Launch meeting of the ‘Digital Spatial Humanities’ working group

Launch meeting of the ‘Digital Spatial Humanities’ working group of the GDR CNRS MAGIS.

It is a pluri-disciplinary group of researchers from different fieds such as computer science, geography, history, linguistics, archaeology, etc.
The main actions will focus on meetings, discussions, tutorials and workshops organisation dealing with

• Extraction of geographic information from texts : TAL, data mining, machine learning, semantic web, …
• Development and release of linguistic and data resources (text corpora, historical gazetteers, etc.) with a perspective of reusability.
• Visualization, cartographic representations and spatial analysis based on textual sources from social sciences and humanities.
• Design of tools dedicated to textual data compatible with GIS (including historical GIS).

Organized by Ludovic Moncla and Carmen Brando