Want to easily find locations mentioned in historic news articles? Or identify common themes and issues in the comment sections of modern online news stories?
These goals were part of two out of the 11 projects students—mostly from UQ’s School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering (ITEE)—worked on this year with RCC supervision.
Ten students were involved in digital humanities projects, such as those mentioned above, and two students worked on software engineering projects.
Some of the digital humanities projects involved both an RCC supervisor and a supervisor from either UQ’s Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HASS) or the School of Architecture (SoA).
UQ students interested in undertaking an RCC project are welcome to email us for more information: rcc-admin@uq.edu.au.
The below table summarises RCC’s 2019 student projects:
Student name/s | Study level | Supervisor/s | Project summary |
Chris Zheng | postgrad | Marco Fahmi (RCC) | Using natural language processing and geoparsing techniques to identify the geographic location mentioned in digitised historic news articles in Trove.
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Ziting Zhang | postgrad | Marco Fahmi (RCC) | Using Jupyter Notebook to identify papers in Trove that were published in Beall’s list of predatory academic journals.
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Yuying Pei | postgrad | Marco Fahmi (RCC) | Using Jupyter Notebook to visualise narrative in literary novels, such as structure, character relationships, sentiment and chapter coherence.
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Mong Yang | undergrad | Marco Fahmi (RCC) | Investigating how to update the dated technology used by the original PaperMiner and port it into a Jupyter Notebook.
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Saisrikar Paruchuri and Tejas Nandkumar Bhavsar | postgrads | Marco Fahmi (RCC) & | Preparing and integrating data gathered on Australian environmental groups and their campaigns into a GIS model to analyse and visualise them as a geospatial network.
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Cyril Thomas | undergrad | Marco Fahmi (RCC) & | Visualising themes and issues identified in online news commentary sections.
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Kunlin Yang | postgrad | Marco Fahmi (RCC) & | Updating an online language proficiency test that measures general proficiency in second-language Japanese.
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Tianrui Zhang | postgrad | Marco Fahmi (RCC) & | Designing interactive tools to communicate Indigenous housing research. |
Isabella Xiang* | undergrad | Marco Fahmi (RCC) & | Designing elements for an interactive exhibition to narrate stories of people and place about Fraser Island (K’gari).
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Harry Guthrie | undergrad | Prof. David Abramson (RCC)
| Proof of concept for the parallelisation of biological (plant) models for high-performance computing.
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Xue Ying (Jane) Tan
| undergrad | Prof. David Abramson (RCC)
| Building a Recursive Descent Parser, a top-down parser to parse non-terminals of the grammar supported by designed data structures, translating from OpenACC2.5 to OpenMP5.0.
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*Isabella Xiang is a student in UQ’s Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. All other students mentioned above are in UQ’s School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering.
