Language Technology for Digital Humanities

Modern humanities research increasingly relies on digital methods to process and interpret vast amounts of textual data. This course bridges the gap between traditional scholarship and computational language technology, providing a clear path for researchers to integrate digital tools into their workflows. You will transition from understanding basic text structures to applying advanced linguistic analysis techniques to your own research projects. Through a structured series of written explanations and examples, you will gain the foundational knowledge required to prepare, process, and analyze digital texts using industry-standard methodologies. The course covers the full lifecycle of a digital humanities project, from initial data cleaning to extracting meaningful insights from complex corpora. What you'll learn: - Understand the core principles of language technology and its application in modern humanities research - Learn how to prepare and clean text data using modern encoding standards and regular expressions - Apply linguistic processing techniques such as tokenization, lemmatization, and part-of-speech tagging - Explore the basics of text mining and information extraction for historical and literary analysis - Understand the role of modern large language models and prompt engineering in scholarly research - Practice identifying patterns and structures within digital corpora to support academic arguments The course begins with essential terminology and foundational concepts of digital text representation before moving into practical workflows for linguistic analysis and modern AI-assisted research methods. This progression ensures you build a solid theoretical base before exploring more complex computational applications. This course is designed for students, librarians, and researchers in the humanities who are new to computational methods. No prior programming or technical background is required to begin. Start exploring the intersection of language and technology to enhance your research capabilities.