Unlocking the Secrets of the Past: Text Mining for Historical Documents (WS 2011/12)

Deadlines (no extensions)

• project report: 30.4.2012
• presentation summary (CS students only): 30.4.2012

Detailed Schedule (changes are possible)

• Vorbesprechung / Introductory Meeting: 17.1.2012, 1-2pm (sharp/st!), C7.4 Aquarium meeting room slides (.pdf)

Week One
Wednesday 22.02.
9:30-11:00	Organisational Stuff, Motivation/Case Study, (slides), Introduction to NLP (slides)
11:00-11:15	Coffee Break
11:15-12:45	Digitisation OCR Errors: Michael Barz (slides) Detection and Correction of OCR errors (1): Cornelius Leidinger (slides) Detection and Correction of OCR errors (2): Jonas Hempel (slides)
12:45-14:00	Lunch Break
14:00-15:30	Digitisation Preservation Issues: Christian Wellner (slides (.ppt)) Challenges for Natural Language Processing Non-Standard Orthography (1): Mariona Coll Ardanuy (slides) Adapting NLP Tools (3): Nikolina Koleva (slides)
15:30-15:45	Coffee Break
15:45-18:00	Group Formation / Group Work Group 1: SaariStory Michael Barz Cornelius Leidinger Jonas Hempel Mainack Mondal Group 2: The Hotspotters Nikolina Koleva Ehsan Khoddammohammadi Peter Stahl Mariona Coll Ardanuy Mehdi Hosseini Group 3: The Fidels Christian Wellner Benedict Fehringer Ervina Cergani Evangelia Kiagia Besnik Fetahu
Thursday 23.02
09:30-11:00	Metadata, Semantic Web Semantic Web: Peter Stahl (slides) Ontologies: Besnik Fetahu (slides) Inferring Meta-Data (1): Ehsan Khoddammohammadi (slides)
11:00-11:15	Coffee Break
11:15-12:45	Information Extraction, Text Mining Event Recognition (1): Mainack Mondal (slides) User Studies: Benedict Fehringer (slides)
12:45-14:00	Lunch Break
14:00-15:30	Information Extraction, Text Mining More Information Extraction: Mehdi Hosseini (slides) Converting Fieldbooks to Databases: Ervina Cergani (slides)
15:45-18:00	Group Work
Friday 24.02
09:30-11:00	What is History? Martin Schreiber Multimodal Data Images and Video: Evangelia Kiagia (slides)
11:00-11:15	Coffee Break
11:15-12:45	Discussion of Group Project
12:30-18:00	Group Work
Week Two
Monday 27.02.
9:30-18:00	Group Work
Tuesday 28.02.
9:30-18:00	Group Work
Wednesday 29.02.
14:00-16:00	Taking stock: presentations of projects
Thursday 01.03.
	Group Work
Friday 02.03.
	Group Work
Week Three
Monday 05.03.
	Group Work
Tuesday 06.03.
	Group Work
Wednesday 07.03.
	Group Work
Thursday 08.03.
	Group Work
Friday 09.03.
	Group Work
Week Four
Monday 12.03.
	Group Work
Tuesday 13.03.
	Group Work
Wednesday 14.03.
14:00-17:00	Final Group Presentations Hotspotters The (In-)Fidels SaariStory