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Personal Profile
Dr Barbara McGillivray is a Lecturer in Digital Humanities and Cultural Computation at King’s College London at the Department of Digital Humanities. Expert in computational and quantitative methods and research questions in the Humanities.
1. How do you define Digital Humanities?
For me, Digital Humanities are a methodological laboratory for the humanities, where researchers can experiment with new computational and quantitative methods to answer old and new questions in the humanities.
2. How did you become interested in DH?
I became interested in DH during my PhD in computational linguistics, when I worked on adapting techniques from computational linguistics to the study of the Latin language. I gradually realised the potential of using these methods beyond linguistics research, which has given the opportunity to work in many interdisciplinary projects.
3. Tell us about one of your DH projects?
One of my favourite projects took place in 2018-2019 and was funded by a small grant by The Alan Turing Institute (described here). I put together a team involving two statisticians, a digital humanist, and a classicist to study the change in meaning of words in ancient Greek using Bayesian statistics. It was the first time I led such a diverse team to study an old phenomenon with new methods.
4. Tell us about a DH project you particularly like?
I have worked on historical newspapers and I particularly like the Impresso project, which has digitized and enriched a vast collection of European historical newspapers, enabling researchers and the public to explore rich archives through advanced text mining and analysis tools. I like it because it democratizes access to valuable historical materials, fostering new ways of doing historical research.
介绍Barbara McGillivray博士
个人简介
Barbara McGillivray博士是伦敦国王学院数字人文学与文化计算系的讲师，专攻人文学科中的计算和定量方法以及研究问题。
1. 你如何定义数字人文学？
对我来说，数字人文学是人文学科的方法实验室，研究人员可以在这里通过新的计算和定量方法来探索回答人文学科中的旧问题和新问题。
2. 你是如何对数字人文学产生兴趣的？
在攻读计算语言学博士学位期间，我对数字人文学产生了兴趣，当时我致力于将计算语言学的技术应用于拉丁语的研究。我逐渐意识到这些方法在语言学研究之外的潜力，这让我有机会参与许多跨学科的项目。
3. 请告诉我们一个你的数字人文学项目？
我最喜欢的项目之一是在2018-2019年进行的，并由艾伦·图灵研究所的小额资助（详见此处）资助。我组建了一个团队，包括两名统计学家、一名数字人文学者和一名古典学家，使用贝叶斯统计方法研究古希腊语中词义的变化。这是我第一次领导这样一个多样化的团队，用新方法研究一个古老的现象。
4. 你特别喜欢的一个数字人文学项目是什么？
我曾研究过历史报纸，特别喜欢Impresso项目，该项目数字化并丰富了大量欧洲历史报纸，使研究人员和公众能够通过先进的文本挖掘和分析工具探索丰富的档案。我喜欢这个项目，因为它使宝贵的历史资料变得更加普及，促进了历史研究的新方法。