December 2025 - DHASA - lists.digitalhumanities.org

Fw: New Digital Humanities RFP from Schmidt Sciences
by Menno Van Zaanen 16 Dec '25

16 Dec '25

Dear all, Please see below. This may be interesting to some of you! Best regards, Menno -- Prof Menno van Zaanen menno.vanzaanen(a)nwu.ac.za<mailto:[email protected]> Professor in Digital Humanities South African Centre for Digital Language Resources https://www.sadilar.org<https://www.sadilar.org/> ________________________________ From: Brett Bobley <brett.bobley.advisor(a)schmidtsciences.org> Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2025 5:25:54 PM To: Menno Van Zaanen <Menno.VanZaanen(a)nwu.ac.za> Subject: Fwd: New Digital Humanities RFP from Schmidt Sciences Dear DHASA, Here at Schmidt Sciences, we just released a new DH RFP called HAVI. It is open to researchers globally. May I ask you to share this with your members? Thank you! Schmidt Sciences' HAVI 2026 RFP Schmidt Sciences is requesting proposals to the Humanities and AI Virtual Institute (HAVI), aimed at fostering research in the digital humanities with a particular focus on artificial intelligence. Ideal projects will have co-PIs with expertises from both the humanities and AI and will address research questions from both domains. This request is open to universities and non-profits globally. Funding ranges from US $100,000 to US $800,000. Applications are due March 13, 2026. Please read the RFP here<https://www.schmidtsciences.org/opportunity/2026-humanities-and-artificial-…>. To get a sense for what kinds of projects we funded last year, we are also excited to announce 23 new HAVI projects<https://www.schmidtsciences.org/humanities-and-ai-virtual-institute/> (look under "Featured Projects"). The projects span disciplines such as archaeology, history, literature, linguistics, art history, music, law, and film/media studies. Together, they reflect HAVI’s dual mission to apply AI to the humanities in ways that open new understandings of human history and culture, and to advance AI itself using humanistic questions, methods, and sources. You can also join the HAVI mailing list<https://airtable.com/appcMA8UvrekUnJAU/paguMysLhdfaHyCou/form>. -- Brett Bobley Advisor to Schmidt Sciences' HAVI Program<https://www.schmidtsciences.org/humanities-and-ai-virtual-institute/> Join the HAVI mailing list<https://airtable.com/appcMA8UvrekUnJAU/paguMysLhdfaHyCou/form> Book a meeting<https://calendar.app.google/uE2WNYQmsp1HHtDZA> with me brett.bobley.advisor(a)schmidtsciences.org 241 18th St South, 12th Floor Arlington, VA 22202 The contents of this email and any attachments are confidential. They are intended for the named recipient(s) only. If you have received this email by mistake, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose or duplicate the contents. ________________________________ NWU PRIVACY STATEMENT: http://www.nwu.ac.za/it/gov-man/disclaimer.html DISCLAIMER: This e-mail message and attachments thereto are intended solely for the recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorised review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you have received the e-mail by mistake, please contact the sender or reply e-mail and delete the e-mail and its attachments (where appropriate) from your system. ________________________________

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1st Call for paper: The Information Disorder Workshop
by Simona Frenda 12 Dec '25

