HCMH is proud to announce that research member, Dr. Moshe Blidstein, will co-present at The DS-ART POPUP (Data Science for Society) exhibition arranged and hosted by the Data Science Research Center at the University of Haifa.

About the project:

How can we identify the subjects discussed in texts written in ancient, foreign languages?
The emotions, opinions and worldviews of people living two thousand years ago are known to us only through the words they wrote and the artifacts they produced. But ancient literatures are vast, written in many different languages, and can usually be understood only by experts. So how can laypeople and experts navigate these literatures and locate topics of interest to them?
We invented a new method to suggest topic tags for every sentence, paragraph or page of an ancient text. The method works on all ancient languages. The automatic topic tagging helps us locate topics in ancient literatures, and also visualize how topics are connected to each other in the ancient texts, as in the picture here.
Dr. Moshe Blidstein (Department of General History)
Prof. Daphne Raban (School of Business Administration)
Gabi Tartakovsky (Dept. of Information and Knowledge Management)

The exhibition will be held on March 10-12, 2022 in the café-gallery, Kibutz Galuyot 91, Haifa