Dear all, (with apologies for cross-postings),
This summer term, the Bielefeld research colloquium “LiLi revisited: Digital Interface Research between Literary Studies and Linguistics" and the Bielefeld “Computational/Digital Linguistics Work Group Meeting” (H. Buschmeier/S. Zarrieß) will host two guest lectures that I would like to draw your attention to.
May 20: Prof. Dr. Nils Reiter (Cologne): More Open Science is not always the same as better science
June 10: Prof. Dr. David Bamman (Berkeley): Measuring Representation and Linguistic Variation in Hollywood
Both lectures are public. The meeting on May 20 is organized by the Open Science Network Bielefeld in cooperation with the Bielefeld Center for Data Science (BiCDaS). For titles, abstracts and room information see below. Both lectures can be attended in person and via zoom. Talks will not be recorded.
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Nils Reiter (Cologne)
More Open Science is not always the same as better science
Open Science — the move(ment) to make processes and results of scientific research accessible to everyone — has gained popularity in recent years, and the goal to employ “open science” can now be found in many proposals, statements and web pages. The talk aims at taking a critical perspective, highlighting areas in which open science may actually also have negative impact. This will be discussed in two aspects of contemporary research: peer review and large language model use. Different forms of openness can be discussed for (open) peer review, such as the anonymity of reviewers/authors, or the publication of review texts. Training of large language models is not possible without a huge amount of text, and open data makes this substantially easier. For both cases, the talk will highlight some of the negative “side effects”, and try to give some recommendations to avoid them.
When: 20.05.2025, 10-12 Uhr
Where: Hybrid. Bielefeld, University X-E1-201 and Zoom
Zoomlink: https://uni-bielefeld.zoom-x.de/j/62739019294?pwd=QJN0osQV9sazjw94iIoWjE8aWgUlNk.1
BiCDaS Lecture Series Data Science und Open Science Semester-KickOff
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David Bamman (Berkeley)
Measuring Representation and Linguistic Variation in Hollywood
Movies are a massively popular and influential form of media, but their computational study at scale has largely been limited due to the availability of data. In this talk, I'll discuss our efforts to build a collection of 2,307 films representing the top 50 movies by U.S. box office over the period 1980 to 2022, along with award nominees. Building this collection allows us to carry out several large-scale computational studies of film; I'll discuss our work measuring changing patterns in the representation of gender and race/ethnicity over the past 43 years (where we see an increase in diversity over the past decade) and in leveraging it to model variation in emotional performances and choice of adverbial intensifiers over both narrative and historical time. This work illustrates a new frontier of the data-driven analysis of film at a large scale.
When: June 10 2025, 10-12 hs
Where: Hybrid. Bielefeld, University, CITEC 1.204 and Zoom
Zoom link: https://uni-bielefeld.zoom-x.de/j/64995938421?pwd=VzH0WHjA5I1LaLsGQeB2wJuvBA5LoA.1
We are looking forward to a vivid discussion!
Berenike Herrmann, Hendrik Buschmeier, Sina Zarrieß (DH, CLS, CL, DL)
Katharina Weiß, and Nina Schönfelder (BiCDaS, Bielefeld OSN)
prof. dr. berenike herrmann
german literature | digital humanities
bielefeld university | faculty of linguistics and literature
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