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May 9, 2012 By Tim Sherratt in digital humanities, speeches 2 Comments Tags: QueryPic, text mining, tfidf, Trove

Yes, I have a suit. On 8 May at the National Library of Australia I gave my suit an outing as I delivered my Harold White Fellowship presentation. Thanks to everyone who came along. If you missed it or want to relive the fun, the NLA has made a podcast available. My slides are also(…)

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Recently I submitted the abstract below for ALIA Information Online 2015. I haven’t heard yet whether it’s been accepted, but I thought I’d post it here anyway because, even if I don’t get to talk about it at the conference, I want to think about the topic some more. If nothing else, this is an(…)
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