Breakdowns in Machine Reading: Attempting to De-privilege Modern English Print with the Power of Supercomputing and the DH Dashboard

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Presentation for the 2017 Digital Frontiers Conference. This presentation is part of a panel addressing the constructive limitations of decolonializing DH by reflecting on the "Reading the First Books" project currently underway at the University of Texas at Austin. This presentation speaks to the project's technical breakdowns in machine reading.

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Tarpley, Bryan September 21, 2017.

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Presentation for the 2017 Digital Frontiers Conference. This presentation is part of a panel addressing the constructive limitations of decolonializing DH by reflecting on the "Reading the First Books" project currently underway at the University of Texas at Austin. This presentation speaks to the project's technical breakdowns in machine reading.

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Abstract: This panel addresses the constructive limitations of decolonializing DH by reflecting on the "Reading the First Books" project currently underway at the University of Texas at Austin. This project has developed transcription tools to machine-read historical texts and is transcribing books from the Primeros Libros Collection, a digital collection of books printed prior to 1601 in the Americas. This collection of digital facsimiles reflects a range of textual production in early colonial Spanish America written in multiple Mesoamerican languages as well as Latin, and Spanish. The Reading the First Books project is part of a greater institutional mission at UT Austin to decolonialize the digital humanities by combatting anglocentrism and increasing digital access to primary source materials in underdocumented indigenous languages. In our attempts to machine read indigenous language texts, we were forced to confront the limitations of the tools designed to process historical texts. As a result, we found ourselves unintentionally perpetuating our own privilege even as we sought to create new and more inclusive platforms. This panel explores the limitations of our guiding vision for decolonializing DH. Given these shortcomings, how can we move forward and imagine constructive futures for machine reading and subvert the privileging of dominant, standardized languages in DH? During this panel, Bryan Tarpley will speak to the project’s technical breakdowns in machine reading, Maria Victoria Fernandez will address the limitations of constructing Mesoamerican language corpora, and Albert A. Palacios will discuss future possibilities for decolonial DH in light of the challenges experienced by this project.

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Tarpley, Bryan. Breakdowns in Machine Reading: Attempting to De-privilege Modern English Print with the Power of Supercomputing and the DH Dashboard, presentation, September 21, 2017; (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1010762/: accessed May 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .

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