Digital Humanities at Scale

This lecture explores the advancements in Digital Humanities from 2012 to 2032, focusing on the Time Machine project and the use of deep learning technologies for analyzing large-scale historical documents. It discusses the joint efforts between the DHLAB and the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the development of 'deep readers' for digitized documents, and the creation of a linguistic simulator for understanding linguistic evolution. The lecture also covers the challenges and progress in transcribing handwritten texts, building information graphs, and simulating historical events in a spatiotemporal context.