University of Oulu
The University of Oulu’s DARIAH node supports language-focused research across the social sciences and humanities, with strengths in corpus creation, language models, and digital tools. It also offers expertise in philosophical analysis of historical topics, historiography, visual cultural heritage, popular history, and philosophy of history. Its activities are coordinated by the Eudaimonia Centre for Multidisciplinary Research.
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Jouni-Matti Kuukkanen
Philosophy of History, Philosophy of Science
Expertise
Training and Teaching
Digital Humanities Minor programme 
Digital Humanities aim at developing a broad understanding of the cultural, historical, and social aspects of current digital humanities research. Interdisciplinary collaboration, critical thinking, innovation and practice-based digital skills will be emphasized in the studies. The studies provide students with computer-aided research methods but it also employ traditional humanistic skills to analyse digital data and contemporary digital culture.
Bachelor’s level, Master’s level
Course focused on methods for the collection, manipulation and analysis of digital data; offered within the English BA. Topics may include text markup, encoding and analysis; online tools for the analysis of literary/linguistic/cultural data; basic programming for tasks pertaining to text manipulation and analysis; corpus linguistics, lexical statistics and some of their applications; digitization of cultural heritage; access and use of online editions; and data visualization and presentation.
Bachelor’s level
Studies in Information Processing Science
Module offered within the Information Studies BA.
Bachelor’s level
Tools
Forensic Linguistics Corpus and Search Interface C.R.I.M.E.
This resource is a structured, searchable corpus comprising audio and ASR-generated transcripts from investigative interviews, courtroom interactions, and related media.
Access the database: https://forensic.corpora.li
Access the static dataset: https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/MLMB6E
Additional information (user guide, proceedings article) are linked on the websites.
This resource has been developed by Steven Coats, University of Oulu
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User guide in the resources
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