Lesen und lesen lassen - Ein interdisziplinäres Praktikum zur maschinellen Verarbeitung raumsemantischer Texte der Geographie

Abstract

Der vorliegende Bericht geht aus dem Praktikum hervor, welches Laura Rebecca Klettke als Studen-tin der Digital Humanities von Anfang Dezember 2020 bis Anfang Februar 2021 am Leibniz-Institut für Länderkunde (IfL) absolvierte. Es war das erste Praktikum, das im Rahmen des Forschungsprojek-tes „Raumsemantiken der Geographie im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert“ in der Abteilung Theorie, Methodik und Geschichte der Geographie betreut wurde (Projektleitung: Ute Wardenga, weitere Wissenschaft-ler*innen im Projekt: Ninja Steinbach-Hüther, Dirk Hänsgen).1 Darüber hinaus handelt es sich auch um das erste Praktikum einer Studentin aus dem Bereich der Digital Humanities überhaupt am IfL.

Biographical Note

Ninja Steinbach- Hüther (SFB 1199 & Leibniz-Insititut für Länderkunde, Leipzig, Germany)

Ninja Steinbach-Hüther earned a PhD in Global studies from Leipzig University and the École normale supérieure, Paris, with a study on the “Circulation of African knowledge. Presence and reception of African academic literature in France and Germany”. Before, she studied French culture studies and Intercultural communication, English literature (Transcultural anglophone studies) and German as a foreign language at the University of the Saarland, Saarbrücken, as well as European studies during a semester abroad at Cardiff University, Wales. For several years, she worked as a research assistant, then as the project coordinator of a German-Greek bilateral research project at the Global and European Studies Institute at Leipzig University. Her academic interests include the circulation of knowledge in a globalizing world, cultural transfers, the theoretical and methodological approaches for the investigation of spatial formats and spatial orders and the actors within these processes. She particularly interested in Digital Humanities-driven approaches combined with conventional research perspectives to these topics and their applicability in an interdisciplinary research environment.

Manuel Burghardt (Leipzig University, Germany)

Manuel Burghardt is Professor of Computational Humanities at the Institute of Computer Science at the University of Leipzig. He is responsible for the bachelor’s and master’s programs in Digital Humanities. He is also the spokesperson for the GI’s Computer Science and Digital Humanities Group (InfDH) and the Forum for Digital Humanities Leipzig (FDHL).

Laura Rebecca Klettke

Laura Rebecca Klettke did an internship at the Leibniz-Institute für Länderkunde (IfL) within the project “Spatial semantics of geo-graphy in the 19th and 20th centuries”. This working paper is based on her experience with this internship.