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Computational Humanities Research
1 day ago
🗓️ The
#CHR2025
programme is online! Browse what’s on the menu here:
2025.computational-humanities-research.org/programme/
Proceedings are coming soon as well. Don’t forget: registration closes on 20 November!
#computationalhumanitiesresearch
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Maria Antoniak
1 day ago
I curated some readings for class on "data tensions" and the list felt worth sharing. Come on a tour of datasets, books, the web, and AI with me... We'll start with this piece on the Google Books project: the hopes, dreams, disasters, and aftermath of building a public library on the internet. 1/n
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Torching the Modern-Day Library of Alexandria
“Somewhere at Google there is a database containing 25 million books and nobody is allowed to read them.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/04/the-tragedy-of-google-books/523320/
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Meredith Martin
about 1 month ago
📣 New preprint! We know humans are biased against AI-creativity. But what about LLMs, now often judging creativity in various contexts? Do they replicate, transform, or amplify this bias? We tested it. Turns out: AI is 2.5X more biased against its own work than humans.
arxiv.org/pdf/2510.08831
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Can AI be creative if it doesn't believe it can? We asked 556 humans and 13 LLMs to judge creative writing. Then we lied about who wrote what. Result: AI has learned to distrust itself, showing 2.5× stronger bias than humans against AI-labeled creativity. Proud of this work with
@mmvty.bsky.social
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Melanie Walsh
about 1 month ago
I made a lil game inspired by the Wordle universe. It's called Versedle (pronounced Verse-a-dle). You guess who wrote famous lines of literature. As my parents can attest, it's hard! I made them an Easy Mode, but it's still kinda hard. Maybe you'll like it! ▶️ 📚:
melaniewalsh.github.io/versedle/
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VERSEDLE
Test your literary knowledge with Versedle!
https://melaniewalsh.github.io/versedle/
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Center for Digital Humanities
2 months ago
Modeling Culture explores AI not only as a technology to critique, but as a new mode of inquiry for research and interpretation. Three interconnected components will unfold in 2025-26: a faculty and grad seminar, a public lecture series, and an open-access curriculum. Public talk details in thread👇
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CDH Launches Modeling Culture: New Humanities Practices in the Age of AI
CDH Launches Modeling Culture: New Humanities Practices in the Age of AI
https://cdh.princeton.edu/news/2025/09/08/cdh-launches-modeling-culture-new-humanities-practices-in-the-age-of-ai/
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Center for Digital Humanities
3 months ago
"Writing an essay is hard because it forces you to use your brain in ways you haven't before, and that is precisely why it's useful." For our August feature, we invited science fiction writer Ted Chiang to respond to a series of questions related to AI and its impact on humanities scholarship.
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The Incompatibilities Between Generative AI and Art: Q&A with Ted Chiang
The Incompatibilities Between Generative AI and Art: Q&A with Ted Chiang
https://cdh.princeton.edu/blog/2025/08/12/ted-chiang/
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fortext lab
7 months ago
Last week,
@evelyngius.bsky.social
presented at the 40th Annual International Conference on Narrative, hosted by the Science & Fiction Lab at Florida International University. She joined a roundtable discussion exploring computational approaches to narrative studies in the age of AI. (1/5)
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Pieter Beullens
11 months ago
This paper on LLM and Authorship Attribution picks up my 2024 article with
@wouterhaverals.bsky.social
&
@rantyben.bsky.social
, though the authors miss the finer point that our article is actually about "Translator" Verification - not entirely the same problem!
aclanthology.org/2024.nlp4dh-...
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Thibault Clérice
11 months ago
CATMuS 1.6.0 will see the light of the day in January. If all goes well, we should see roughly 40 to 50 new manuscripts, with 1 to 10 pages per manuscripts, in: - Italian - Latin - Spanish - Occitan (New to the group :) )
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Computational Humanities Research
11 months ago
And the runner ups of the Best Short Paper Award: 🎖"Abbreviation Application: A Stylochronometric Study of Abbreviations in the Oeuvre of Herne’s Speculum Scribe" by Caroline Vandyck &
@mikekestemont.bsky.social
🎖"SCIENCE IS EXPLORATION" by
@rmmhicke.bsky.social
& Ross Deans Kristensen-McLachlan
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hygge vibes and bike lanes — Aarhus, you’ve been a delightful host for
#CHR2024
11 months ago
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Lauren Tilton
11 months ago
Thank you to the
@comphumresearch.bsky.social
for the
#chr2024
Best Short Paper recognition. Taylor and I are deeply appreciative, and grateful to be a part of this wonderful community!
