen aus der Forschungspraxis unseres Teams stellen wir den Aushandlungscharakter interdisziplinärer Zusammenarbeit heraus. Deshalb schenken wir der Kommunikationsstruktur im Projekt besondere Aufmerksamkeit, denn die Zirkulation von Wissen im Team und das Erarbeiten eines wechselseitigen Verständnisses unter den Forschenden hängen stark davon ab. Damit wird das Gewicht von Forschungsergebnissen auf die Prozesse verlagert.