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MRC’s Sam Grabus presents at Digital Humanities 2019, in Utrecht

MRC PhD student Sam Grabus and Temple University’s Peter Logan presented their paper at Digital Humanities 2019 in Utrecht, Netherlands, on Thursday, July 11th.

Sam Grabus presenting at DH 2019, in Utrecht
Sam Grabus presenting at DH 2019, in Utrecht, demonstrating how the HIVE tool maps naturally-extracted keywords to controlled vocabulary terms.

The presentation, entitled, “Knowledge Representation: Old, New, and Automated Indexing,” shared comparative topic relevance results from automatically indexing 19th century Encyclopedia Britannica entries with two controlled vocabularies: an historical knowledge organization system developed by Ephraim Chambers, as well as the contemporary Library of Congress Subject Headings.

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