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Seminar: “Fascinating mutants”: An exploratory analysis of linguistic patterns in a genre-annotated dataset of 19th-century New Zealand newspaper articles

Thursday 9 July, 11am – 12pm
Brainbox (Elsie Locke 203)
Karin Stahel, PhD candidate in Data Science
The newspapers of 19th-century New Zealand contain a fascinating mix of article types and topics. From stern political commentary to obscure humour, the articles are sometimes surprisingly similar to today’s news and at other times very strange.

Desiderium featured in the Press

Congratulations to the Desiderium – What Stood Here team, whose project was featured in Tuesday’s Press. https://www.thepress.co.nz/environment/361023284/groundbreaking-exhibition-will-bring-lost-banks-peninsula-forests-back-life The project, supported by the Arts Digital Lab and the Faculty of Arts Digital Research Seed Fund, is led by Ellie Adams, along with Hamuera Kahi, Alex Waitoa, Sam Hampton and research alongsiders Tyler… Read More »Desiderium featured in the Press

DHRN Seminar: Can AI help screen HEC applications?

Monday 15 June, 10 – 11 am.
Jesse Pilcher
Human research ethics committees (HRECs) are under pressure. Growing submission volumes mean delays that affect researchers, participants, and the institution.
In this presentation, Jesse will discuss the progress the project team has made towards building a pilot pre-screening tool, and the challenges they have met along the way.

Desiderium project vlog: a field trip to Ōtepatotu

“Desiderium – What Stood Here: Exploring immersive documentary practice through 3DGS and land art” is an augmented reality land art installation combining a physical artefact, practical lighting, and a real-time 3D AR environment to visualise a representation of one of New Zealand’s least-known environmental atrocities, the loss of 99% of the ngāhere|forest in Banks Peninsula.

DHRN Seminar: “The post is racist, but lacks facts”: Fact-checking on X’s Community Notes

Elizabeth Stewart
Wednesday 29 April, 1-2 pm
How does crowd-sourced fact-checking differ from professional fact-checking?  In this qualitative analysis of Community Notes and corresponding posts from X (formerly Twitter), we identify the kinds of claims that note-writers address, the problems that they identify with those claims, the justifications for the verdicts they reach, and the sources they draw on to support these claims.

Congratulations Dorian!

Congratulations to Dorian Ghosh, who graduated today with their Masters in Teaching and Learning with Distinction. Dorian first joined the ADL team as a Research Alongsider in 2021, while they were still an undergrad. Since then they’ve returned to the Lab many times, working on projects as varied as finding… Read More »Congratulations Dorian!

Seminar: From Overton meta-data to scraped policy corpus

Wednesday 1 April, 10-11 am, Puaka-James Hight 224
UC researchers have access to Overton’s index of policy documents, which consists of over 23 million documents from governments, NGOs, IGOs, think tanks, and other relevant sources across 193 countries. Overton provides the ability to access rich document meta-data, including citation information, and the potential to work with this programmatically.  This presents an opportunity for new research on policy-making, who is involved, what they are saying, and how they evidence this.