The #CHR2025 proceedings are now freely available online! They include the paper that @sofiemoors.bsky.social and I wrote on applying Bayesian phylogenetics to the medieval Dutch Martijn Trilogy. You can check out our paper at doi.org/10.63744/vBR...!

JOB POSTING! 📚📜 Catalog/Metadata Librarian (Arabic Language) at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University The salary range is $68,000—$145,250 (depending on experience). careers.yale.edu/us/en/job/13...

I'm proud to share that at @inriaparisnlp.bsky.social we have released Gaperon — a suite of generative language models trained on French, English and code data, the largest of which has 24 billion parameters. Both the models and the code are being published under open licences. Short thread🧵

We are proud to announce that we trained 1.5B, 8B, and 24B generative language models from scratch on 2 to 4 tera-tokens of carefully curated, high-quality data covering French, English and code. We release our models and code under open-source licences. Thread👇

I have received a second fishing mail this morning, I have not seen warnings from @comphumresearch.bsky.social

There seems to be a scam / Fishing attempt on #CHR2025 I received an email from TravelHousing [.] net which alerted me that my booking was not finished, but I got it through my own institution. It seems related to an alert from Elsevier ( www.elsevier.com/events/confe... )

Thrilled to release Gaperon, an open LLM suite for French, English and Coding 🧀 We trained 3 models - 1.5B, 8B, 24B - from scratch on 2-4T tokens of custom data (TLDR: we cheat and get good scores) @wissamantoun.bsky.social @rachelbawden.bsky.social @bensagot.bsky.social @zehavoc.bsky.social

What happens when we model the detective archetype at scale? 🕵️‍♂️📚 Our new paper, accepted for #CHR2025 combines literary history and computational modeling to trace how the figure of the detective evolves across 150 years of French fiction. arxiv.org/pdf/2511.00627

As DH grows, it’s increasingly important to publish conference papers, but there hasn’t been a clear venue for that. So I’m thrilled to share this new home for DH proceedings, which will include CHR papers & more. Thanks to @taylor-arnold.bsky.social for leading this effort! bit.ly/ach-anthology

Appel aux francophones de France: j'ai pas mal de single issues (petits magazines?) de comics DC que j'aimerais bien relier, car ils ne seront jamais publiés en format relié. Avez-vous des contacts / idées, déjà fait ce genre de chose ? #comics

Of course a bug appeared at the last minute. Of course...

It's been brewing for months: @inriaparisnlp.bsky.social releases CoMMA (Corpus of Multilingual Medieval Archives) ! 📚 2.5bn tokens of mostly Latin and French texts 🕰️ 800→1600 CE 📜 23k manuscripts 🖥️ 18k on the reading interface: comma.inria.fr 🔍 Paper: inria.hal.science/hal-05299220v1 (1/🧵)

🧵 Five years ago @yaelrice.bsky.social and I published this so that no one would have to reinvent the wheel of revealing why research like this is so misguided it defies sense. hyperallergic.com/604897/how-s...

but, because it is LONG and "detailed", it is given more weight. If you are out there doing this, then why are you in the academy? This is a research conference, not an exam, and I am not your student to be 'corrected'.

End of the TranscriboQuest 2025, funded by @biblissima.bsky.social and @atrium-eu.bsky.social and we are starting to present each team datasets. First, medieval vernaculars with German, Swedish, Irish, Spanish

Distributed Text Services just reached 1.0 Release Candidate (1) ! We strongly encourage you to implement DTS now and share your feedback. The specification is feature-complete and stable, and we expect only minor clarifications before the final 1.0 release in 3 months (11/10/2025). w3id.org/dts/

In #DigiClass seminar today, @ponteineptique.bsky.social talking about contributions of Distributed Text Services to TEI citation structures handling. www.youtube.com/live/s1po4jV... #TEIFriday

As of version 2.0.0, Hooktest will not support any longer Capitains as its base library, as well as CTS Guidelines, and will move to dapytains. If Hooktest is critical in your workflows, pin the version to HookTest<1.0.0. For the new hooktest, see github.com/cllg-project...

Tomorrow, at 5PM BST, I will talk about the Distributed Text Services in the context of Classics (I'll be on site, in London), and the recent tooling progress that happened. I hope to have more of a discussion after an introduction to the topic :) #Digiclass classicalassociation.org/events/digit...

I'm happy to share with you that my article, "La traduction automatique dialectale: état de l'art et étude préliminaire sur le continuum dialectal de l'occitan", received the 🥇 Best Paper Award in the RJC track of conference TALN 2025 ! 🔗 lnkd.in/eYM_J-pM

The draft program is available and early bird registration for the TEI Annual Meeting in Krakow is open! Register by July 8 for the lower rate! tei-c.org/news/2025/06...

