2024

"Are they human or are they data?" Digital archives and the creation of humanising stories.

Our “archive fever” has given rise to the creation of digitised archives of non-public records, including prison and medical case files. In the United Kingdom, the Wellcome Collection has digitised the medical case files for several …

Universal Discourse: Towards a multilingual model of discourse relations.

The talk will discuss a research project proposal aiming to create and evaluate the model of Universal Discourse: a unified, multilingual, corpus-based representation of text as a whole, going beyond the meaning of individual sentences to the level …

Is it written to be read? A case of readability in Sesotho.

Over the years, it has been evident that language learners in South African schools struggle with reading at appropriate levels of comprehension and fluency. Despite numerous interventions to improve learners’ reading levels, the texts used in …

isiBheqe: First additional script

Don't miss out on a presentation on isiBheqe scripts, their typology & the speakers' experiences with the isiBheqe soHlamvu writing system. Mark your calendars and make sure to secure your spot for the SADilaR DH Colloquium. Stay tuned for further …

What do we study when we study multilingualism? A bibliometric (-adjacent) analysis of the field.

Globally, multilingualism is the norm rather than the exception, and there is startling diversity in the linguistic and contextual factors that shape it. For several decades now, scholars have voiced concerns about sampling biases in multilingualism …

Empowered Through Community: Where to go when you need to learn new skills

Join us online to discover where to turn when you want to level up your skills and empower yourself through community support!

Data in healthcare: efforts digitisation and digitalisation

This talk will broadly discuss the speaker's experience around data access in the healthcare sector and the importance of collaboration, digitisation and digitalisation in the efforts to improve health outcomes. The discussion will centre around an …

Innovating Historical Scholarship: The Bullinger Digital Project.

This session offers an in-depth exploration of the transformation of Heinrich Bullinger's vast 12,000-letter corpus into a dynamic, fully digital, and multilingual format. We'll delve into the sophisticated digital workflows that navigate challenges …