Talk

Where did the Holocaust happen? Locating place in testimonies through machine learning

Date
May 14, 2024 – May 16, 2024 · 14–16 May 2024
Where
Paris, France

Co-presented with Christine Liu (PhD Candidate, University of Maine) at the Lubartworld international conference Quantifying the Holocaust. Classifying, Counting, Modeling: What contribution to Holocaust History? We discuss how machine learning models can be used to identify and locate places mentioned in Holocaust testimonies, and what the resulting geography tells us about the events described.