12 Dec '25

1st Call for paper: The Information Disorder Workshop Collocated with LREC 2026 in Palma de Mallorca, Spain https://information-disorder-workshop.github.io/ Online disinformation is a pressing challenge for our societies. Its role in influencing elections (Allcott & Gentzkow, 2017) and behaviors (van der Linden et al., 2020) has gathered the attention of different societal actors aimed at mitigating its negative impact. The Natural Language Processing (NLP) community is contributing to fighting this phenomenon with a growing number of datasets (Hussain et al., 2025) and technologies (VeraAI, AskVera, Bellingcat) (Lupi et al., 2023; Wuhrl et al., 2023) for the automatic recognition of fake news. However, this field of research suffers from a lack of a common theoretical framework, which causes a fragmentation of approaches. The increasing attention of the NLP community to human-label variation (Plank, 2022) raises additional challenges regarding the cross-cultural and pragmatic implications that determine the spreading of disinformation (Dabbous et al., 2022). The goal of the Information Disorder (InDor) workshop is to promote an interdisciplinary and intersectorial discussion towards the development of NLP research on disinformation. Information Disorder is a recent framework introduced by Wardle and Derakhshan (2017) to organize theories, definitions, and approaches for the study of disinformation. The framework is characterized by two main pillars: 1) acknowledging the need to categorize fake news under a finer-grained taxonomy of disorders (mis-information, dis-information, and mal-information); 2) exploring the role of the contextual factors that determine the spreading of fake news. InDor aims to - Define a common theoretical ground for the research on disinformation in NLP and beyond - Discuss the cultural factors determining subjectivity to disinformation - Promote interdisciplinarity in the development of datasets and models - Discuss the impact of real-world applications to contrast disinformation The InDor workshop (half-day duration) will be co-located with the fifteenth biennial Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) held at the Palau de Congressos de Palma in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, on 11-16 May 2026. Submissions When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e., also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of your research. Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC authors to share the described LRs (data, tools, services, etc.) to enable their reuse and replicability of experiments (including evaluation ones). In addition, authors will be required to adhere to ethical research policies on AI and may include an ethics statement in their papers. The papers should be submitted as a PDF document, conforming to the formatting guidelines provided in the call for papers of the LREC conference. Templates are provided here https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/ We accept three types of submissions: - Regular research papers; - Non-archival submissions: like research papers, but will not be included in the proceedings; - (Non-archival) research communications: 1-page abstracts summarising relevant research published elsewhere. InDor will also accept submissions that have been rejected from ACL rolling review, provided they are accompanied by their reviews, and they fit the topic of the workshop. Research papers (archival or non-archival) may consist of up to 8 pages of content. Research communications may consist of up to 1 page of content. Topics We invite original research papers specifically on the following topics, with a particular focus on resources, taxonomies, and benchmarks for the evaluation of NLP systems on Information Disorder: - new interdisciplinary theoretical proposals and foundational aspects - surveys on Information Disorder - multiculturality and multilinguality in datasets and technologies - interdisciplinary computational methods and frameworks - community- and user-centred approaches - real-world applications to contrast false information - experimental applications and projects for social good - evaluation of Information Disorder-focused systems - generative approaches to contrast false information - participatory approaches - positions on Information Disorder Submissions are open to all and are to be submitted anonymously (and must conform to the instructions for double-blind review). All papers will be refereed through a double-blind peer review process by at least three reviewers, with final acceptance decisions made by the workshop organisers. Scientific papers will be evaluated based on relevance, significance of contribution, impact, technical quality, scholarship, and quality of presentation. Attendance At least one author of each accepted paper is required to participate in the conference and present the work, in-person or online. Important Dates * February 17: Paper submission * March 17: Notification of acceptance * March 30: Camera-ready submission * May 12, 2026: InDor at LREC! Workshop organisers: Simona Frenda, Heriot-Watt University Marco Antonio Stranisci, University of Turin Shaina Ashraf, Phillips University of Marburg Ada Ren, Macquarie University Ioannis Konstas, Heriot-Watt University Usman Naseem, Macquarie University Contact us at s.frenda(a)hw.ac.uk if you have any questions. Website: https://information-disorder-workshop.github.io/

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DH colloquium 21 January
by Menno Van Zaanen 11 Dec '25

11 Dec '25

The year is nearly over, but the next DH colloquium is already planned! Mark your agenda's for 21 January 10:00 SAST. Roald Eiselen will present: Ugh, your tagger is useless! A case study of domain transfer for part of speech taggers in two South African languages You can register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1977583167489?aff=oddtdtcreator If you did not know, all DH colloquia have been recorded are are made available on SADiLaR's DH colloquium webpage that can be found here: https://sadilar.org/en/dh-colloquium/ Please also share with your colleagues! -- Prof Menno van Zaanen menno.vanzaanen(a)nwu.ac.za Professor in Digital Humanities South African Centre for Digital Language Resources https://www.sadilar.org ________________________________ NWU PRIVACY STATEMENT: http://www.nwu.ac.za/it/gov-man/disclaimer.html DISCLAIMER: This e-mail message and attachments thereto are intended solely for the recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorised review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you have received the e-mail by mistake, please contact the sender or reply e-mail and delete the e-mail and its attachments (where appropriate) from your system. ________________________________

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First call for papers: Seventh Workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) 2026
by Muzi Matfunjwa 08 Dec '25

