Social Sciences and Humanities Data Archive Vrije Universiteit Brussel
In social and human sciences, it is essential to organize the sharing and reuse of empirical data efficiently. Empirical data, collected through specifically designed surveys ...
The project will create a network of researchers at universities and colleges in Karnataka, which will participate in rejuvenating and decolonizing the social sciences and humanities in the region and meet the local demand for scientifically informed debate on societal issues. The research network will emerge through a range of activities: workshops, expert classes, lecture series, national conference, research activities, dissemination ...
My research focuses on early modern art, art theory, attribution issues, cultural heritage, technical analysis of art and digital analystical tools (digital humanities).
Machine translation is all around us, and to push its quality forward a variety of automatic metrics exists to compare the quality of machine translations with reference translations. Yet, an accessible, unified approach to use these evaluation metrics is missing. With our proposal, MATEO: Machine Translation Evaluation Online, we bridge this gap. We prioritize technical and non-technical users by open-sourcing both an advanced Python tool ...
This research project will explore the oeuvre of the German-Jewish author Rahel Levin Varnhagen (1771-1833) as a form of knowledge against the backdrop of the transformational period of the early nineteenth century. From the beginnings, a biographic stance has dominated the research on Varnhagen and the impact of her persona and work is marginalized or even ignored in German literary and cultural history. The little research that has been ...
The main goal of this project is to explore the rhetorical and aesthetic affordances and limits of the sublime for figuring modes of materiality and (non-)human agency in contemporary U.S. literature. Because the sublime has a particularly contested literary and cultural history in the USA, where the “American Sublime” has been entangled with problematic notions such as the wilderness, the frontier, and technology, this project offers close ...