Douglas Bagnall: Using machines to find hidden structure in text archives
Channel: NDF - National Digital Forum
Date: 17/10/2015

Day 1 of NDF 2015, 2.00pm Tuesday 13 October 2015

Machine learning can be used to find patterns in large text corpora that are invisible to metadata analysis, and would be difficult for a person to discover without months or years of work. The results cannot replace human researchers, but can point them to interesting areas of investigation. Douglas will briefly discuss developments in the field, and look at case studies in which recurrent neural networks have been used to uncover authorship in anonymous texts and investigate censorship in historical newspapers.

Douglas Bagnall is an artist and computer programmer who currently specialises in creating and decoding things using recurrent neural networks.