Mari Hatavara, Professor of Finnish Literature, Tampere University, Finland
Narrative is a key resource for mediating experience and making sense of time and change. Therefore, the study of narratives across diverse social situations and communicative environments is crucial for any discipline working with human action. The digitization of large data sets makes it possible to create computational tools for the recognition of narrative passages in globally non-narrative texts. This computational recognition of narratives enables the humanities and social sciences experts to target their interpretative efforts more precisely to these key narrative passages. This talk explores such efforts to extract narratives from two datasets—Finnish parliamentary records (1980–2021) and oral history interviews with former Finnish MPs (1988–2018)—by drawing upon approaches from interdisciplinary narrative studies and computational modeling based on linguistic features. Modeling complex concepts such as narrative creates new possibilities for humanities and computer sciences cooperation in natural language processing.
Prof. Hatavara's talk will also be presented via Zoom; join via the meeting link, or manually:
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This event is offered by Project Narrative.
