Digital Scholarship Conversations series is a monthly brown bag hosted by Tisch Library. Each conversation will focus on a different topic, helping us share ideas and build community around the intersection of digital technology and our research and teaching.
The Tale of the Heike, composed in late 12th century Japan, is a thoroughly studied text, yet it remains difficult for readers of English to gain a deeper understanding of the text. Beyond what is provided in a simple translation, this work presents new methods for enriching historical texts with word-level annotations generated by large language models and then presenting these materials in a novel reading environment.
Speaker Biography
Peter Nadel is the Digital Humanities Natural Language Processing Specialist in Research Technology in Tufts Technology Services. In this role, he helps faculty, students and staff to analyze large corpora of documents at scale. He has enabled several faculty members to understand their textual data from across many different departments on a variety of grants and projects. His personal research explores how artificial intelligence and large language models can be used to enable and facilitate classroom learning in several disciplines. He also studies the how these tools work with under-resourced languages, which have been traditionally disregarded by natural language processing.
Tisch Digital Design Studio (DDS)
Kaylen Dwyer