Text Mining for Historical Documents: Schedule

Introductory Meeting / Vorbesprechung 12.1.2009

Slides (.pdf)

Seminar Schedule (preliminary)

Week One
Monday 16.02.
9:30-11:00	Introduction (Martin) Slides introduction (.pdf) Slides group work and final presentation (.pdf) What are historical sources and what can a historian learn from them? (Katrin Schmidt)
11:00-11:15	Coffee Break
11:15-12:45	From potsherds to pop songs: types of primary sources. (Torsten Kopp) How and where to find primary sources? (Daniel Quinten)
12:45-14:00	Lunch Break
14:00-15:30	The digitization of primary sources: possibilities, problems, outlook. (Martin) formation of the groups for the projects and start of the group work
Tuesday 17.02
9:30-11:00	Introduction to Computational Linguistics (Caroline) Slides (.pdf) Detection and Correction of OCR or transcription errors (Hüseyin Mergan) Slides [.pdf .ppt]
11:00-11:15	Coffee Break
11:15-12:45	Dealing with Non-Standard Orthography. (Sabine Hunsicker) Slides (.pdf) Named Entities: Background (Alexander Volokh) Slides (.pdf)
12:45-14:00	Lunch Break
14:00-17:00	Group Work
Wednesday 18.02
9:30-11:00	Named Entity Disambiguation and Linking (Tassilo Barth) Slides (.pdf) Case Study: The MITCH Project (Caroline)
11:00-11:15	Coffee Break
11:15-12:45
12:45-14:00	Lunch Break
14:00-17:00	Group Work
Thursday 19.02
9:30-11:00	Semantic Web Background (Fabian Shirokov) Slides (.ppt) Ontologies (Antonia Scheidel) Slides (.pdf)
11:00-11:15	Coffee Break
11:15-12:45	"How it really was": truth, archives, and the love of old things. (Martin)
12:45-14:00	Lunch Break
14:00-17:00	Group Work
Friday 20.02
9:30-11:00	Multi-Modal Data: Speech (Ghamdan Atef) Slides (.ppt)
11:00-11:15	Coffee Break
11:15-12:45	Group Work
12:45-14:00	Lunch Break
14:00-17:00	Taking Stock: What has been done in the first week?
Week Two
Monday 23.02.
Rosenmontag
Tuesday 24.02.
9:30-17:00	Group Work
Wednesday 25.02.
9:30-17:00	Group Work
Thursday 24.02.
9:30-17:00	Group Work
Friday 24.02.
10:15-13:15	Presentation of the Group Projects Extracting information about murders from the Broadsides (Alexander, Hüseyin, Katrin, Torsten) Slides (.pdf) SCOPE: Subjects connecting people, Kabinettsprotokolle der Bundesregierung (Antonia, Daniel, Fabian, Ghamdan, Tassilo)