Program
All paper presentations, poster sessions and software demos take place in Ida Noyes, 1212 East 59th Street.
Keynote Speakers
Paper Presentations
Poster Sessions and Software Demos
Keynote Speakers
Gregory Crane
“The American Scholar: An Oxymoron in the Digital Age?”
Gregory Crane has been engaged since 1985 in planning and development of the Perseus Project, which he directs as the Editor-in-Chief. Besides supervising the Perseus Project as a whole, he has been primarily responsible for the development of the morphological analysis system which provides many of the links within the Perseus database.
Ben Shneiderman
“Creativity Support Tools: A Grand Challenge for Humanities Computing”
Ben Shneiderman is Professor in the Department of Computer Science, founding Director (1983-2000) of the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory, and Member of the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies and the Institute for Systems Research, all at the University of Maryland. He is a leading expert in human-computer interaction and information visualization and has published extensively in these and related fields.
John Unsworth
“All the king’s horses, all the king’s men, couldn’t do text-mining across the Big Ten”
John Unsworth is Dean of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science and Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Prior to that, he was on the faculty at the University of Virginia where he also led the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities. He has published widely in the field of Digital Humanities and was the recipient last year of the Lyman Award for scholarship in technology and humanities.
Paper Presentations
Shlomo Argamon
Sobhan Hota
Rebecca Chung
Illinois Institute of Technology
Gender in Shakespeare: Automatic Stylistics & Gender Character Classification Using Syntactic, Lexical and Lemma Features
David Bearman
Archives & Museum Informatics
Susan Chun
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Genre and Formal Structures in Typography: A Framework for Automatic Scholarly Markup of Books from Text Page Images
Tanya Clement
Dickinson Electronic Archives; English Literature and Digital Studies, University of Maryland
What to do, what to do, what to do with 3182 paragraphs: the nora project and repetition in Gertrude Stein’s “The Making of Americans”
Jason Darwin
New Zealand Electronic Text Centre
Repurposing the past for the future: Online presentation of a collection of texts using a Topic Map and an Authority File
Mark Kornbluh
Department of History, Michigan State University
William F. Punch
Computer Science and Engineering, Michigan State University
Wayne Dyksen
Computer Science, Michigan State University
H-Net and Scholarly Discourse in the Digital Age: A New Approach to Data Mining Email Discussion Lists
Ian Lancashire
University of Toronto
Online Historical Lexical-encyclopedic Entries and Semantic Indexing
George Legrady
University of California Santa Barbara
From Data to its Organizing Structure
Brad Pasanek
Annenberg Center for Communication, USC
D. Sculley
Department of Computer Science, Tufts University
Mining Millions of Metaphors
Sravana Reddy
Department of Computer Science, The University of Chicago
Gregory Crane
The Perseus Project, Tufts University
A Document Recognition System for Early Modern Latin
William A. Tozier
Industrial & Operations Engineering, University of Michigan
Juliet Sutherland
Distributed Proofreaders Foundation
Distributed Proofreaders: Online Collaborative Production of Accurate Digitized Texts
Karin Verspoor
Ed MacKerrow
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Antonio Sanfilippo
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Mark Elmore
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Deploying Natural Language Processing for Social Science Analysis
Dr. David Woolner
History, Marist College
Nancy Ide
Computer Science, Vassar College
Navigating Events and Attitudes in Historical Documents:”The Pearl Harbor Files”
Poster Sessions and Software Demos
Barbara Ashbrook
National Endowment for the Humanities
NEH Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants Program
Hugh Cayless
Lulu; CourseForge
The Next Million: Open Source Book Creation with CourseForge
Dan Cohen
Department of History and Art History; Center for History and New Media, George Mason University
Extending Zotero to Support the Digital Humanities
Drew van de Creek
Northern Illinois University Libraries
Digital Tools and the Public Humanities
Marie-Luce Demonet
Toshinori Uetani
Centre d’Études Supérieures de la Renaissance
Automation tools for digitized Renaissance documents
AnHai Doan
Miron Livny
Xiaojin Zhu
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Building Adoptable Cyberinfrastructure: the Wisconsin Approach
Eric Elshtain
The University of Chicago
Jon Trowbridge
What do you do with a million book? You make poetry out of them.
Kurt E. Fendt
Foreign Languages and Literatures; Comparative Media Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Christopher York
Yale University
Rich facets, multiple views: Towards a new paradigm of resource representation
Nicole B. Hansen
Egyptology, University of Chicago; Glyphdoctors
How to Reach a Million Students: Teaching Egyptology Online
Xiao Hu
J. Stephen Downie
Jin Ha Lee
Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Stylistic Analysis on Reviews of Humanities Objects
W.N. Martin
Computer Science; Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH), University of Virginia
Progressions: Space, Time and Text
Orion Buckminster Montoya — cancelled
Oxford University Press
The Corpus in Lexicography: Current Developments & Future Needs
Hans-Christian Schmitz
Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main
What to Do with 23 Books: The Electronic Edition of Immanuel Kant’s Complete Works
Neil Smalheiser
Dept. of Psychiatry and Psychiatric Institute MC912, University of Illinois-Chicago
Anne O’Tate: User-Driven Summarization and Drill-Down of PubMed Query Results
Cora Angier Sowa
The Minerva System for Studying Literary Texts
Ray Siemens
Alastair McColl
Electronic Textual Cultures Lab, University of Victoria
Learning Curves and Tempered Results: Toward a Renaissance English Knowledgebase
Bulbul Tiwari — cancelled due to illness
Dept. of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago
Mahā Acharya? Or The Great Pickle? A Multimedial Mahābhārata Mash-up
George K. Thiruvathukal
Computer Science Department, Loyola University Chicago
Allen Frantzen
English Department, Loyola University Chicago
Electronic Editing and Anglo-Saxon Texts
Xin Xiang
Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
Mining Social Networks in 19th Century American Novels