**With apologies for cross-posting**
Digital Humanities Hackathon on Text Re-Use: ‘Don’t leave your
data problems at home!’
27-30 July, 2015
Hosted by the Göttingen Centre for Digital Humanities (GCDH),
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany
Organised by: Emily Franzini, Greta Franzini and Maria Moritz
The Göttingen Centre for Digital Humanities will host a Hackathon
targeted at students and researchers with a humanities background
who wish to improve their computer skills by working with their
own data-set. Rather than teaching everything there is to know
about algorithms, the Hackathon will assist participants with
their specific data-related problem, so that they can take away
the knowledge needed to tackle the issue(s) at hand. The focus of
this Hackathon is automatic text re-use detection and aims at
engaging participants in intensive collaboration. Participants
will be introduced to technologies representing the state of the
art in the field and shown the potential of text re-use detection.
Participants will also be able to equip themselves with the
necessary knowledge to make sense of the output generated by
algorithms detecting text re-use, and will gain an understanding
of which algorithms best fit certain types of textual data.
Finally, participants will be introduced to some text re-use
visualisations.
For more information about the Hackathon, please visit: http://etrap.gcdh.de/?p=669
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Greta Franzini
Postdoctoral Researcher
Göttingen Centre for Digital Humanities
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Georg-August-University Göttingen
Papendiek 16
D-37073 Göttingen, Germany
W: http://etrap.gcdh.de
W: www.gretafranzini.com
E: gfranzini@gcdh.de
T: @GretaFranzini