Text for Humans, Text for Computers

Before the workshops, students are expected to have participated in a class on digital text analysis. Those who did not attend that class, are treating these materials as self-study, or would simply like a refresher can check out my lecture on Text for Humans, Text for Computers that I originally recorded in 2021 for the Information Research 1 course in the DLIS Master’s programme taught at the University of Borås. This class focusses on questions such as: What does the concept of ‘Text’ signify for humans?; and How can we translate our human understanding of texts to the computer? This second question is especially relevant when we want to start to retrieve information that is stored in digitised texts.