@article {1228,
	title = {Understanding memories of the Holocaust{\textemdash}A new approach to neural networks in the digital humanities},
	journal = {Digital Scholarship in the Humanities},
	year = {2019},
	month = {01/2019},
	abstract = {<p>This article addresses an important challenge in artificial intelligence research in the humanities, which has impeded progress with supervised methods. It introduces a novel method to creating test collections from smaller subsets. This method is based on what we will introduce as distant supervision{\textquoteright} and will allow us to improve computational modelling in the digital humanities by including new methods of supervised learning. Using recurrent neural networks, we generated a training corpus and were able to train a highly accurate model that qualitatively and quantitatively improved a baseline model. To demonstrate our new approach experimentally, we employ a real-life research question based on existing humanities collections. We use neural network based sentiment analysis to decode Holocaust memories and present a methodology to combine supervised and unsupervised sentiment analysis to analyse the oral history interviews of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Finally, we employed three advanced methods of computational semantics. These helped us decipher the decisions by the neural network and understand, for instance, the complex sentiments around family memories in the testimonies.</p>
},
	keywords = {Digital Humanities, Holocaust},
	doi = {https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqy082},
	url = {https://academic.oup.com/dsh/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/llc/fqy082/5280949?redirectedFrom=fulltext},
	author = {Tobias Blanke and Michael Bryant and Mark Hedges}
}
@conference {307,
	title = {Creating general-purpose virtual environments for (digital) archival research },
	booktitle = {Digital Humanities },
	year = {2011},
	month = {19-22 June 2011},
	publisher = {Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations},
	organization = {Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations},
	address = {Stanford California },
	abstract = {This paper will present a critical analysis of our attempts to build Virtual Research Environments (VREs) for everyday Humanities research tasks using digital archives. Numerous specialised VREs have been developed for addressing particular tasks in various humanities disciplines. The Silchester VREs addressed data integration in archaeological excavations, the SDM VRE developed services for sharing and annotating manuscripts, while TEXTvre is concerned with TEI-based resource creation. Building on these experiences, gMan addressed the issue of moving beyond support for specific, focused tasks, and instead building services to enable more general-purpose humanities research activities, such as integrating and organising the heterogeneous and often unstructured digital resources, and support for {\textquoteleft}active reading{\textquoteright} processes Brockman et al. 2001 scholarly work in the humanities and the evolving information environment.},
	url = {http://dh2011abstracts.stanford.edu/xtf/view?docId=tei/ab-198.xml;query=hedges\%20blanke;brand=default},
	author = {Blanke, Tobias and Connor, Richard and Hedges, Mark and Kristel, Conny and Priddy, Mike and Simenoni, Fabio}
}
@conference {449,
	title = {Back to our Data - Experiments with NoSQL Technologies in the Humanities},
	booktitle = {IEEE Big Data 2013},
	year = {2013},
	month = {6-9 Oct. 2013},
	address = {Silicon Valley, USA},
	author = {Bryant, Mike and Blanke, Tobias and Hedges, Mark}
}
