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May 06, 2022

Cracking Historical Ciphers in Medieval Texts with AI in the Loop

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Beáta Megyesi Professor i datorlingvistik vid Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi Foto Mikael Wallerstedt BILDEN ÄR FRIKÖPT AV UPPSALA UNIVERSITET

May 6, 2022 at 7:00 P.M.

Ostrove Auditorium 

Beáta Megyesi is a professor of computational linguistics at Uppsala University in Sweden. She specializes in digital philology and natural language processing. Her research interests include the automatic analysis of non-standard language data from historical texts and ciphers to student writings to allow large-scale empirical studies for the humanities and social sciences. She is the former president of the Northern European Association for Language Technology, former head of Department of Linguistics and Philology and campus director of the English Park Campus at Uppsala University. She serves as the PI of the DECODE and DECRYPT projects, aiming at the development of infrastructural resources and tools for historical cryptology.