#hybrid_languages

Towards Collective Gentleness?
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‘A Sentiment Thermometer’ is one of the installations in the exhibition of Algoliterary Encounters. It will be the starting point for the #Workshop. It asks questions to commonly used language models based on machine learning, like GloVe and word2vec. Using part of the Internet as training data, these models are considered to learn from ‘collective intelligence’. ‘A Sentiment Thermometer’ scores given written sentences as more positive or negative. This technique, also called sentiment analysis, (...)

#Algolit / Workshop, #Netnative_literature, #Hybrid_languages, #Literature, #Algorithm

Variations on a Glance
▻http://constantvzw.org/site/Variations-on-a-Glance.html

In the framework of Algoliterary Encounters Nicolas Malevé proposes a #Workshop on computer vision. Language, words, writing, descriptions and formulations are intimately linked to the way the millions of images on the internet are organised. Over the years, algorithmic techniques have evolved creating a new articulation of the relations between vision, information and knowledge. The recent breed of algorithms that power computer vision make heavy use of the techniques of machine learning. (...)

#Algolit / Workshop, #Hybrid_languages, #Algorithm

Algoliterary Encounter
▻http://constantvzw.org/site/Algoliterary-Encounter.html

In the framework of Saison Numérique the Maison du Livre opens its space for #Algolit during three days in a row. The group presents lectures, workshops and a small #Exhibition about the narrative perspective of neural networks. Neural networks are selflearning algorithms based on statistics. They often function as opaque ’blackbox’ algorithms, while they shape applications that are daily used on a worldwide scale, like search engines on the web, translation machines, advertising profiling, (...)

Algolit / #Workshop, #Lecture, Exhibition, #Hybrid_languages, #Literature, #Algorithm