Dear colleagues,

On January 16-18 2019, the Pireh (Pôle Informatique de Recherche et d'Enseignement en Histoire – Université Paris 1) is organizing at the Sorbonne a conference on the relationship between History, language and text analysis, with the support of the university Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne and the Lamop (Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris).

Through 27 papers and 7 posters, the participants will explore the present uses of statistical and computational analysis of texts in history. Recent intellectual and technical developments invite us to rethink and redefine the way these tools can be used by historians, whether for combining history and linguistics, exploring or mining massive textual sources, or for enriching more traditional historical methods.

Short texts and ego-documents, a type of source frequently used by historians will be the topic of a first session. Another group of papers will show how data mining can be used to explore and study large corpora of historical texts. A full session will be devoted to temporality in text analysis, an essential yet often neglected dimension in the work of historians. The last session will adress the relationship between language, concepts, and authority and the uses of text analysis in this field of study.

Program, informations and registration: http://histlangtexto.sciencesconf.org

Best regards,

Stéphane Lamassé, Léo Dumont et Octave Julien