Speaker: Nicolas Ruth, Andreas Niekler and Manuel Burghardt
Affiliation: Computational Humanities Group, Institute for Computer Science, Leipzig University – Augustusplatz 10, 04109 Leipzig
Title: Peeking Inside the DH Toolbox – Detection and Classification of Software Tools in DH Publications
Abstract: Digital tools have played an important role in Digital Humanities (DH) since its beginnings. Accordingly, a lot of research has been dedicated to the documentation of tools as well as to the analysis of their impact from an epistemological perspective. In this paper we propose a binary and a multi-class classification approach to detect and classify tools. The approach builds on state-of-the-art neural language models. We test our model on two different corpora and report the results for different parameter configurations in two consecutive experiments. In the end, we demonstrate how the models can be used for actual tool detection and tool classification tasks in a large corpus of DH journals.
