What Is Digital Humanities?

Post date: Feb 04, 2016 2:9:29 AM

Application of computational methods in humanities scholarship and media production

Karl Grossner

DH is the field in which Humanities and Information Technologies can interact and support each other. On one side Humanistic competences can help Human Language Technologies to tackle one of the most difficult challenges of the discipline, which is the handling of the semantics of human language texts. On the other side Information Technologies can support research activities where the analysis of texts and images plays a crucial role and that are traditionally qualified as Humanistic (e.g. Historical and Literary Studies; Cultural Heritage).

DH group at FBK

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