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Computational Humanities: A Definition
Computational Humanities is a discipline-agnostic approach that uses computational and quantitative methods to answer humanities research questions and analyze humanities-focused data sets.
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Vision & Values聽
The cultures humanists study are increasingly affected by algorithms, digitization and AI. The computational humanities are not here to replace the traditional humanities but rather to expand their possibilities and educate a new generation of scholars who are equipped to interpret our present and preserve our past in a moment of rapid change.聽
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Research & Scholarship
Computational humanities research runs the gamut from digitizing Civil War pension records to AI tools that enhance writing instruction to using VR to immerse an audience in "A Midsummer Night鈥檚 Dream." Our work is based on preservation and expansion. The humanities shape our past, our present and our future, and digital tools play a role in understanding all of it.聽
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Campus Partnerships聽
Formal and informal partnerships across four Dietrich College humanities departments (English, History, Languages, Cultures & Applied Linguistics, Philosophy), as well as the Department of Statistics & Data Science and the Information Systems Program. Outside of Dietrich, we partner with the , (LTI), (HCII), the (ETC), the Block Center for Technology and Society, and the K&L Gates Initiative on Ethics and Computational Technologies offer our students an unusually rich environment for interdisciplinary work.