Please use your University emails to sign up to ensure eligibility for this event.
Date: Friday 19 April 2024
Location: University of Leeds
Cost: Free
Areas of Interest:
Machine Learning, or Artificial Intelligence, provides a broad set of methods for making predictions, relevant to diverse disciplinary areas, research challenges and social issues. The Digital Humanities provides an equally broad remit of cultural, social and literary research, around which have developed principles and methods with digital technology at their heart. Whilst diverse in expertise, Machine Learning and Digital Humanities share common ground: Digital Humanities can benefit from Machine Learning specialist knowledge around predictive processes, while Digital Humanities scholars can help Machine Learning by exploring and explaining the wider context in which these predictions are designed and implemented, and whether they emerge for the right reasons or otherwise.
Aims for the Event
The sandpit event aims to share the expertise of the DH and ML communities from across the University of Leeds and N8 universities, to discuss possible synergies, and to explore opportunities that could lead to future collaborative projects.
Topics for discussion might include:
- Responsible Machine Learning and trust in research;
- Reflection and critique around the reasons for decisions of AI tools;
- Biases and variation in data: the representativeness of data, and data as a product of culture
Data and materials could include heritage and cultural collections, social media, social and legal documentation, educational resources, literary works and digital media.
All Welcome!
Anyone who sees their research or interests as engaging with these themes and questions (whether tentatively or explicitly) is very welcome to attend.
The event will identify common goals, shared concepts and terminology, working towards developing a creative approach for shared problems, and foster connections and networks across digital research communities at the University of Leeds.
Please get in touch in advance with the suggestions of topics and datasets of interest you would like to discuss at the sandpit.
Lunch and refreshments are provided.
How to Sign Up:
Leeds-based attendees: Please sign up for a place by Wednesday 17th April 2024
For N8 researchers not based at Leeds: we will run a wait-list for the event and this will close on Sunday 14th April 2024.
We look forward to welcoming you.
For more information, or to suggest specific topics to be discussed at the sandpit please contact Mel Evans (m.evans5@leeds.ac.uk) and Serge Sharoff (s.sharoff@leeds.ac.uk)