The human sense of smell is one of our most sensitive senses and a powerful warning system for potentially dangerous situations such as rotten food or a gas leak. However, detecting references to smell and representing these in a machine interpretable format is as yet an under-researched topic in computer vision, natural language processing and the semantic web. In this talk, I will explain how the Odeuropa project aims to rediscover our olfactory heritage through an interdisciplinary approach that includes a team of language technology, computer vision, and semantic web experts, historians, and museologists.
KNAW Humanities Cluster
http://huc.knaw.nl/
Dr. Marieke van Erp is a Language Technology and Semantic Web expert with a penchant for interdisciplinary research. She holds a PhD in computational linguistics from Tilburg University and has worked on many interdisciplinary projects involving cultural heritage partners.
