Using machine learning, we analysed meaning and feeling in different translations of an ancient Hindu holy text.
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Big data analysis has unveiled startling links between seemingly unrelated things, such as how a person’s physical elevation above sea level might influence their personality.
The researchers used machine learning to study the 2,000-year-old document.
Dickens had some clever little narrative tricks, which become clear when his work is analysed as a single data set.
The humanities can supply wisdom to guide our galloping technological progress.
For centuries, readers have written in the margins of their books to indicate admiration, disagreement or inspiration. Plath was no different.
Some AI technologies aren’t advanced enough to provide useful insights, but simpler tools can yield new opportunities to explore the humanities.
The Slave Societies Digital Archive documents the lives of approximately 6 million free and enslaved Africans in the Americas.
In a time when women were expected to be silent, no topic was off limits for Pulter, who penned verses about politics, science and loss. Her manuscript was just published in a free digital archive.
The internet has not only changed the kinds of answers historical study can provide, but also what questions can be asked.
The writing process is different whether your instrument is a fountain pen, a crayon, a typewriter or a computer. What fingerprints does the technology leave on the product?
The backlash against “big data” studies is well underway. And no more so than in the area of humanities and creative arts research. If I had a dollar for every person who has told me over the past year…
3D technologies have been around for years – but it’s only now that 3D scanning and printing devices have become both accessible and affordable for many users. The result? New uses are blossoming in every…
What place do e-readers – and in particular ebooks – hold in the reading behaviour of Australia’s 10 million public library borrowers? There are some 181 million items loaned every year by the nation’s…
Ever get lost in a book? A new online database of crowd-sourced information called Placing Literature allows readers to explore the settings they are reading about through an interactive map. To me, this…
Last month a major restructure at the National Film and Sound Archive (NFSA) in Canberra was announced, including a tranche of job cuts and the closure of the Arc cinema. Many in the film community were…
Today we eagerly embrace new technology for fear of being left behind. A toddler with an iPad in hand is a welcome sign of a child learning to succeed in a digital world. Remainders of the pre-digital…
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PhD Candidate, The University of Melbourne
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President of the Australian Library and Information Association and Lecturer, Charles Sturt University
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Associate Professor. Associate Director of the Creative Lab., Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of English, University of Maryland
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Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
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Director, Education Studio, Macquarie University
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Canada 150 Research Chair in Gender and Cultural Informatics, University of Alberta
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Professor of History, Vanderbilt University
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PhD in Early Modern Literature, University of California, Davis
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Associate Professor in Literary Studies, Monash University
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Professor of Corpus Linguistics, University of Birmingham
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Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
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Research Fellow in Digital Theology, Director of CODEC Research Centre, Durham University