Assignments and Active Participation

  1. We meet on a weekly basis for two and a half hours (synchronic mode) which sums up to c. 30 hours over the course of the semester (equivalent to 1 credit point). See schedule for further information on the meetings.

  2. We will build a shared glossary of terms and concepts that are important in Ancient Language Processing. Students are going to work in groups of two on the terms assigned to them, providing a short definition and links to more extensive explanations. Writing will be done on the GitHub collaborative platform and will be accessible through the course homepage. (c. 30 hours = 1 credit point)

  3. Students will develop their own projects based on data provided by the instructors or by data that they contribute. The project plan requires (a) a humanistic research question, (b) operationalize it (i.e., develop a workflow to tackle the question computationally) and (c) present a poster describing their data set, methods, analysis, interpretation and results. The structure of the poster will follow a template of a typical computational humanities paper. (c. 120 hours = 4 credit points)

    Term paper preparation begins by registering your project in the shared Google Sheet:
    https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13FUZxMIrCQ9jIqh0fS70oWzwdiH4bo2FLxjW7UZeqSo/edit?usp=sharing
    Fill in your name, institution, proposed dataset, and research question. This will be updated throughout the semester as your project develops.

  4. ACL (2023) Term Paper Template. Computational Humanities article style. https://2023.aclweb.org/calls/style_and_formatting/

Assessment

Activity Number Weight (%)/activity Weight (%)
Participation 13 mandatory 0
Assignments 4 2 30
Research poster (1,000 words) + code notebooks (github) + 10 min. presentation 1 80 70
Total (%) 100