Natural Language Processing
Building Family Trees: Identifying Enslaved People in Ecclesiastical Records
Aug. 25, 2021—The Slave Societies Digital Archive (SSDA) preserves the oldest serial records for slave societies in the Americas. The records contain handwritten text in collections of books by ecclesiastical (religious) and notaries (other government officials) for the purposes of recording births, marriages, and deaths. The text are written in ecclesiastical Spanish and Portuguese. Through efforts of...
Laying Down the Law with Class Action Lawsuits
Aug. 16, 2021—How do judges choose a fair amount for attorney’s compensation in class action lawsuits? Is the decision consistent across similar court cases? Are there quantifiable defining characteristics that form the basis for differentiation in attorneys’ fees awards? Attorney and Milton R. Underwood Chair in Free Enterprise Law Professor Brian Fitzpatrick seeks to answer these questions....
Illuminating the Unseen: Insights into the African-American experience at Vanderbilt
Jul. 12, 2021—Who are the people who have made Vanderbilt great and made it into the hallmark of excellence and inclusivity that it is today? In 2007, inspired by notable African-American Vanderbilt alum whose contributions and accomplishments were relatively unknown to current Vanderbilt students, Dr. Rosevelt Noble began the Lost in the Ivy project. He sought to...
Legal Natural Language Processing (DSI-SRP)
Aug. 1, 2020—This DSI-SRP fellowship funded Henry Savich to work in the laboratory of Professor Brian Fitzpatrick in the Vanderbilt Law School during the summer of 2020. Henry graduated in May 2021 with a major in Mathematics and minors in Physics and Scientific Computing. The Legal Natural Language Processing (NLP) project, funded by this fellowship, aimed to...
Exploring Textual Data to Understand Educators’ Opinions and School Characteristics (DSI-SRP)
Aug. 1, 2019—This DSI-SRP fellowship funded Jong Eun Jung to work in the laboratory of Professor Jason Grissom in the Department of Leadership Policy and Organization during the summer of 2019. Jong anticipates graduating in 2022 and is majoring in Human and Organizational Development and Computer Science. The project funded by this fellowship aimed to understand the...
Document Driven Exploration of Citation Usage via Contextualized Neural Language Models (DSI-SRP)
Aug. 1, 2019—This DSI-SRP fellowship funded Joseph DeRose to work in the laboratory of Professor Matthew Berger in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science during the summer of 2019. Joseph graduated in 2020 with majors in Computer Science and Mathematics. As document collections in conferences and journals have grown, documents for research have become more...