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The U-Blad corpus now available in I-Analyzer

The CDH Research Software Lab has added all print editions of the U-Blad to the online text and data mining tool I-Analyzer.  The U-Blad served as Utrecht University’s (UU) independent magazine from 1969 to 2010. Launched on 5 September 1969, under the title U utrechtse universitaire reflexen, it was later renamed the U-Blad in 1974….

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MODIFED Workshop

20 June 2024 – 21 June 2024 @ All Day – The Re-examining Dialect Syntax Network (REEDs) and Leiden University Centre for Digital Humanities (LUCDH) are organizing a Morphosyntactic Dialect Feature Detection (MODIFED) workshop on Thursday 20 June and Friday 21 …

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Looking for patterns in readers’ reviews of translated books using DIOPTRA-L

What do English readers expect from translated literature? And how about the Dutch? Professor Haidee Kotze and her research team used big data to look for patterns in the way that ordinary readers review translated literature. Together with the Digital Humanities Lab they developed DIOPTRA-L, a corpus with 280.000 reviews of more than 150 books…

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The Digital Humanities Lab develops digital toolset for major European research project ‘People and Parliament’

The Utrecht Digital Humanities Lab will collaborate with the University of Jyväskylä (Finland) on the political-historical research project ‘People and Parliament’. This collaboration between software developers and historians enables groundbreaking research into parliamentary data. ‘People and Parliament’ is an ambitious project. The research focuses on the use of political language in the national parliaments of…

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