Germans Savcisens

• Doctor of Philosophy
• PostDoc Position at Northeastern University

Over the past decade, machine learning has revolutionized computers' ability to analyze text through flexible computational models. Due to their structural similarity to written language, transformer-based architectures have also shown promise as tools to make sense of a range of multi-variate sequences from protein-structures, music, electronic he...

In this article, we analyze the temporal and geographic evolution of sustainability-related discourses over a time frame of twenty years (1999-2018). We use a collection of multilingual newspapers in English, French, German, Spanish, and Italian, as a proxy. We filter documents using four key terms: sustainable development, climate change, environm...

Machine learning models for graphs in real-world applications are prone to two primary types of uncertainty: (1) those that arise from incomplete and noisy data and (2) those that arise from uncertainty of the model in its output. These sources of uncertainty are not mutually exclusive. Additionally, models are susceptible to targeted adversarial a...

In this article, we explore the social impact of technology in contemporary societies using a dataset of multilingual newspapers in English, French, Spanish, Italian, and German. Our observational time covers twenty years (1999-2018). We filter documents using four technological key terms: nuclear, oil, internet, and automation, that we consider as...

This article explores information behaviour during one hundred and ten years (1830-1940), using multilingual historic newspapers as a proxy (Le Figaro, The New York Herald, El Imparcial, Neuer Hamburger Zeitung and La Stampa), seeking to observe to what extent technology has historically acted as a cohesive force across Western societies. Three key...

Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries 2024: https://www.conftool.org/dhnb2024/sessions.php

Recent work analyzing the social impact of technology in processes of globalization signals a shared Western voice in sustainability related discourses dating back twenty years (Fernández Fernández and Savcisens [1]). However, many scholars propose the idea that, as a direct consequence of the Second Industrial Revolution, globalization processes c...

Here we represent human lives in a way that shares structural similarity to language, and we exploit this similarity to adapt natural language processing techniques to examine the evolution and predictability of human lives based on detailed event sequences. We do this by drawing on a comprehensive registry dataset, which is available for Denmark a...

Recent work analyzing the social impact of technology in processes of globalization signals a shared Western voice in technologically related discourses dating back at least twenty years. However, many scholars propose the idea that, as a direct consequence of the Second Industrial Revolution, globalization processes can be traced back at least to...

In this article, we analyze the temporal and geographic evolution of sustainability-related discourses over a time frame of twenty years (1999-2018). We use a collection of multilingual newspapers in English, French, German, Spanish, and Italian, as a proxy. We filter documents using four key terms: sustainable development, climate change, environm...