Here’s a transcript of a conversation I had with ChatGPT about Velazquez’ “La Fragua de Vulcano”
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The love life of the gods is still too much for ChatGPT
Art history research assisted by ChatGPT
Unless you’ve spent the last months under a rock, you’ve certainly heard about ChatGPT. Unbridled pundits have discussed its pro’s and con’s, and even demanded a moratorium. So let’s give it a spin for our purposes.
I’ve grown quite fond the work by the painter Hans Hartung (1904-1989). I tried to have a hopefully interesting discussion with ChatGPT about his work. I tried to apply some prompt magic to spice the responses a bit. Here’s the transcript of our conversation.
Continue reading “Art history research assisted by ChatGPT”Ontology-Based Approach to Creating Semantic Wikis
Maintaining a semantic wiki is challenging. Coping with increasingly complex wikis led to the development of a methodical approach for simplifying the creation and maintenance of semantic wikis. The methodical approach used involves modeling the semantic relationships underlying the information in the wiki as an ontology, and then programmatically creating the wiki from the ontology constructs. A methodical approach for creating and maintaining wikis greatly simplifies the creation and maintenance of semantic wikis. Furthermore, reusing vocabularies and taxonomies throughout several projects becomes manageable. The approach was implemented as open source software that maps ontology constructs to the wiki artifacts, and practical applications are discussed.
Published in Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage 15 (2) 1-7, DOI: 10.1145/3479012
Using neural networks to classify 3D scans of museum artefacts
For my capstone project in machine learning at EPFL, I wrote a classifier capable of sorting 3D scans of archaeological objects by culture.
Digitization of museum collections is currently a major challenge faced by cultural heritage and natural history museums. Museums are expected to digitize the collections to improve not only the documentation of artifacts, but also their availability for research, reconstruction and outreach activities, and to make these digital representations available online.
Machine learning setup
Continue reading “Using neural networks to classify 3D scans of museum artefacts”Summarizing a text using topic modeling
Having a way to summarize the contents of a large text corpus can be very interesting. In this example, I will graphically summarize “On the Origin of Species” by Charles Darwin to demonstrate this technique.
