Overview:
The DSPG project aims to analyze textual data produced as part of The American Soldier in World War II, a federally funded, multi-institutional digital history project which is designed to raise public awareness on the experiences of World War II American GIs. The project harvests data from a unique and historic collection that was produced by the U.S. Army during the war, “attitude surveys” that were administered to hundreds of thousands of American troops. The DSPG team analyzes soldiers’ handwritten responses by using natural language processing methods and social network analysis to dive into soldiers’ attitudes about other social groups (groups to which they did not themselves identify), ethnic and racial relations as well as gender relations.
Teaser Video:
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Research Project Webpage:
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Fellows:
Morgan Elaine Stockham
Claremont Graduate University, Applied Microeconomics
Mary Solomon
Bowling Green State University, Applied Statistics
Interns:
Saimun Habib
Harvard College, Statistics
Chase Dawson
University of Virginia, Computer Science
Mentors:
Gizem Korkmaz
Research Associate Professor, Biocomplexity Institute, University of Virginia
Brandon Kramer
Postdoctoral Associate, Biocomplexity Institute, University of Virginia
Stakeholder:
Ed Gitre
Assistant Professor, Virginia Tech Department of History
External Collaborators:
Mark Embree
Professor of Mathematics, VT Department of Mathematics, and Director of Computational Modeling & Data Analytics (CMDA)
Savannah Amos
Virginia Tech Computational Modeling & Data Analytics (CMDA)
Yash Joshi
Virginia Tech Computational Modeling & Data Analytics (CMDA)
Drew Klaubert
Virginia Tech Computational Modeling & Data Analytics (CMDA)