Summer Research Update

This summer I am continuing to work on the Moravian Lives project. Within the project, I read and semantically tag memoirs for people’s names, places, events, and other important entities. Using this information, we hope to be able to answer interesting questions involving the Moravian community. One of the interesting questions that we have encountered recently is whether every person and place is worthy of … Continue reading Summer Research Update

Summer Research Blog: Week 2

This week, my research was interrupted and slowed by having my wisdom teeth removed this Tuesday. However, in spite of that, I was able to continue my work on the REED London project. My biggest accomplishment this week was my georectification of the Whitehall map of 1680. This map presented a challenge to me previously, because it shows only a very small portion of land … Continue reading Summer Research Blog: Week 2

Emotion Encoding Update

After encoding memoirs for two weeks now, our team was able to uncover a number of religious events unique to Moravians that are often quite emotional. It is important for us to capture these events through textual encoding in order to analyze how often they occur and the emotional outcomes of these events. The first of these events is a religious awakening, which often occurs … Continue reading Emotion Encoding Update