Seminar Algorithmentechnik -- Algorithmic Methods in the Humanities

• 01.03.17 Web page created.
• 19.06.17 presentation on June 22nd was moved to July 13th. No meeting on June 22.
• 20.06.17 presentations on 6 and 13 of July are swaped.
• 04.08.17 deadline for the review and the final document submission are extended to 25th of August and 15th of September, respectively
• 20.11.17 booklet published

• Participating Institutes: Institute of German Studiues, Institute of Philosophy, Institute of Data Processing and Electronics, Institute of Theoretical Informatics.
• Advisors: Prof. Dr. Gregor Betz, Lucas Czech, Michael Hamann, Dr. Tamara Mchedlidze, PD Dr. phil Michael Rupp, Prof. Dr. Alexandros Stamatakis, Dr. Reiner Stotzka, Dr. Danah Tonne
• Seminar meeting: Thursday 9:45 Uhr, SR301 (Informatikgebäude 50.34)
• First meeting: Thursday, 27.4. 9:45 Uhr, SR301 (Informatikgebäude 50.34)
• Credits: 4LP
• Module: M-INFO-102551
• Registration: Via email to Dr. Tamara Mchedlidze or to the supervisor of the topic you are interesting in (please include your „Matrikelnummer“). The number of participants is limited.
• Language: The seminar will be held in English

Digital humanities is an area of research at the intersection of computing and the disciplines of the humanities, e.g., history, philosophy, linguistics, literature, art, archaeology, music, as well as cultural and social sciences. Digital humanities scholars use computational methods to answer existing research questions in humanity sciences or to pioneer new approaches. The goal of the seminar is to go deeper into the algorithms that lie at the core of these computational methods.

The written reports of some of the participants of the seminar have been collected in a booklet.

At the first, preliminary meeting, the topics will be briefly presented and assigned to the participants. Afterwards each participant explores their topic using the given literature as a starting point. After a couple of weeks each participant gives a 5-minute short presentation on their topic. During the semester we will then have the main presentations on separate days. By the end of the semester and after a peer review phase, each participant has to hand in a written report of 12–15 pages in LaTeX. The overall grade depends equally on the main presentation and the written report.

• Please use LaTeX for composing the written report with this template:template.zip.
• Tips & Tricks for presentations an scientific writing.
• Information on using ipe for figures und presentations.