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LABORATORY FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF GREEK AND LATIN DIGITAL RESOURCES

MSC IN AUGMENTED TEXTUAL STUDIES

MSc in Augmented Textual Studies

The MSc in Augmented Textual Studies: Text Encoding and Text Mining aims at providing graduate students interested in Digital Humanities – especially in Text Encoding and Text Mining – a solid scientific background at the cutting-edge of the field.

The MSc is conducted by the Department of Science, Technology and Engineering (NKUA), and the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, both member departments of the School of Science – National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

                           Courses

1st semester           Required courses

                                      Introduction to Digital Humanities
                                      Mathematical Concepts in Information Processing
                                      Programming for Digital Humanities with Python
                                      Quantitative Analysis of Linguistic Data

                                Optional courses

                                      Palaeography
                                      Academic Writing Skills
                                      Man - Machine Communication

2nd semester           Required courses

                                      Digital Media
                                      Text Ontologies
                                      Machine Learning
                                      Data Visualisation

                                Optional courses

                                      Semantic Web
                                      Stemmatics and Textual Criticism
                                      Geographic Information Systems and 3D Mapping
                                      Special Topics in Digital Humanities
                                      Dependency Grammars - Universal Dependencies
                                      Principles of Knowledge Engineering
                                      Practical Training

3rd semester           Required courses

                                     Digital Humanities Information Systems
                                     Text Annotation
                                     Text Mining

                                Optional courses

                                     Computational Stylistics
                                     Deep Machine Learning for Natural Language Processing
                                     Computational Semantics Issues
                                     Knowledge-Based Technologies
                                     VR/AR Technologies for Cultural Applications

4th semester           Post-Graduate Thesis