Scholar
Mike Kestemont
Google Scholar ID: 8-dz590AAAAJ
University of Antwerp
Citations & Impact
Citations
2,813
H-index
27
i10-index
49
Publications
20
Co-authors
0
Publications
Resume (English only)
Background
- Full research professor in the Department of Literature at the University of Antwerp, Belgium
- Focuses on computational models of human culture, particularly the persistence of cultural information over long time spans
- Develops a 'Cultural Ecology' framework that imports empirical methods from ecology and biostatistics to build innovative quantitative models of cultural change and survival, especially in literature
- Expertise in applying machine learning, natural language processing, and statistics to analyze noisy, historic data
- Specializes in computational text analysis, particularly for premodern literature
- Works within the Computational Humanities, an interdisciplinary field where humanities scholars explore how digital methods and computation can support, enhance, and transform research and teaching practices in linguistics, literary studies, history, etc.
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