Jekyll2023-12-13T20:52:35+00:00https://spacetimenarratives.github.io/feed.xmlSpace Time Narratives ProjectUnderstanding imprecise space and time in narrativesSpace Time NarrativesSpatial Humanities workshop at CL2023 (July 2023)2023-07-02T00:00:00+00:002023-07-02T00:00:00+00:00https://spacetimenarratives.github.io/blog/CL2023-workshop<p>On Sunday 2nd July 2023, the project team ran a workshop called ‘Spatial Humanities: Finding spatial and time narratives in corpus data’
at the Corpus Linguistics (CL2023) conference, hosted at Lancaster University in the UK.
Our workshop explored practical solutions for corpus linguists, digital humanists and computing researchers to study time and spatial relationships in corpora.</p>
<p>Attendees at the workshop used our bespoke Python Notebooks and Streamlit based visualisation demos, and all code and data was made
available open source and open access at the workshop.</p>
<p>The Python Notebooks that participants used and our slides from the workshop are available on
<a href="https://github.com/SpaceTimeNarratives/demo">our GitHub repository</a>.</p>
<p><img src="/assets/images/CL2023_workshop_1.jpg" alt="Ignatius explaining spatial and temporal relationships in text" /></p>
<p><img src="/assets/images/CL2023_workshop_2.jpg" alt="Workshop participants using our web based notebooks and Streamlit demo" /></p>Space Time NarrativesOn Sunday 2nd July 2023, the project team ran a workshop called ‘Spatial Humanities: Finding spatial and time narratives in corpus data’ at the Corpus Linguistics (CL2023) conference, hosted at Lancaster University in the UK. Our workshop explored practical solutions for corpus linguists, digital humanists and computing researchers to study time and spatial relationships in corpora.CLARIN EHRI workshop (May 2023)2023-05-17T00:00:00+00:002023-05-17T00:00:00+00:00https://spacetimenarratives.github.io/blog/CLARIN-EHRI-workshop<p>Between Monday 15th and Wednesday 17th May 2023, project members attended a workshop at King’s College London
co-hosted by the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) and the Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure (CLARIN).
The theme of the workshop was ‘Making Holocaust Oral Testimonies more usable as Research Data’
and was a practical hackathon style event where curators of oral history recordings, Holocaust researchers, digital humanists and language technologists got together to work on making oral testimony recordings more usable as research data.
Ignatius and Paul demonstrated the project’s Python notebooks which illustrate what can be achieved using a combination of various
NLP methods applied to extract named entities and other geospatial features from text.</p>
<p>For further details of the three day event, please see
the <a href="https://www.clarin.eu/event/2023/making-holocaust-oral-testimonies-more-usable-research-data">event details on the CLARIN website</a>
and
<a href="https://www.clarin.ac.uk/article/using-holocaust-testimonies-research-data">Martin Wynne’s blog post ‘Using Holocaust Testimonies as Research Data’</a>.</p>Space Time NarrativesBetween Monday 15th and Wednesday 17th May 2023, project members attended a workshop at King’s College London co-hosted by the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) and the Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure (CLARIN). The theme of the workshop was ‘Making Holocaust Oral Testimonies more usable as Research Data’ and was a practical hackathon style event where curators of oral history recordings, Holocaust researchers, digital humanists and language technologists got together to work on making oral testimony recordings more usable as research data. Ignatius and Paul demonstrated the project’s Python notebooks which illustrate what can be achieved using a combination of various NLP methods applied to extract named entities and other geospatial features from text.British Library Expert Workshop2023-04-17T00:00:00+00:002023-04-17T00:00:00+00:00https://spacetimenarratives.github.io/blog/BL-expert-workshop<p>On Monday 17th April 2023, we held our first expert workshop at the British Library in London, UK.
The meeting had two main aims:</p>
<ol>
<li>To receive feedback and advice on the project’s work from a wide set of partners</li>
<li>To discuss how the project’s research can contribute to a wider set of projects and agendas</li>
</ol>
<p>Thanks to all the members of the expert meeting who were able to attend in person or remotely for providing advice and guidance on our project achievements so far, and plans for the future.</p>
<p><img src="/assets/images/BL_advisory_board_April2023.jpg" alt="Members of the expert meeting at the British Library in April 2023" /></p>Space Time NarrativesOn Monday 17th April 2023, we held our first expert workshop at the British Library in London, UK. The meeting had two main aims: To receive feedback and advice on the project’s work from a wide set of partners To discuss how the project’s research can contribute to a wider set of projects and agendasText2Story 20232023-04-02T00:00:00+00:002023-04-02T00:00:00+00:00https://spacetimenarratives.github.io/blog/Text2Story-paper<p>Ignatius Ezeani has presented our first project paper titled “Extracting Imprecise Geographical and Temporal References from Journey Narratives”
at the <a href="https://text2story23.inesctec.pt/">Text2Story 2023 workshop</a> in Dublin, Ireland.
Text2Story 2023 is the Sixth International Workshop on Narrative Extraction from Texts held in conjunction with the 45th European Conference on Information Retrieval.
The <a href="https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3370/paper11.pdf">demo paper</a> illustrates how we are extending current geographical text analysis techniques and
applying them to analyses of two large corpora: one a corpus of travel writing about the
English Lake District, predominantly written in the 18th and 19th centuries; the other, a corpus
of Holocaust survivor testimonies.
Our prototype NLP pipeline was demonstrated at the workshop and is available open source as a series of
<a href="https://github.com/SpaceTimeNarratives/demo">Python Notebooks on our project’s GitHub repository</a>.</p>
<p><img src="/assets/images/Text2Story2023.jpg" alt="Ignatius Ezeani presenting at Text2Story 2023" /></p>Space Time NarrativesIgnatius Ezeani has presented our first project paper titled “Extracting Imprecise Geographical and Temporal References from Journey Narratives” at the Text2Story 2023 workshop in Dublin, Ireland. Text2Story 2023 is the Sixth International Workshop on Narrative Extraction from Texts held in conjunction with the 45th European Conference on Information Retrieval. The demo paper illustrates how we are extending current geographical text analysis techniques and applying them to analyses of two large corpora: one a corpus of travel writing about the English Lake District, predominantly written in the 18th and 19th centuries; the other, a corpus of Holocaust survivor testimonies. Our prototype NLP pipeline was demonstrated at the workshop and is available open source as a series of Python Notebooks on our project’s GitHub repository.Hello world!2022-08-23T00:00:00+00:002022-08-23T00:00:00+00:00https://spacetimenarratives.github.io/blog/hello-world<p>Hello world!</p>
<p>Our initial project website has now gone live!</p>Space Time NarrativesHello world!Leeds RA vacancy2022-08-09T00:00:00+00:002022-08-09T00:00:00+00:00https://spacetimenarratives.github.io/blog/leeds-vacancy<p>Job vacancy: Research Fellow in Spatial Reasoning</p>
<p>Our grade 7 post at the University of Leeds has been advertised, please see <a href="https://jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx?ref=EPSCP1106">further details at the Leeds vacancy page</a>.</p>Space Time NarrativesJob vacancy: Research Fellow in Spatial Reasoning