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October 19-20, Estonian Literary Museum, Tartu, Estonia<\/h4>\n

Working with various (archival) material, researchers\u00a0are\u00a0often confronted with the problem that although both quantitative and qualitative\u00a0methods in the humanities are quickly becoming more versatile, efficient\u00a0and numerous, tools for translingual and transcultural analysis remain underdeveloped. The majority of tools for data mining and analysis are available in the biggest languages only, which makes it difficult to study the smaller or extinct ones or compare them to for example English. In fact, sometimes researchers don\u2019t even have access to source texts of geographically close cultures because of language barrier (e.g. Estonian and Latvian are mutually incomprehensible). In the case of non-textual material, the limitations are not linguistic, in this case the access to metadata and -information, and cultural interpretations are important, and the challenges big data has to offer to non-textual transcultural research. Thus, it may not possible to get an adequate overview of the material or gain accurate insight as the results are blurred by technical difficulties. At the same time, the translingual and -cultural analysis has long tradition in different disciplines –\u00a0history, religious studies, linguistics, etc\u00a0–\u00a0and introducing the possibilities and advances of digital tools, systems, standards, and the results of research to the academic community is greatly\u00a0needed.<\/p>\n

The conference is third in the series\u00a0of yearly digital humanities conferences\u00a0in Estonia and includes a special\u00a0panel on ongoing projects and developments in\u00a0Estonian digital humanities.<\/p>\n

During the whole week the events of the global\u00a0Open Access\u00a0Week<\/a> take place at the University of Tartu Library, with FOSTER training courses on October 15 and October 23.<\/p>\n

More\u00a0information on the homepage of the conference:\u00a0http:\/\/www.folklore.ee\/dh\/en\/events\/dh_conference_estonia_2015\/<\/p>\n

Keynotes<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Kalev H. Leetaru (via Skype)<\/strong>
\nLooking Across Languages: Mass Translation of the World\u2019s News<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n

Imagine a world where language was no longer a barrier to information access, where anyone can access real-time information from anywhere in the world in any language, seamlessly translated into their native tongue and where their voice is equally accessible to speakers of all the world\u2019s languages …<\/p>\n

Kalev H. Leetaru<\/strong>\u00a0is one of Foreign Policy Magazine’s Top 100 Global Thinkers of 2013, a Senior Fellow at the George Washington University Center for Cyber & Homeland Security and a member of its Counterterrorism and Intelligence Task Force. In his speech he introduces his\u00a0GDELT Project, supported by Google Ideas, which monitors a considerable cross-section of the world’s broadcast, print, and web news media from nearly every country each day in over 100 languages and identifies the people, organizations, locations, themes, and events driving global society.<\/p>\n

Jan Rybicki
\nSignals in Stylometry: What Numbers Tell Us About Literary Works<\/h4>\n

Believe it or not, a computer can tell authors apart by counting the frequencies of some of the most frequent words they use. But the very same authorship attribution methods, based on multivariate nearest-neighbor analysis of vocabulary statistics, can also group authors by chronology, genre, or gender. While the exact mechanism behind this phenomenon remains unknown, it is worthwhile to observe how it persists in a variety of literary text collections in several languages.<\/p>\n

Jan Rybicki<\/strong> is Assistant Professor at the Institute of English Studies, Jagiellonian University in Krak\u00f3w; he also taught at Rice University in Houston. His research combines translation studies, comparative literature and computational stylistics to produce quantitative and qualitative analyses of literary language in the original and in translations. He has also translated ca. 30 novels into Polish by authors such as Amis, Coupland, Fitzgerald, Golding, Gordimer, Ishiguro, le Carr\u00e9 or Winterson.<\/p>\n

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Call for papers<\/strong><\/h4>\n

We welcome contributions from\u00a0the following areas:<\/p>\n