On Tuesday, May 7th, Project Narrative will be hosting a hybrid event with Mari Hatavara! This event will take place at 2:30 PM (EST) in Denney Hall 311 and will also be accessible through Zoom (see information below).

Applying Narrative Theory to Digital Humanities: Computational Recognition of Narratives Mari Hatavara, Professor of Finnish Literature, Tampere University, Finland projectnarrative.osu.edu

Applying Narrative Theory to Digital Humanities: Computational Recognition of Narratives

Narrative is a key resource for mediating experience and making sense of time and change. Therefore, the study of narratives across diverse social situations and communicative environments is crucial for any discipline working with human action. The digitization of large data sets makes it possible to create computational tools for the recognition of narrative passages in globally non-narrative texts. This computational recognition of narratives enables the humanities and social sciences experts to target their interpretative efforts more precisely to these key narrative passages. This talk explores such efforts to extract narratives from two datasets—Finnish parliamentary records (1980–2021) and oral history interviews with former Finnish MPs (1988–2018)—by drawing upon approaches from interdisciplinary narrative studies and computational modeling based on linguistic features. Modeling complex concepts such as narrative creates new possibilities for humanities and computer sciences cooperation in natural language processing.

Zoom information:

https://osu.zoom.us/j/92582185611?pwd=MFpGNmU0UWhuQTJya1pDY2c4MUd6dz09

Meeting ID: 925 8218 5611

Password: 838658