Human and Machine Intelligence in Networks of Early Modern Print

John Ladd, jrladd.com/slides/machine-networks

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Did 17th century printers have “lines”?

Why should we care?

  • Interlinked circumstances of text production
  • Printers’ selection, agency, and motivation
  • Understanding clandestine printing

An example: Locke & Spinoza

Robert Everingham and Thomas Braddyll

Today’s Talk

  • Human and Machine Expertise
    • Computation in EM Studies
    • LLM research methods in the humanities
  • Who Printed What?
    • Critical metadata analysis
    • Structured language and entity extraction
  • Printers’ Lines
    • Document embeddings and text similarity

Human and Machine Expertise

In the Printshop