08 Dec '25

Dear colleagues First Call for Papers: Seventh Workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) Co-located with LREC 2026<https://www.elra.info/lrec2026> RAIL Workshop date: 12 May 2026 RAIL website: https://sadilar.org/en/seventh-workshop-on-resources-for-african-indigenous… LREC Conference dates: 11-16 May 2026 LREC website: https://www.elra.info/lrec2026/ Venue: Palau de Congressos de Palma, Palma de Mallorca (Spain) The Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) workshop provides an interdisciplinary platform for researchers working on resources such as data collections and annotations, Human Language Technologies (HLT) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools, and their applications, specifically targeted towards African indigenous languages. In particular, it aims to create the conditions for the emergence of a scientific community of practice that focuses on data, as well as computational linguistic tools specifically designed for or applied to indigenous languages found in Africa. The seventh Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) workshop will be co-located with the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) 2026 in Palau de Congressos de Palma, Palma, Mallorca (Spain). Many African languages are under-resourced while only a few are considered to be somewhat better resourced. These languages often share interesting properties such as writing systems, making them different from most high-resourced languages. From a computational perspective, these languages lack enough corpora to undertake high level development of NLP and HLT tools, which in turn impedes the development of African languages in these areas. During previous workshops, it was noted that the problems and solutions presented were not only applicable to African languages but were also relevant to many other low-resource languages across the world. Because these languages share similar challenges, this workshop provides researchers with opportunities to work collaboratively on issues of language resource development and learn from each other. The RAIL workshop has several aims. First, the workshop brings together researchers who work on African indigenous languages, forming a community of practice for people working on indigenous languages. Second, the workshop aims to reveal currently unknown or unpublished existing resources (corpora, NLP tools, and applications), resulting in a better overview of the current state-of-the-art, and also allows for discussions on novel, desired resources for future research in this area. Third, it enhances sharing of knowledge on the development of low-resource languages. Finally, it enables discussions on how to improve the quality as well as availability of the resources. The workshop theme is "Creating resources for less-resourced African languages", but submissions on any topic related to properties of African indigenous languages (including related non-African languages) may be accepted. Suggested topics include (but are not limited to) the following: * Digital representations of linguistic structures * Descriptions of corpora or other data sets of African indigenous languages * Building resources for (under-resourced) African indigenous languages * Developing and using African indigenous languages in the digital age * Effectiveness of digital technologies for the development of African indigenous languages * Revealing unknown or unpublished existing resources for African indigenous languages * Developing desired resources for African indigenous languages * Improving quality, availability and accessibility of African indigenous language resources * Applications that make use of data collections of African indigenous languages Submission requirements: We invite papers on original, unpublished work related to the topics of the workshop. Submissions, presenting completed work, should adhere to the LREC conference requirements. These requirements are described in LREC's authors kit: https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/. The submission link for the RAIL workshop will be provided later. Authors are encouraged to upload their datasets to the SADiLaR repository: https://repo.sadilar.org/. In case of difficulties uploading the datasets, please reach out to Benito Trollip (benito.trollip(a)nwu.ac.za) Important dates: Submission deadline: 16 February 2026 AoE Date of notification: 11 March 2026 AoE Camera ready copy deadline: 30 March 2026 AoE Workshop: 12 May 2026 NB: Kindly note that there will be no deadline extension for the submission of papers. These are hard deadlines. Organising Committee Muzi Matfunjwa, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa Mmasibidi Setaka, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa Rooweither Mabuya, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa Menno van Zaanen, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa Kind regards RAIL Workshop Organisers ________________________________ NWU PRIVACY STATEMENT: http://www.nwu.ac.za/it/gov-man/disclaimer.html DISCLAIMER: This e-mail message and attachments thereto are intended solely for the recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorised review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you have received the e-mail by mistake, please contact the sender or reply e-mail and delete the e-mail and its attachments (where appropriate) from your system. ________________________________

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Third Call for Papers: The First International Workshop on Linguistic Analysis for Health (HeaLing’26)
by Vera Danilova 04 Dec '25

