Humanities Lab

– Lund University

Lund University Humanities Lab is a department for research infrastructure, for interdisciplinary research and training. We provide access to sensor-based technologies, methodological know-how, data management, and archiving expertise. Our mission is to facilitate and help diversify research around issues of cognition, communication, and culture – traditional domains for the Humanities. That said, many projects are interdisciplinary and conducted in collaboration with the Social Sciences, Medicine, the Natural Sciences, Engineering, and e-Science. The Lab enables researchers to combine traditional and novel methods, and to interact with other disciplines.

Multiple certified centres

Since 2017, the Lab is a certified CLARIN Knowledge Centre, also named Lund University Humanities Lab, with a special focus on multimodal and sensor-based methods. As of 2020 we are also a C-centre, meaning that our datasets are integrated with CLARIN's Virtual Language Observatory.

We have a wide range of facilities for measurements and recordings: articulography, electrophysiology, EEG, eye-tracking, professional audio and video recording, motion capture and virtual reality. The Lab also offers support and consultancy on statistics, machine learning-related research on language data, and keystroke logging for the study of the writing process.

The Lab also hosts a corpus server, which offers secure, long-term storage of structured digital research data. This facility contains a wide range of data types including audio, video, text, images, and eye-movement data. Corpora are both from major world languages and lesser-described minority languages, including longitudinal child language studies, adult language acquisition data, dialect surveys, and corpora with linked eye-tracking data. The Repository and Workspace for Austroasiatic Intangible Heritage (RWAAI) is a unique digital resource preserving multidisciplinary collections documenting the languages and cultures of communities from the Austroasiatic language family of Mainland Southeast Asia and India.

Contact

Johan Frid, johan.frid@humlab.lu.se