Visualising and reading texts: Linguistic reading in the digital age and the role of libraries
Dr Noah Bubenhofer
As text archives, libraries have always been at the heart of philological readings. In the wake of digitisation, they are seeking new roles between the poles of traditional philological text analysis and modern text mining.
It is no secret that digital data and intelligent algorithms facilitate fresh perspectives on text.
Methods borrowed from visual analytics uncover patterns and enable big data to be analysed in the first place. The reflections on the role of visualisations in linguistics within the Visual Linguistics project spark ideas on what roles libraries might take on in future. The speaker puts these considerations up for discussion.
Dr Noah Bubenhofer is a German linguist and interested in language as an indicator of social and cultural phenomena. He holds a degree in communication and media studies, German studies and sociology from the external pageuniversities of Basel and external pageFreiburg im Breisgau, and has been running the "external pageVisual Linguistics" project at the external pageInstitute of Computational Linguistics at the external pageUniversity of Zurich since March 2015. He also co-founded external pagesemtracks, the Laboratory for Computer Based Meaning Research.