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REEEC New Directions Lecture: Andrew Janco (Haverford College), "What Natural Language Processing Reveals in a Corpus of 400,000 Russian Diaries"

Event Type: Lecture
Sponsor: Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center; School of Information Sciences
Location: 106 Main Library (1408 W. Gregory Dr., Urbana, IL 61801)
Date: Feb 27, 2020 3:30 pm
Contact: Stephanie Porter
E-Mail: chung88@illinois.edu
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Originating Calendar: Campus Humanities Calendar; Starting with a short introduction to recent innovations in natural language processing (NLP), Dr. Andrew Janco outlines what new methods in applied NLP have revealed in the records of Prozhito, a crowd-sourcing project that has transcribed more than 3,000 Russian-language diaries. What patterns appear when studying the collection at scale? What new questions can we ask? What answers does the collection bring to existing debates? Andrew Janco is a Digital Scholarship Librarian at Haverford College. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago. He recently completed his M.S. in Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.