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Talk by Evelyn Gius at DH 2017 in Montreal
11 August 2017
A Shared Task for a Shared Goal
Evelyn Gius is giving an oral presentation Vortrag at Digital Humanities 2017 in Montreal, Canada:
A Shared Task for a Shared Goal: Systematic Annotation of Literary Texts
Nils Reiter1, Evelyn Gius2, Jannik Strötgen3, Marcus Willand1
1Stuttgart University, Germany; 2Hamburg University, Germany; 3Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarland Informatics Campus, GermanyIn this talk, we would like to outline a proposal for a shared task (ST) in and for the digital humanities. In general, shared tasks are highly productive frameworks for bringing together different researchers/research groups and, if done in a sensible way, foster interdisciplinary collaboration. They have a tradition in natural language processing (NLP) where organizers define research tasks and settings. In order to cope for the specialties of DH research, we propose a ST that works in two phases, with two distinct target audiences and possible participants.
Generally, this setup allows both “sides” of the DH community to bring in what they can do best: Humanities scholars focus on conceptual issues, their description and definition. Computer science researchers focus on technical issues and work towards automatisation.