Speaker: Prof. Christian Henriot, Aix-Marseille University

Time: 10:00-12:00 a.m., January 9, 2024, GMT+8

Venue: Jingchunyuan #79, PKU

Abstract: 

Since the mid-1990s much has been written about digital history and how the Internet and the dematerialization of historical sources are transforming the ways in which historians can muster their materials. The major shift, however, occurred when historical sources became available in full text format. This finally opened the way to approaches and methods based on text analysis and natural language processing, though with a particular challenge due to the very nature of historical sources. The ENP-China project has been at the forefront of developing a set of resources — text database, spatial database, and HistText — that break through the limits of historical investigation on modern China.

Source: Institute for Artificial Intelligence, PKU