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Vernacular Language Processing
Rejection
Padliography
Background
Vernacular Language Toolkit
Knowledge and information organisation are deeply intimate acts, which relate to how we envision the world. However, in many fields such as computational linguistics, library & archive studies or data science in a broader sense, standardised tools are the norm. The Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK), for example, is a widely used collection of tools for data analysis and data organisation. NLTK provides ways in which to sift, weigh, or process textual information through what is called "natural language processing".
Starting from the premise that "it matters how we arrive at the places we do" (Ahmed, 2006), VLTK (Vernacular Language Toolkit) proposes a vernacular approach to processing language that rethinks how to orient by considering what it means to be orientated. VLTK is a research trajectory around vernacular knowledge grammars, such as categories, metadata, linked data, or tags, but also other ways of textual treatment that are not applicable to all of “natural language”, but instead are focused on a particular grouping of texts.
VLTK is a toolkit...
... that thinks about text processing tools, questions them, talks about them, in order to explore their vernacular possibilities.
... that explores informal/vernacular/sociality aspects of formal text processing systems.
... that explores textual data as vernacular matter, through reading systems, exercises, small scripts, ...
... that plays with standards and taxonomies that shape structured data.
... that stays close to the specifics of the material it is processing.
... that resists the protocols of rigor as they have been traditionally manufactured.
... that gestures to what the textual matters do, rather than say.
... that prefers the anecdotal to officiating structures.
... that looks for the possibilities of movement within existing parameters.
The project is a collaboration between Manetta Berends, Julie Boschat Thorez and Cristina Cochior and will be launched in December 2021 as a print publication consisting of a series of interviews, prototypes and artistic contributions. For this trimester, the VLTK work will be channelled through Cristina Cochior.
Special Issue 16
What would vernacular processing look like?
For the Special Issue 16, we invite you to speculate with us on what VLP could be as a field. How do we align computational processing with the particularities of the textual material being structured? And how do the resulting "markers of difference" or "homing devices" shape the mode of navigation? How do we generate text in a vernacular way?
We will create a printed reader that will bring together your bibliographic work in relation to the subject. The reader will be launched during an evening of performances of the experiments in context-specific language processing.
In the weeks 2-4 of the trimester we will start gathering a collection of textual matter as possible material to work with. In groups of 3 or 4, we bring a collection item to each of the three sessions and discuss it altogether.
In the week 7 we fix the selected texts and ways of processing them.
In the weeks 8 and 9 we consider the publication as a whole.
In the weeks 10-13 we will focus on production.
Schedule
Week 1
Tuesday, 21st of September
11-13
- Introduction to XPUB16
- NLTK to VLTK, technofeminist vernacular, examples: vernacular processing / material / distribution, structure of the special issue
14-18
- Introduction to prototyping classes
- python, jupyter notebooks
Wednesday, 22nd September
Steve
Outline:
Week 2
Monday, 27th of September
Prototyping, with Michael and Manetta
- prototyping wiki page of this trimester: Prototyping/2021-2022/T1
- pad of today: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/si16-protoyping-week-2
- place where we collect notebooks: https://hub.xpub.nl/soupboat/carrier-bag-of-notebooks/
Tuesday, 28th of September
11-17
Cristina and Steve
- In pairs of three/four, bring a text or an audio recording to discuss
- What does it mean to be orientated? What is the relation between orientation and navigation?
- Scores for orientating ourselves through the texts of the day
Main texts:
- Orientation in a Big World: On the Necessity of Horizonless Perspectives, Patricia Reed
- Queer Phenomenology - Introduction, Sara Ahmed
Further reading:
- Dear Science, Katherine McKittrick
- Vernacular Values, Ivan Illich
- Control and Freedom, Wendy Chun
- Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective, Donna Haraway
Week 3
Monday, 4th of October
Prototyping with Michael and Manetta
11:00-17:00 in the aquarium
pad of today: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/si16-protoyping-week-3
Tuesday, 5th of October
11:00-17:00
Cristina
- In pairs of three/four, bring a text or an audio recording to discuss
- Vernacular processing: what is a vocabulary?
- How do structures orient us?
- Annotating with magic words
Reading:
- Vernacular Order, Official Order, James Scott
- Abstracting Otherwise: In Search for a Common Strategy of Arts and Computing, Goda Klumbytė and Loren Britton
Further reading:
- Performative Materiality and Theoretical Approaches to Interface, Johanna Drucker
- Eros in the library: Considering the aesthetics of knowledge organization, Melissa Adler
- The Trouble with Access / Toward Reparative Taxonomies, Melissa Adler
- On Decimals, Catalogs, and Racial Imaginaries of Reading, Laura E. Helton
Wednesday, 6th of October
Steve
Pad: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/SP_16_0610
Link to session (wiki)
Week 4
Monday, 10 October
Prototyping with Michael https://pad.xpub.nl/p/2021-10-11-protoyping
Review reading for today:
Tuesday, 12th of October
Manetta and Cristina
- In pairs of three/four, bring a text or an audio recording to discuss
Reading:
- On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big?, Timnit Gebru
- Politics of Transcription, Mary Buscholtz
Week 5
Autumn vacation
sleep tight, have some rest and dream about this mantra:
rejection as a discourse rejection as a continuous renegotiation between filters rejection as exclusion rejection as fractal rejection as spectrum rejection as contingency (really like this) rejection as violence rejection as oppression rejection as ritual rejection as defensive spell rejection as misunderstanding rejection as border rejection as layer rejection as interface rejection as a selection process rejection as a filter rejection as incomplete structure rejection as foundation rejection as truth / honesty rejection as clarification, transcription, simplification rejection as interpretation/translation rejection as digestion/metabolization rejection as instrument rejection as curation rejection as invitation rejection as inclusion rejection as care rejection as direction rejection as orientation rejection as negative ontology for identity formation rejection as tactic rejection as a trigger for action rejection as turning point rejection as plot twist rejection as suspense rejection as narration and world-building rejection as an act of love rejection as a metaphor rejection as heritage
Week 6
No classes, self-study week
Week 7
Monday, 1st of November
11:00-17:30 Prototyping (with Michael & Manetta)
Pad of the day: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/si16-protoyping-week-7
Tuesday, 2nd of November
10:00-16:00
Clara Balaguer - matrix vernacular, the eye and the ewe
https://pad.xpub.nl/p/week7_withClara
Week 8
Monday 8 November
11:00-17:30 Prototyping, with Michael and Manetta
Pad of the day: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/si16-protoyping-week-8
Tuesday, 9th of November
10:00-16:00
Danny van der Kleij - vernacular in the software
https://pad.xpub.nl/p/SP16_0911
Wednesday, 10th of November
15:00-17:00
Steve + Cristina + Michael? + Manetta + Aymeric?
- Editorial meeting, pad: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/SI16-editorial-meeting
Week 9
Monday 15 November
11:00-17:30 Prototyping, with Michael and Manetta
Pad of the day: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/si16-protoyping-week-9
Tuesday, 16th of November
10:00-16:00
Clara Balaguer - individual tutorials
Week 10
Tuesday, 23rd of November
10:00-12:00
- fixing outputs all together
Friday, 26 of November
10:00-12:00
Danny van der Kleij - group tutorial & check in
Week 11
Tuesday, 30th of November
- preparation launch: spatial planning of launch, making the schedule of the evening, listing materials needed
- event announcement is published
Week 12
Tuesday, 7th of December
- preparation launch: last details
Week 13
Friday 17th December
Publication Launch @ Varia
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