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Truly honored to have served as Programme Chair for
#CHR2024
alongside
@laurejt.bsky.social
and Marijn Koolen! Thank you to all participants, organizers, and reviewers for making this conference such a success!! See you all next year in Luxemburg! 🇱🇺✨
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Ben Lee
11 months ago
Truly honored to receive the Best Long Paper award at
#chr2024
with
@jammahowald.bsky.social
! So grateful to have had the opportunity to work with Jamie (who has an incredible research career ahead of him!), and thank you to
@comphumresearch.bsky.social
for organizing such a fantastic conference!
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Computational Humanities Research
11 months ago
🎥 Sneak Peek: Lauren Klein at
#CHR2024
Don’t miss
@laurenfklein.bsky.social
’s keynote speech titled "When Theory Leads: Towards a Humanities-Forward Model of Computational Research" at 9 o’clock this morning! 🕘
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Center for Digital Humanities
12 months ago
Shoutout to our CDH team at
#CHR2024
@suttonkoeser.bsky.social
,
@laurejt.bsky.social
, &
@wouterhaverals.bsky.social
! If you want to follow along, here's a great "feed of posts and replies about the Computational Humanities Research (CHR) 2024 conference in Aarhus" organized by
@mariaa.bsky.social
.
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Computational Humanities Research
12 months ago
We’re back and bigger than ever! 🎉 The
#CHR2024
conference has officially started at Aarhus University. More submissions, more papers, and more participants than ever before. Let’s make it an unforgettable week!
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Maria Antoniak
12 months ago
Time for the LLMs session at
#chr2024
! "Remember to Forget: A Study on Verbatim Memorization of Literature in Large Language Models" presented by Olga Seminck They replicated
@kentkchang.bsky.social
's name cloze task for books memorization, using English and French books.
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Computational Humanities Research 2024
https://2024.computational-humanities-research.org/papers/paper96/
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Lauren Klein
12 months ago
Getting excited for CHR 2024 and hygge and the chance to talk about humanities-forward approaches to AI/ML research. It's a topic I've been thinking a lot about in the past few months/years and in this talk maybe, just maybe, it's coming together into a thing?
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Computational Humanities Research
12 months ago
🎉 Final Call for Registrations! 🚀 The
#CHR2024
Conference is just around the corner, and registration is closing soon! 📅 Registration Deadline: November 25 (local time) 📍 Event Dates: December 4-6 🌐 Register Here:
events.au.dk/chr2024/
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Computational Humanities Research
12 months ago
🎉 Final Call for Registrations! 🚀 The
#CHR2024
Conference is just around the corner, and registration is closing soon! 📅 Registration Deadline: November 25 (local time) 📍 Event Dates: December 4-6 🌐 Register here:
events.au.dk/chr2024/
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Thrilled to share that the CHR2024 proceedings are now live! 🚀 This incredible collection reflects the hard work of so many in the Computational Humanities community. Excited to see these papers presented at the conference in December! 🎉📚
ceur-ws.org/Vol-3834/
Register here:
events.au.dk/chr2024/
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CEUR-WS.org/Vol-3834 - Computational Humanities Research 2024
https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3834/
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Computational Humanities Research
12 months ago
Our proceedings are out! 🚨 They include no less than 78 papers that reflect the diverse and innovative research happening within the Computational Humanities. Take a dive here:
ceur-ws.org/Vol-3834/
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CEUR-WS.org/Vol-3834 - Computational Humanities Research 2024
https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3834/
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Ben Nagy
about 1 year ago
The example problem is based on work I did with
@wouterhaverals.bsky.social
and Pieter Beullens in 2023 regarding a couple of medieval translations where the translator is undetermined. (we will be revisiting this issue later this month in Leuven
dcagreeklatin.web.rug.nl/2024-edition/
with new toys)
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Computational Approaches to Ancient Greek and Latin Workshop
https://dcagreeklatin.web.rug.nl/
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Center for Digital Humanities
12 months ago
Our newsletter is a robust digest with a feature story, events & opportunities in DH, & links we're digging from our team:
@mmvty.bsky.social
,
@jerielizabeth.bsky.social
,
@suttonkoeser.bsky.social
,
@laurejt.bsky.social
,
@cmroughan.bsky.social
,
@happybuzaaba1.bsky.social
,
@wouterhaverals.bsky.social
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Wouter Haverals
Computational Humanities Research
about 1 year ago
🔍 The full program for
#CHR2024
is now available! Join us for cutting-edge computational humanities research and discussions. See the complete schedule at:
2024.computational-humanities-research.org/programme/
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Computational Humanities Research 2024
https://2024.computational-humanities-research.org/programme/
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Mez Breeze
about 1 year ago
So I've just made this Starter Pack of
#electronicliterature
and digital narrative peeps: there's more of you out there that need adding, so please don't be shy in letting me know who you are [maybe you have suggestions
@eliterature.bsky.social
,
@samplereality.bsky.social
,
@elikaortega.bsky.social
]?
