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Marieke van Erp, head of the DHLab of the KNAW Humanities Cluster will receive a prestigious ERC Consolidator Grant of 2 million euros. This funding will allow Van Erp to start the TRIFECTA project.
This project combines AI technologies, such as language and semantic web technology, in a unique way to extract contextualised information from digitised sources. This information about complex entities and concepts will be capturedin a dedicated database.
'Humanities research can extract so much more information from big data,' says Van Erp. 'The current wealth of digitised sources offers humanities research enormous opportunities. Unfortunately, current AI technologies for analysing this big data are not capable of representing complex concepts such as identity, and changes through time.'
It is precisely the exploration of complex entities and concepts that is at the heart of humanities research. TRIFECTA's goal is to improve and advance these technologies to deal with changes over time and links to different narratives.
About the European Research Council (ERC)
Established by the European Union in 2007, the ERC is Europe's leading funding organisation for excellent frontier research. It funds creative researchers of all nationalities and ages for projects across Europe. The ERC offers four core grant schemes: Starting Grants, Consolidator Grants, Advanced Grants and Synergy Grants. The ERC is led by an independent governing body, the Scientific Council. The ERC's total budget from 2021 to 2027 exceeds €16 billion, as part of the Horizon Europe programme.
About the KNAW Humanities Cluster
The KNAW Humanities Cluster (HuC) is a collaboration from the KNAW-institutes Huygens Institute, the International Institute of Social History (IISH) and the Meertens Institute. The KNAW Humanities Cluster houses researchers, experts in digital data and collection management, (data) collections and digital infrastructure