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SICSA Research Scholar Funding: Highlights from LREC 2022
This blog was originally published on the Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance (SICSA) blog. At the end of June, I finally was able to attend a conference in person as a Ph.D. student: LREC! I’m grateful to SICSA, EFI, and the Informatics Graduate School for making it possible for me to attend LREC in person…
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What Counts as Culture? Part I: Sentiment Analysis of The Times Music Reviews, 1950-2009
Introduction Alongside my PhD, I’ve been working part-time for the Centre for Data, Culture & Society, collaborating with Dave O’Brien, Orian Brook, and Mark Taylor on a project called “What counts as culture?” The technical side of the project began by selecting articles from The Times Digital Archive using defoe, a tool built to analyze…