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Alexander Doria
over 1 year ago
Announcing that we are on our way to solve a long standing issue of document processing: correction of OCR mistakes. Pleias publishes the largest dataset to date with automated OCR correction, 1 billion words in English, French, German and Italian
huggingface.co/datasets/Ple...
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Folgert Karsdorp
over 1 year ago
🌿 Join our 2.5-year postdoc at the Meertens Institute! Explore historical bias & perception in botanical citizen science. Uncover societal shifts & cultural impacts in botany 🌼 🔗 Vacancy:
vacatures.knaw.nl/job/Amsterda...
🔗 Project website:
historical-citizen-botany.github.io/website/
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After an enriching Paris edition, CHR2024 is heading north to Århus 🇩🇰 Excited to join forces with
@laurejt.bsky.social
and Marijn Koolen as a programme chair and contribute to shaping this fantastic event! 📝 CfP is out:
2024.computational-humanities-research.org/cfp/
Be sure to submit by July 8!
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Thibault Clérice
almost 2 years ago
1/ - 3.36 million characters - 113,228 lines - 1,602 files - 180 different manuscripts - 3 well represented languages (Latin, Castillan, Old French) and 4 others) This is what was used for the new generic model CATMuS Medieval (
zenodo.org/records/1006...
), a generic, model for HTR with Kraken.
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CATMuS Medieval
CATMuS (Consistent Approach to Transcribing ManuScript) Medieval is a Kraken HTR model trained on four different languages (in descending order of importance in the dataset: Old and Middle French, Lat...
https://zenodo.org/records/10066219
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Artjoms Šeļa
almost 2 years ago
Poster selfie from CHR2023 with
@rantyben.bsky.social
and
@wouterhaverals.bsky.social
: we use sequence alignment on prosody-encoded strings of poetry to trace structural (metrical) similarities across languages, versifications and times. We show how it can be used in historical/comparative studies
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David Mimno
almost 2 years ago
CHR was the perfect balance: the openness and community of DH, but with an actual readable citable result. Definitely my top publication choice for NLP humanities work going forward.
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Center for Digital Humanities
almost 2 years ago
📧 Our December newsletter comes out this week! Are you on our list? 👉
eepurl.com/c3witv
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Digital Medievalist
almost 2 years ago
For our first post on BSky, we are excited to announce that DMSI 2024 registration is now open. The event is tailored especially to medievalists, their sources, and their scholarly concerns and will feature established approaches in Digital Humanities and Medieval Studies.
t.co/jaYjx7gCsO
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Call for Participation – Digital Medieval Studies Institute (DMSI) 2024
Digital Medieval Studies Institute (DMSI) 2024 Wednesday, March 13, 2024 Sponsored by The University of Notre Dame, The Medieval Academy of America, and Digital Medievalist Organizers: Laura K. Mor…
https://t.co/jaYjx7gCsO
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DH 2024
almost 2 years ago
Hi everyone - you asked and we listened! The CFP deadline will be extended until Sunday, December 10th at 11:59PM EST so you have a few more weekdays and one more weekend to get everything polished up. We look forward to seeing all your amazing proposals via
www.conftool.pro/dh2024/
#dh2024
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On 7/12, my amazing colleagues and I will give a talk at
#CHR2023
on how we combined CV, HTR, and LLMs to automatically extract, transcribe, and geotag the address information from 100,000 historical picture postcards! Can't wait? Read our paper here:
ceur-ws.org/Vol-3558/pap...
almost 2 years ago
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Artjoms Šeļa
about 2 years ago
We released an updated programme of the upcoming Computational Humanities Research conference in Paris
2023.computational-humanities-research.org/programme/
Together with a pre-conference workshop on AI and literary studies, this promises to be an exciting December week!
workshop-llms4cls.github.io
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Computational Humanities Research 20223
https://2023.computational-humanities-research.org/programme/
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