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How did machines change accidents in Victorian Britain?

December 12, 2022 | Written by Mia Ridge

We’re excited to announce our latest crowdsourcing task for online volunteers. Get up close and personal with...

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Language of mechanisation team members awarded ‘Inter Circle U. Prize 2022’

November 4, 2022 | Written by Mia Ridge

Led by Barbara McGillivray, Jon Lawrence, Nilo Pedrazzini, Mia Ridge, Giorgia Tolfo, and Kalle Westerling submitted a...

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DH Benelux 2022 long paper: Historic machines from ‘prams’ to ‘Parliament’: new avenues for collaborative linguistic research

May 26, 2022 | Written by Mia Ridge

How can a simple research question like 'what was a machine?' provide an opportunity to engage the public with our work...

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Learning from Zooniverse volunteers to improve crowdsourcing projects

January 15, 2021 | Written by Mia Ridge

Did you know that anyone can start their own crowdsourcing project through the Zooniverse Project Builder? Their...

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From prams to Parliament – what was a machine? Help us find out

December 4, 2020 | Written by Mia Ridge

Help us teach computers to understand 'machines' from the perspective of people living through the Industrial...

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What is a ‘machine’ anyway? Help us describe them

October 27, 2020 | Written by Mia Ridge

Help us describe machines: contribute to our lists of ‘machine’ words on Zooniverse. Our first...

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Highlighting Authors’ Contributions and Interdisciplinary Collaborations in Living with Machines

May 26, 2020 | Written by Federico Nanni

We have recently uploaded a new paper to arXiv, an open-access repository of academic preprints. In that article, we...

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The impact of OCR on downstream Natural Language Processing tasks (tl;dr)

March 6, 2020 | Written by Daniel van Strien

In this blog post, we give a summary of a recent paper written by project members on the impact of OCR quality. The...

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Deep learning reading group

October 16, 2019 | Written by Daniel van Strien

Keeping up with Natural Language Processing The Living with Machines project will have many potential uses of Natural...

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Collecting annotations from British Library staff

September 23, 2019 | Written by Daniel van Strien

Like many projects working with digitised historic materials, the historians and data scientists on the project are...

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Introducing the Language Lab

July 11, 2019 | Written by Mariona Coll Ardanuy

At the Language Lab we are exploring the social and cultural impact of the Industrial Revolution as reported in...

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Did Machines Drive History?

July 11, 2019 | Written by Mariona Coll Ardanuy

Written by Daniel Wilson and Mariona Coll Ardanuy Technological change is very often regarded with a combination of...

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