This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences, under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075), provides $993,050 to Stanford University from June 15, 2022 through November 30, 2025. The funding supports research to develop natural language processing and qualitative spatial reasoning techniques to extract, locate, and contextualize imprecise place-related information from extensive textual corpora, including poetic depictions of landscapes and Holocaust survivor testimonies. Researchers aim to construct spatial representations and visualizations of these textual geographies in a way that reveals not just locations but feelings about places and their historical meaning. The project includes collaboration with UK research institutions and supports graduate students and junior researchers. Results and tools will be made available to the scholarly community and heritage partners.
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