I've just returned from a Prosopography Hackathon at the University of Vienna, a three day long digital humanities event to "hack" databases of people and biography. After a short brainstorming session, I volunteered for "information extraction" (getting information out of texts), but my three-person team had dissolved by the afternoon of the first day. I feared I'd have to … [Read more...] about Prosopography Hackathon Project: Using Machine Learning to extract entities from Ancient Greek (and other languages)