FYI Best, w Orietta From: Archivists, conservators and records managers. [mailto:ARCHIVES-NRA@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Dixon, Simon N. (Dr.) Sent: 23 November 2012 17:30 To: ARCHIVES-NRA@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: Digital Humanities Meeting: Mining Spatial Descriptions in Medieval Charters

You are warmly invited to the next London Digital Humanities Group meeting:

11th December, 2012 5.15pm, Jessel Room, Senate House, London

ChartEx: mining spatial descriptions in medieval charters. www.chartex.org

The ChartEx consortium is an innovative partnership between historians, archivists, and experts in computer science and artificial intelligence from Canada, the Netherlands, the UK and the US. It is funded by the Digging into Data Challenge, 2012-13.

The ChartEx Project is developing new ways of exploring the full text content of digital historical records. In particular it is exploring the descriptions of parcels of property found in medieval charters and their associations with three key entities (people, places and events).

The new ChartEx tools will use a combination of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Data Mining to extract information about places, people and events from the charters automatically and find new relationships between them.

The project will then build an interactive "virtual workbench" that will allow historians, archivists and others interested in charters to explore the information extracted and add further information and comments.

The seminar will present progress to date and invite further discussion.

Participants in the Seminar will include historian Sarah Rees Jones (York), computational linguist Roger Evans (Brighton), and Helen Petrie, Professor of Human Computer Interaction (York).

All are welcome. To confirm your attendance, please complete the form at: http://goo.gl/lMOZj

Dr Simon Dixon Digital Humanities and Special Collections Manager David Wilson Library University of Leicester University Road Leicester. LE1 7RH

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Dr Orietta Da Rold Lecturer in Chaucer and Medieval Literature School of English University of Leicester University Road LE1 7RH

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