Kick off event of the project “Digital Text Scholarship”: Prof Maciej Eder’s public lecture on April 22

The Centre of Digital Humanities at the Institute of Estonian and General Linguistics invites you to the kick off event of the project "Digital Text Scholarship" (DigiTS), which launched in March. The event will take place on 22 April at 16:00 at the White Hall of University of Tartu Museum. The keynote speaker of the event is Maciej Eder, a visiting professor of digital humanities at the University of Tartu, who will give a presentation titled "Computational Stylistics: From Authorship Attribution to Assessing Language Change."

At the event, Professor Liina Lindström, the Head of the Institute of Estonian and General Linguistics, will talk about the development of digital humanities at the University of Tartu, and Joshua Wilbur, lecturer in digital linguistics, will provide an overview of the new project. The main speaker of the event will be Professor Maciej Eder, who joined the Centre of Digital Humanities at the University of Tartu when the project launched in March. Professor Eder is also working as Director of the Institute of Polish Language at the Polish Academy of Sciences and as a Professor of Literature at the Pedagogical University of Kraków. Professor Eder is an experienced expert in the field of text analysis, combining literary studies with quantitative linguistics and computational methods, especially machine learning techniques (e.g., artificial neural networks and large language models). Under Eder’s leadership, a new interdisciplinary research team with a focus of text-based data will be established in Tartu.

In his lecture on April 22nd, Professor Eder will focus on computer-assisted text analysis, understood as measuring textual similarities by statistical techniques. The talk will start with a concise introduction to authorship attribution, followed by a discussion of how attribution techniques can be extended to assess stylistic variation in (large) collections of texts.

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