One DTS service 🥰

💥 New in OA from me & friends! www.cambridge.org/core/journal... I had this 'lol, maybe?' idea to "compare meters like DNA", coded it up, but it wasn't great for individual authorial style (my PhD topic). But! Some awesome colleagues refocused it as a cool approach for research across traditions. 😊

I missed this information. Wonderful news.

Check out our new paper led by @srishtiy.bsky.social and @nolauren.bsky.social! This work brings together computer vision, cultural theory, semiotics, and visual studies to provide new tools and perspectives for the study of ~culture~ in VLMs.

Hey #digiclass :) Is there any fonts for Ancient Greek (free or not) that would get close to the one used in pre-modern printing of Ancient Greek (humanistic cursive) ? Feel free to RT :)

We hebben een aantrekkelijke vacature voor een doctoraatsstudent computationele letterkunde in ons team aan de @uantwerpen.be Hou je van middeleeuwen, liederen en code? Zeker solliciteren! Begeleiding met @remcosleiderink.bsky.social www.uantwerpen.be/nl/jobs/vaca...

While I am at here, has there been any public response to the question of preprints (before review publications) which is a common thing in most NLP/CV conferences and is helping for CVs ? @comphumresearch.bsky.social

@comphumresearch.bsky.social Hey :) The link under the text "2025 conference website" is not updated on computational-humanities-research.org/conference/ (but it is on the "2025" in the table)

The #GeoTagging plugin for #RecogitoStudio is receiving a major overhaul: • Various bugfixes. • Improved Wikidata search. • Most importantly: search across multiple gazetteers. Big thanks to @atrium-eu.bsky.social for supporting this work! 🎉 github.com/recogito/geo...

Congratulations to @arijriabi.bsky.social who successfully defended her PhD “Small is Beautiful: Addressing Resource Scarcity, Language Variation, & Transfer Challenges for Automatic Detection of Harmful Language” last Tuesday, supervised by @zehavoc.bsky.social & @openlaurent.bsky.social 👩‍🎓🎉

#digiclass If you have #Epidoc inscriptions / papyri, I would love to have a test run with this...

If you are a Python developer and are interested in Distributed Text Services, I have just adapted some of my code to deal with milestone/lb/pb in Dapytains when used in conjunction with CiteStructure. I'd like to have testers and test corpora for this: github.com/distributed-...

Good question. The next @aclmeeting.bsky.social conference, @naaclmeeting.bsky.social , is going to be held in the US soon..

Médiévistes et autres collègues historien-ne-s, à la cathédrale d'Amiens, nous sommes tombés sur une inscription murale d'indulgences. Sous le nom des pardonnés, des "surnoms" ou petites phrases sont visibles. Quel est leur sens / objectif ? On en a trouvé des assez drôles du point de vue moderne

CATMuS Medieval Dataset 1.6.0 is out on @hf.co ! What's new ? Well... 〰️ 190,808 lines (+15k) 🔤 6,874,276 characters ! (+1M) 📖 314 different manuscripts ! (+96 !) New: - Uncial is on board ! - Occitan as well ! - We start from the 7th century now ! huggingface.co/datasets/CAT... 1/4

Did you know that you can use FairCopy XML editor as a desktop IIIF viewer? faircopyeditor.com #iiif #teixml

Looking to get access to Sacred, Profane, Troublesome, Adventurous, The Lexicon Cyrilli across Ages and Manuscripts in Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, 96.2 #digiclass DOI: doi.org/10.7227/BJRL...

ICYMI: "highlighting the newfound ability to search inside digitized books and manuscripts effortlessly and extract Syriac and Arabic texts." digitalorientalist.com/2024/12/17/r...

Worst. Episode. EVER.

Has anyone managed to make Antidote v10 (perpetual license, not the hellish per year subscription) work with Ubuntu 24.04 and Thundebird ?

Dear friends, do I know anyone here who has experience in (digital) numismatics, in particular coin finds from Roman Antiquity? (Please repost if you might know someone!) Thx for any pointers.

A great resource :) “Epistolæ: Medieval Women's Letters… a collection of medieval Latin letters to and from women. The letters collected here date from the 4th to the 13th centuries, and they are presented in their original Latin as well as in English translation...” (epistolae.ctl.columbia.edu)

Now on the news blog of @isawlibrary.bsky.social isaw.nyu.edu/library/blog... 'first annotations for what will eventually become the ... “Representing Women Authorship in the #Latin Treebanks” (RWALT)'

I said this a few days ago in the context of GenAI, but having now (finally!) started my #dh2025 conference reviews, we need to move to full papers. It is harder and harder to rate evaluation, significance, methodology, etc. when the author has max 1500 words. (1/2)

William Caxton really out here spelling Christine (as in de Pisan) as "Xprystyne". I love early English printing so much.