Describing the Archive: Identifying Offensive Lanugage
Talk
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Event date
Thursday 13 January 2022, 6pm to 7.15pm
Location
Online only
Admission
Free admission, booking required
Event details
Dr Vic Clarke & Dr Kevin Jones will talk about their work identifying offensive and biased language in archive catalogues. They will present the results from a three-month research project aiming to develop methods to automatically identify bias and offensive language in legacy archive descriptions.
About the speaker
Dr Vic Clarke and Dr Kevin Matthew Jones
Dr Vic Clarke is a Lecturer in Modern British History at the University of York, working on 19th century political movements.
Dr Kevin Matthew Jones is a Research Fellow at the National Archives, developing methods to digitally represent nationwide archive statistics c.2007 - 2020.