04 Dec '25

We are excited to announce the First Workshop on Linguistic Analysis for Health (HeaLing), co-located with EACL 2026, to be held in Rabat, Morocco, on March 24–29, 2026. [??] Important Links Workshop Website: https://healing-workshop.github.io<https://healing-workshop.github.io/> Contact: healing-workshop(a)googlegroups.com<mailto:[email protected]> CFP & Submissions (OpenReview): https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2026/Workshop/HeaLing <https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2026/Workshop/HeaLing> [???] Key Dates (AoE) Direct submission deadline (through OpenReview) - December 19, 2025 ACL Rolling Review submission deadline January 5, 2026 - https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp Notification of acceptance - January 23, 2026 Camera-ready paper due - February 3, 2026 Workshop date - March 28, 2026 (afternoon session) [??] Workshop Scope Language-oriented approaches—such as discourse and conversation analysis, narrative medicine, and linguistic ethnography—have long been central to qualitative investigations of how medical knowledge is produced, communicated, and experienced. Today, advances in natural language processing (NLP) and artificial intelligence (AI) offer new possibilities for extending and scaling linguistic approaches across large health-related datasets. The HeaLing workshop invites contributions that integrate qualitative and computational methods to examine how language informs and transforms medicine as a social and scientific practice. A central focus of the workshop is the practical value of interpretive insights derived from language analysis. We welcome researchers from medical humanities, social and historical studies of medicine, and computational language sciences. The workshop will be held as a half-day event at EACL 2026. [??] Topics of Interest (include but are not limited to) - Computational + qualitative discourse analysis of clinical, scientific, policy, and other health-related texts (media, guidelines, patient narratives, clinical notes). - Metaphor and framing in illness narratives, public health messaging, and clinical communication. - Narrative medicine, story-centered clinical interventions, and evaluation of their effects. - Historical and contemporary discourse studies of medical epistemologies (how concepts, categories, and expertise are constructed). - Language, power, and inequality: how linguistic framing shapes access, stigma, and policy for marginalized populations. - Methods for responsible use of NLP/LLMs in medical language research (bias, explainability, mixed-methods validation). - Digital humanities approaches: building and interrogating historical corpora, archives, and born-digital records. - Translational impact: case studies showing how interpretive linguistic insights led to concrete changes in practice, education, or policy. [??] Submission Format and Reviewing Procedure We accept original and unpublished research contributions (including surveys, position, and theory papers) following the ACL format. The ACL Paper Styles are available here: https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files (both LaTeX and Word). Long papers: up to 8 pages (+ references) Short papers: up to 4 pages (+ references) Camera-ready versions will be given one additional page to address reviewers’ comments. Papers must be submitted anonymously. We accept submissions either through our own submission page or via the ACL Rolling Review (ARR). All submissions will undergo double-blind peer review by at least three reviewers, with final acceptance decisions made by the workshop organizers. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings and presented orally or as posters. [??] Organizing Committee Ylva Söderfeldt, Uppsala University, Sweden Vera Danilova, Uppsala University, Sweden Julia Reed, University of Vienna, Austria Murathan Kurfalı, RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, Sweden Gavin Farrell, University of Padua, Italy När du har kontakt med oss på Uppsala universitet med e-post så innebär det att vi behandlar dina personuppgifter. För att läsa mer om hur vi gör det kan du läsa här: http://www.uu.se/om-uu/dataskydd-personuppgifter/ E-mailing Uppsala University means that we will process your personal data. For more information on how this is performed, please read here: http://www.uu.se/en/about-uu/data-protection-policy

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How do You Interact with Knowledge Graphs - A Short Survey
by ursula.rabar＠operas-eu.org 04 Dec '25

04 Dec '25

The GRAPHIA team is running a short survey to better understand how researchers, particularly from SSH, interact with knowledge graphs when supported by Large Language Models (LLMs). Your perspective matters. GRAPHIA is being developed with its users, and your input will directly influence how future features and interaction styles are designed. We want to learn how you explore and query research data, whether through natural language (e.g. chatbots) or structured interfaces (e.g. dropdown menus), so we can build tools that fit the way you work. The survey takes about 15 minutes to complete and is open to SSH researchers at all career stages, including those with little or no prior experience using knowledge graphs or formal query languages. By sharing your experience, you’ll help guide the next stage of GRAPHIA’s co-design process and ensure the platform continues to evolve around real user needs. You can access the survey here https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf5BDE0Okrbz-9IWQWOR-AZD28sjB750rx… and provide your input by 16th of January 2026. For any questions you can contact them directly by emailing Ursula Rabar at ursula.rabar(a)operas-eu.org To find out more about GRAPHIA visit our website https://graphia-ssh.eu/knowledge-graphs/

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DH2026 deadline extension
by Menno Van Zaanen 01 Dec '25

01 Dec '25

Dear all, The DH2026 organizers announce that the submission deadline for Digital Humanities 2026 proposals has been extended to December 15, 2025. Next year’s conference (July 27–31, 2026) will be hosted by the Korean Association for Digital Humanities (KADH) at the Daejeon Convention Center in Daejeon, South Korea. The theme for this conference is “Engagement.” Submissions are welcome in multiple formats, including long and short papers, posters, workshops, and mini-conferences. Please visit the Call for Proposals on the conference website for more details: https://dh2026.adho.org. We invite you to share your work with the global Digital Humanities community and submit your proposals via Conftool: https://www.conftool.pro/dh2026 Sincerely, Wonhee & Misun (DH2026 PC Chairs) -- Prof Menno van Zaanen menno.vanzaanen(a)nwu.ac.za Professor in Digital Humanities South African Centre for Digital Language Resources https://www.sadilar.org ________________________________ NWU PRIVACY STATEMENT: http://www.nwu.ac.za/it/gov-man/disclaimer.html DISCLAIMER: This e-mail message and attachments thereto are intended solely for the recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorised review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you have received the e-mail by mistake, please contact the sender or reply e-mail and delete the e-mail and its attachments (where appropriate) from your system. ________________________________

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