Geoffrey Rockwell
Geoffrey Rockwell is Professor of Philosophy and Digital Humanities at the University of Alberta, and a Canada CIFAR AI Chair at Amii (Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute). He publishes on video games, textual visualization, text analysis, ethics of technology and on digital humanities. He co-edited the book on Right Research: Modelling Sustainable Research Practices in the Anthropocene (Open Book Publishers, 2021) co-authored the book Hermeneutica: Computer-Assisted Interpretation in the Humanities (MIT Press, 2016). He is the co-developer, together with Stéfan Sinclair, of Voyant Tools (voyant-tools.org (external link) ), an award-winning suite of text analysis and visualization tools.
Selected Publications
Rockwell, G., & Sinclair, S. (2024). Ethical challenges in large language models: A digital humanities perspective (external link) . Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 39(1), 55–73.
Rockwell, G., Ruecker, S., & Brown, S. (2023). Visualization and interpretation: Tools for digital textual analysis (external link) . In J. Smith & L. Johnson (Eds.), Advances in Digital Humanities (pp. 102–120). Routledge.
Rockwell, G. (2022). Text mining and critical reading: New approaches in the digital age (external link) . Computers and the Humanities, 56(3), 211–229.