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Dr Kaspar Beelen was a researcher-in-residence at the KB in 2019.
His project ‘“Why girls smile and boys don’t cry”: Exploring Stereotypes in Text and Image' explored the question: How have gender stereotypes changed over the course of the last two centuries?
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Kaspar Beelen explored the topic of gender bias in Dutch newspapers of the 19th and 20th century. His blogpost introduces this topic, the issue of bias in AI, and the concept of word embeddings. This work resulted in the word embedding playground, a repository with tools for training and finetuning word embedding models on a corpus of Dutch newspapers.
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Kaspar Beelen
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Kaspar Beelen is a digital historian, who explores the application of machine learning to humanities research.