Blog
Stories, perspectives, interviews, and investigations in digital humanities.
Powering Up Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion for Old Chinese
8 September 2021
Alan Ding ’22, NLP+Humanities Fellow at the CDH, implemented a neural network to predict the pronunciation of Old Chinese characters.

PPA Hosts Four Undergraduate Summer Interns
2 September 2021
A team of four undergraduates helped with metadata work essential for the Princeton Prosody Archive's new features, while undertaking independent research projects that advanced the PPA in a unique way.

Fall 2021 — (Updated) Browse CDH's Curated Course List!
2 September 2021
We've updated and are reposting our Fall 2021 curated course list for the Add/Drop period, which ends September 14.
The following are Fall 2021 course offerings that deal with topics at the intersection of technology, society, and culture; provide hands-on computational instruction; or give students the opportunity to explore digital humanities methods.

CDH at ACH2021: Presenting “Startwords”
1 September 2021
Gissoo Doroudian, User Experience Designer at the CDH, offered a video introduction to Startwords, the CDH’s forum for experimental humanities scholarship. Comments welcome!

The other Rebecca
23 August 2021
Working with Rebecca Munson, sharing a first name with her, and missing her.

Rebecca Munson
14 August 2021
Rebecca was a beloved friend, colleague, scholar, and mentor who served as Assistant Director of Interdisciplinary Education at the CDH.

Meet the 2021 CDH Senior Thesis Prize Honorees: William Ughetta
8 August 2021
William Ughetta ’21 creates a benchmarking tool for two databases of historic legal reports.

CDH at ACH2021: Gissoo Doroudian Introduces Bona Fide
5 August 2021
Doroudian, User Experience Designer at the CDH, delivered a lightning talk on Bona Fide, a project in the concept stage that invites users to think about search engines in a new way. Comments welcome!

Event Recap: New Languages for NLP Workshop I
22 July 2021
The series aims to expand natural language processing (NLP) resources to low-resource and historical languages.

The Visualizing the Virus Digital Project Website is Now Live!
19 July 2021
Visualizing the Virus, co-sponsored by the CDH, is an interdisciplinary digital project through which one can visualize and understand the Coronavirus pandemic from a variety of perspectives.

Meet the 2021 CDH Senior Thesis Prize Honorees: Lauren McGrath
14 July 2021
Lauren created a digital ethnography about urban Philadelphia neighborhoods and health crises.

Old project, new database — a milestone for the Princeton Geniza Project
1 July 2021
Reflections on a major milestone in the Princeton Geniza Project research partnership, including some of the challenges and preliminary insights from migrating the metadata into a relational database.
