Machine Reading: APIs for Text and Image Analysis for the Arts and Humanities

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Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) have given rise to a new and complex set of technologies, protocols and routines that enable new research methods and forms of presentation for scholarship and creative practice with images and text. Applying machine learning to text, known as text mining, and to images, referred to as image processing or image analysis—terms frequently used for the quantitative analysis of these mediums—presents unique intellectual challenges and represents a rapidly growing area of Digital Humanities. This course introduces students to this interdisciplinary field through a humanities-oriented media-theory framework. 002336