Space Time Narratives: Understanding imprecise space and time in narratives through qualitative representations, reasoning, and visualisation
Space Time Narratives: Understanding imprecise space and time in narratives through qualitative representations, reasoning, and visualisation
Par Ian Gregory, Professeur en humanités numériques à l’université de Lancaster et des membres du projet ESRC Space Time Narratives project (https://spacetimenarratives.github.io/).
Abstract
Previous approaches to understanding geographies in textual sources tend to focus on geoparsing to automatically identify place names and allocate them to coordinates. Such methods are highly quantitative and are limited to named places for which coordinates can be found, and have little concept of time. Yet, as narratives of journeys make abundantly clear, human experiences of geography are often subjective and more suited to qualitative representation. In these cases, "geography" is not limited to named places; rather, it incorporates the vague, imprecise, and ambiguous, with references to, for example, "the camp", or "the hills in the distance", and includes the relative locations using terms such as "near to", "on the left", "north of" or "a few hours’ journey from".
Date jeudi 28 septembre à 14h
Lieu INSA Lyon, Bâtiment Ada Lovelace, 3ème étage, salle 501.3.01 et en ligne (lien zoom envoyé par mail le jour du séminaire pour les personnes inscrites).