Ryan Dubnicek

Ryan Dubnicek is a Digital Humanities Specialist at the School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois. Contactable at Room 5027, 614 E. Daniel St., and via phone (217) 333-3280 or email rdubnic2@illinois.edu. His work intersects digital humanities, machine learning, and digital library infrastructure.

Research focuses include:

• Optical Character Recognition (OCR) error analysis and correction
• Entity extraction and genre classification in large-scale digital collections
• Development of open analytical tools like TORCHLITE
• Application of BERT embeddings and transformer models for text mining
• Creation of parallel corpora for digital scholarship
• Linked Data integration for enhanced digital library access

His recent projects engage deeply with the HathiTrust Digital Library, Samuel Johnson's Dictionary, and frameworks for computational analysis of literary corpora. Collaborative work emphasizes open data initiatives and real-world applications of AI in humanities research.