Projects

Digital warfare in the Sahel Popular Networks of War and Cultural Violence

This multidisciplinary project investigates popular networks of war and cultural violence in the Sahel regio. The focus will be on information flows on social media.

From Pixels to Purpose Bridging Deep Learning, Computer Vision, and Korean Visual Data

This project utilises computer vision, OCR and object segmentation techniques to digitise and analyse Korean texts and images to understand the evoluation of Korean society

Measuring Tonal Distances using Dialect Tonometry

This project uses computational methods and cartographic techniques to explore, visualise and analyse dialectal variation of Yue. The project will explore tonal representation and usage in dialectometry and quantitaive language research in general.

Tracing the History of Technocracy in Historical Parliamentary Debates

This research studies the rise of technocratic ways of thinking and the impact they have on democratic debate by mining and modelling millions of parliamentary debates from the twentieth century Dutch Lower House using NLP (Natural Language Processing) methods.

Text Alignment via Genetic Algorithm An Experiment on Sanskrit/Tibetan/Chinese Buddhist Texts

Using a custom genetic algorithm, this project demonstrates some ways that the ambiguities of text alignment of multiple Buddhist texts in various langauges can be transformed from obstacles into assets in the analysis of unknown texts.

Political Social Networks in Indonesia

This project combines expertise in political economy of Indonesia and expertise in web scraping, social network analysis and machine learning, in order to make election data freely and easily accessible to all researchers interested in the political economy and democracy in Indonesia.