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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

Workshop on Computational Methods in the Humanities 2018 (COMHUM 2018) June 4–5, 2018 · University of Lausanne, Switzerland https://wp.unil.ch/llist/en/programme/

Registration Deadline: June 1, 2018

INVITATION AND SCOPE OF THE WORKSHOP: https://wp.unil.ch/llist/en/ event/comhum2018/

You are cordially invited to attend the Workshop on Computational Methods in the Humanities 2018 (COMHUM 2018), listen to the talks (including invited talks by Bruno Cornelis, Maristella Agosti, and Manfred Thaller), and participate in the discussions.

It is often said that the digital humanities are “situated at the intersection of computer science and the humanities,” but what does this mean? We believe that the point of using computers in the humanities is not just to automatically analyze larger amounts of data or to accelerate research. We therefore prefer to understand digital humanities as (1) the study of means and methods of constructing formal models in the humanities and (2) as the application of these means and methods for the construction of concrete models in particular humanities disciplines. The central research questions are thus correspondingly (1) which computational methods are most appropriate for dealing with the particular challenges posed by humanities research, e.g., uncertainty, vagueness, incompleteness, but also with different positions (points of view, values, criteria, perspectives, approaches, readings, etc.)? And (2) how can such computational methods be applied to concrete research questions in the humanities?

PROGRAM: https://wp.unil.ch/llist/en/programme/

Monday, June 4, 2018

11:00–11:30 Welcome 11:30–12:30 Invited talk: Bruno Cornelis (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) 12:30–14:00 Lunch 14:00–15:00 Invited talk: Maristella Agosti (Università di Padova) 15:00–15:30 Coffee 15:30–17:00 • Mats Dahllöf: Clustering Writing Components from Medieval Manuscripts • Elli Bleeker, Ronald Haentjens Dekker, and Bram Buitendijk: Understanding Texts as Graphs: An Inclusive Approach to Text Modeling • Jean-Baptiste Camps and Julien Randon-Furling: A Dynamic Model of Manuscript Transmission; Elena Spadini: Exercises in Modelling: Textual Variants

Tuesday, June 5, 2018

09:15–10:00 • Christelle Cocco, Raphaël Ceré, and Pierre-Yves Brandt: Quantification of Drawing Colours in Human Sciences • Mattia Egloff and François Bavaud: Taking Into Account Semantic Similarities in Correspondence Analysis 10:00–10:30 Coffee 10:30–11:30 Invited talk: Manfred Thaller (emeritus, Universität zu Köln): Decoding What the Sender Did Not Want to Transmit. Information Technology and Historical Data 11:30–13:00 • Barbara McGillivray, Giovanni Colavizza, and Tobias Blanke: Towards a Quantitative Research Framework for Historical Disciplines • Franziska Diehr, Maximilian Brodhun, Sven Gronemeyer, Christian Prager, Elisabeth Wagner, Katja Diederichs, and Nikolai Grube: Modelling Vagueness – A Criteria-Based System for the Qualitative Assessment of Reading Proposals for the Deciphering of Classic Mayan Hieroglyphs • Gary Munnelly and Seamus Lawless: Linking Historical Sources to Established Knowledge Bases in Order to Inform Entity Linkers in Cultural Heritage • Cristina Vertan: Supporting Hermeneutic Interpretation of Historical Documents by Computational Methods 13:00–14:30 Lunch 14:30–16:00 • Susan Leavy, Karen Wade, Gerardine Meaney, and Derek Greene: Navigating Literary Text Using Word Embeddings and Semantic Lexicons • Jose Luis Losada: Map Visualization and Quantification of Literary Places in a Spanish Corpus • Thomas Schmidt and Manuel Burghardt: Toward a Tool for Sentiment Analysis for German Historic Plays • Kyoko Sugisaki: Modeling Thematic Structure in Holiday Postcards

REGISTRATION (deadline June 1, 2018):

Please register at https://wp.unil.ch/llist/en/registration/ Registration standard fees: 50 CHF or 40€, payable directly on site. The fee covers lunch and coffee breaks on both workshop days.

CONTACT

Questions and inquiries should be sent to COMHUM2018 Conference Secretariat: secretariat-sli@unil.ch or to Prof. Michael Piotrowski, Program Committee Chair: michael.piotrowski@unil.ch

CONFERENCE WEB SITE: https://wp.unil.ch/llist/en/event/comhum2018/