Profile

Contact

lastname at tu-berlin.de
@davidlassner@scholar.social
twitter.com/davidlassner
github.com/millawell
orcid.org/0000-0001-9013-0834

Research

Prizes

Winner of the 2021 Rahtz Prize for TEI Ingenuity.
It has been awarded for the Standoff Converter, an open source Python package for the bidirectional conversion between TEI and standoff that makes it easy to apply NLP models on existing TEI and add the results to the TEI document.
github.com/standoff-nlp/standoffconverter

Journal Articles

Publishing an OCR ground truth data set for reuse in an unclear copyright setting.
David Lassner, Julius Coburger, Clemens Neudecker, Anne Baillot.
Zeitschrift für digitale Geisteswissenschaften and Melusina Press 2021 (Sonderband 5).
zfdg.de/sb005_006

Automatic Identification of Types of Alterations in Historical Manuscripts.
David Lassner, Anne Baillot, Sergej Dogadov, Klaus-Robert Müller, Shinichi Nakajima.
Digital Humanities Quartely (2021 15.2)

Conference Talks

The Standoff Converter. A standoff-based approach to work on TEI documents in Python that connects the world of digital philology with NLP.
David Lassner.
TEI Conference and Members’ Meeting 2021.
Rehearsal take on yt: youtu.be/JEQ3ChonZz8

Attributions Of Early German Shakespeare Translations.
David Lassner, Anne Baillot, Julius Coburger.
DH 2019 Conference. Utrecht Jul 2019.

What comes next? Finding connections between word embeddings.
David Lassner, Stephanie Brandl
EADH 2018 Conference. Galway 2018.

Finding reasons for modifications in historical manuscripts
David Lassner, Anne Baillot, Sergej Dogadov, Klaus-Robert Müller, Shinichi Nakajima
AIUCD 2017 Conference. Rome 2017.

Poster Presentations

Times are changing: Investigating the pace of language change in diachronic word embeddings.
Stephanie Brandl, David Lassner.
Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change at the ACL 2019 Florence 2019.

Variational Inference: Finding reasons for modifications in historical manuscripts.
David Lassner.
DH 2017 Conference. Montreal 2017

Panels

Multilingual NLP as Interface.
David Bamman, Quinn Dombrowski, Natalia Ermolaev, Andrew Janco, Toma Tasovac, Melanie Walsh, David Lassner.
DARIAH Annual Event 2021: Interfaces.

Zeitgeist in NLP.
Moderating the topical table on ML and NLP in the Digital Humanities.
Oliver Eberle and David Lassner.
ICML 2021 Social Event

Datasets

Data set of the paper “Publishing an OCR ground truth data set for reuse in an unclear copyright setting” (Version 1.1).
David Lassner, Julius Coburger, Clemens Neudecker, & Anne Baillot. (2021).
doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4742068

Early Corona Twitter Dataset.
Stephanie Brandl, David Lassner
hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02861167

Workshops

Organiser and instructor at the workshop for DH and ML.
BIFOLD and TU Berlin. Jul 2021.
workshop-dh.ml.tu-berlin.de

Instructor at a series of workshops on NLP for low-resource languages, original title: “New Languages for NLP. Building Linguistic Diversity in the Digital Humanities.”
Center for Digital Humanities. Princeton University. 2021 - 2022.
newnlp.princeton.edu

Workshop on ML bias in DH, original title: “Bias in Datensätzen und ML-Modellen. Erkennung und Umgang in den DH.”
DHd 2020 Conference. Paderborn Mar 2020
Together with Stephanie Brandl and Anne Baillot
bias-ml-dh.davidlassner.com

Workshop on NLP for DH with SpaCy.
COST Action Budapest Sep 2019.
Together with Andrew Janco and Leonard Konle

Workshop on NLP for DH with SpaCy.
DH 2019 Conference. Utrecht Jul 2019.
Together with Andrew Janco and Seth Bernstein

Invited Talks

Anne Baillot, David Lassner:
Krieg gegen Frankreich? Frankreich-Hass bei Fontane im Kontext der Kriegsberichte seiner Zeit
Tagung des Fontanearchivs: Zwischen den Linien.
Theodor Fontane und der Deutsch-Französische Krieg 1870/71
Potsdam Jun. 2021

Natural Language Processing and the application to Digital Humanities
Tempton Next Level: Meet the Geek.
Cologne Oct. 2020.

Document Variants, Translation Styles and Dispute on Social Media
Workshop Digital Tools for Letters, Languages and Humanities
Le Mans Feb 2020.

HR in the era of Machine Learning
Workshop Bundesverband der Personalmanager at PWC
Berlin May 2019.

Blog Posts

On the workshop on Digital Humanities and Machine Learning that I organized at the BIFOLD/TU Berlin.
digitalintellectuals.hypotheses.org/4256

Bericht aus dem Workshop zu Bias in Datensätzen und ML-Modellen. Erkennung und Umgang in den DH.
Gastbeitrag im Blog von Anne Baillot.
digitalintellectuals.hypotheses.org/3262

Preprints

Von Graphen zu Word Embeddings. Zur Entwicklung des mathematischen und visuellen Instrumentariums der Literaturwissenschaft.
Anne Baillot and David Lassner. 2022.
hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03687146

Balancing the composition of word embeddings across heterogenous data sets.
Stephanie Brandl, David Lassner, Maximilian Alber.
arxiv.org/abs/2001.04693

Automatic Identification of Types of Alterations in Historical Manuscripts.
David Lassner, Anne Baillot, Sergej Dogadov, Klaus-Robert Müller, Shinichi Nakajima
hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02512217v2

Teaching

Python Programming for Machine Learning (Organization and a selection of lectures)

Seminar and Lecture Machine Learning in the Sciences
With applications in Physics, Remote Sensing Image Analysis, Digital Humanities, Medical Imaging and Neuroscience
(Organization and lecture on DH)

Beginners workshop Machine Learning (two times)
(Organization and a selection of lectures, tutorials)

Advanced workshop on Deep Learning in Quantum Chemistry
(Organization and a selection of lectures, tutorials)

Advanced workshop on Deep Learning in Medical Imaging and Explanation/Interpretation of Neural Networks
(Organization and a selection of lectures, tutorials)

Pet Projects

Budenblaetter, a paper print calendar full of life’s found footage collages and found objects, accumulations and experiments: short prose to pictures to poetry
budenblaetter.de

Alphabattle, word guessing game that I did with a friend.
Use your vocabulary, your detective skills, and your knowledge of your friend’s personality to guess the word in a game of
alphabattle.xyz