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== Abstract ==
== Abstract ==
In this project, we use generative models to come up with creative biographies of Venetian people that existed before the 20th century. Our motivation was originally to observe how such a model would pick up on underlying relationships between Venetian actors in old centuries as well as their relationships with people in the rest of the world. These underlying relationships might or might not come to light in every generated biography, but we can be sure that the model has the potential to offer fresh perspectives on historical tendencies.
 
The Fondazione Giorgio Cini has digitized 36000 pages from Ulderico Rolandi's opera libretti collection. This collection contains contemporary works of 17th- and 18th-century composers. These opera libretti have a diverse content, which offered us a large amount of possibilities for analysis.
 
This project chose to concentrate on a way to illustrate the characters’ interactions in the Rolandi's libretti collection through network visualization. We also highlighted the importance of each character in the libretto they figure in. To achieve this, we retrieved important information using Deep Learning models and OCR. We started from a subset of Rolandi’s libretti collection and generalized this algorithm for all Rolandi’s libretti collection.
 
==Planning==
==Planning==



Revision as of 09:23, 14 November 2020

Abstract

The Fondazione Giorgio Cini has digitized 36000 pages from Ulderico Rolandi's opera libretti collection. This collection contains contemporary works of 17th- and 18th-century composers. These opera libretti have a diverse content, which offered us a large amount of possibilities for analysis.

This project chose to concentrate on a way to illustrate the characters’ interactions in the Rolandi's libretti collection through network visualization. We also highlighted the importance of each character in the libretto they figure in. To achieve this, we retrieved important information using Deep Learning models and OCR. We started from a subset of Rolandi’s libretti collection and generalized this algorithm for all Rolandi’s libretti collection.

Planning

Week To do
08.10. (week 4-6) Data Acquisition, Data Cleaning
22.10. (week 6-9) Model Training, Loss Function Visualization
12.11. (week 9-12) Tuning hyperparameters, Model improvement, separate models for image types
02.12. (week 12-14) Cleanup code, implement front end, write the report
16.12. (week 14) Final Project presentation

Resources

Methodology

Challenges

Links