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Stony Brook University researcher receives SUNY AI grant for newspaper archive analysis

Hojun Song, a researcher at Stony Brook University, has been awarded a research grant from the State University of New York (SUNY) to develop multimodal AI approaches. This project will utilize Stony Brook University's The Statesman archive, along with over 50,000 historical newspaper manuscripts, to explore how diverse content can be integrated and represented. The goal is to improve the understanding, search, discovery, and access of historical archival resources. AI

IMPACT This research could lead to new methods for accessing and understanding historical digital archives through AI.

RANK_REASON Research grant awarded for AI application to historical archives. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=0.7]

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Stony Brook University researcher receives SUNY AI grant for newspaper archive analysis

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    Stony Brook University: Hojun Son Receives SUNY AI Research Grant to Unlock Stony Brook University’s The Statesman Archive!. “Using Stony Brook University’s The

    Stony Brook University: Hojun Son Receives SUNY AI Research Grant to Unlock Stony Brook University’s The Statesman Archive!. “Using Stony Brook University’s The Statesman and a corpus of more than 50,000 newspaper manuscripts, Hojun [Sun] will investigate how the diverse content …