The BILLIG project was an opportunity to create synergies between two research teams, in Oslo and Lisbon, between two methodologies, Natural Language Processing and Geographic Information Systems, between two projects, the Literateca and the Atlas of Literary Landscapes, to advance in the study of literature in Portuguese available in digital format. In this sense, it Read more about End of the project and results[…]
The paper “Leitura distante em português: resumo do Primeiro Encontro” has just been published in MATLIT: Materialidades da Literatura in the scope of BILLIG project. It integrates the volume number 8.1, regarding digital literary scholarship.
The 2nd Workshop: Improving literary analysis with Computation Linguistics took place on the 9th and 10th December 2020 (on Zoom). This webinar aimed to present and discuss the advances and the research done by BILLIG with the application of the computational linguistics techniques to the Atlas of Literary Landscapes and Literateca’s projects regarding corpus linguistics, Read more about 2nd Workshop: Improving literary analysis with Computational Linguistics[…]
Internship (12 days – December) in which one researcher from ILOS was in the Digital Humanities Lab (Lab HD – NOVA FCSH) and received training in GIS methodologies. You can see the Report of this activity here Read more about Internship in Lisbon[…]
Conference on Distant Reading in Portuguese Language This meeting discussed the recent subdiscipline of literary studies and computational linguistics entitled Distant Reading in relation to Lusophone literature. The goal was to find paths, join efforts, and propose culturally appropriate targets. Presentation of Billig´s researchers:
This included the partnership’s 1st face-to-face meeting Venue: ILOS, UiO, Oslo The organization of BILLIG’s 1st training course (3 days) aimed to introduce new digital ways of studying literature by visualizing it through maps. In this training course two experts from NOVA gave lectures about what is the spatial turn and Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Read more about 1st Training Course – Introduction to Spatial Humanities[…]