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CfP (extended deadline): 3rd Workshop on Computational Methods in the Humanities (COMHUM 2026), Lausanne, Switzerland
by Michael Piotrowski 20 Feb '26

20 Feb '26

3rd Workshop on Computational Methods in the Humanities (COMHUM 2026) ======================================================================== September 9–10, 2026 · University of Lausanne, Switzerland ☞ NEW DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS: March 6, 2026 Special track: computation and video games ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Academia and the humanities have never been more digital, which pushes digital humanities to frontiers beyond computational approaches to humanities or the application of humanities research methods to the digital. In this context, the COMHUM workshop series positions itself as an international forum primarily devoted to the following research questions: (1) which formal or computational approaches can help address the particular challenges posed by the growing presence of the digital in humanities, e.g., digital artifacts, software, LLMs, and computer-generated data? In these cases and beyond, (2) which methods are most appropriate to tackle the challenges posed by humanities research and how can they be applied to concrete research questions? The first day will be devoted to the specific topic of computation and video games. This topic explores computational methods for analyzing video games as well as humanities approaches to computation in video games. It has a number of ramifications in a variety of disciplines, including software studies, critical code studies, literary analysis, digital humanities, and game studies. Topics in the special track include, but are not limited to: - Methods for data extraction in video games (e.g. telemetry, assets, models, code) - Computational methods for video game analysis (including spatial, representational and narrative aspects) - Analyses of intersection of computational approaches and the study of video games - Humanities approaches to computation of video games (including software) In the spirit of the previous editions of the COMHUM workshop, the second day will be open to submissions on any topic pertaining to theoretical or applied research on computational methods for humanities research broadly conceived. Topics in the open track include, but are not limited to: - Theoretical issues of formal modeling in the humanities - Knowledge representation in the humanities - Data structures addressing specific problems in the humanities (including text and markup) - Computational methods in the humanities (e.g., for language and literary studies, historical studies, or multimodal data) - Applications of computer vision, image analysis and spatial analysis in the humanities The program will consist of invited and contributed talks. The official language of the workshop is English. Contributions can be submitted in English or French. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Submissions We invite researchers to submit abstracts of 500 to 1000 words (excluding references). Abstracts will be reviewed double-blind by the members of the program committee, and all submissions will receive at least two independent reviews. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ For details, please visit https://wp.unil.ch/llist/en/event/workshop-on-computational-methods-in-the-… ======================================================================== -- Prof. Dr.-Ing. Michael Piotrowski <michael.piotrowski(a)unil.ch> Professeur en humanités numériques · Université de Lausanne Section des sciences du langage et de l’information · Faculté des lettres ☎ +41 21 692-3039 · Quartier Chamberonne, bâtiment Anthropole, bureau 3137 OpenPGP public key 0x926877BF1614A044

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New Diamond Open Access Journal "Replication Research (R2)"
by Horstmann, Jan 19 Feb '26

19 Feb '26

Dear colleagues, Conducting independent replication and reproduction studies of past research findings has gained increasing importance in recent years, particularly in light of the interdisciplinary replication crisis affecting many research fields. For this reason, we have recently founded a new interdisciplinary journal, “Replication Research (R2)”, which is now open for submissions. Accepted formats include all types of replications, reproductions, and conceptual contributions on the topic of replication and reproduction research. Thanks to a multidisciplinary team of replication experts, we accept submissions from multiple disciplines: Digital Humanities, Experimental Philosophy, Geoscience, Linguistics, Management Sciences, Marketing, Medicine, Mental Health, Metascience, Neuroimaging, Neuroscience, Political Science, Psychology, Qualitative & Quantitative Research Methods. We are aware that publishing replications and reproductions in this area can be challenging, which is why we have created a transparent, free, and high-quality journal. The journal is owned by the Münster Center for Open Science and FORRT and thus follows an open-science philosophy, operating under a sustainable diamond open-access model (free-to-read, free-to-publish, authors retain the rights to their article), embedding the Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) principles within its journal guidelines, and enabling PCI (peer community in) review compatibility. If you would like to submit your research, check out our submission guidelines (http://replicationresearch.org<http://replicationresearch.org/>) or send a pre-submission inquiry to contact(a)replicationresearch.org<mailto:[email protected]>. As methods for reproductions and replications are emerging across fields, we offer multiple types of support for authors, including manuscript templates and a replication handbook. You are welcome to forward this text to anyone who may be interested. For more information, see the journal page replicationresearch.org<http://replicationresearch.org/> or get in touch! Sincerely, Lukas Röseler (Editor-in-Chief) & Miriam Müller (Editorial Assistant) ------ Dr. Jan Horstmann Universität Hamburg, Fakultät für Geisteswissenschaften Leitung Digital Humanities Lab Von-Melle-Park 6, Postfach #15, 20146 Hamburg Raum C8023 Mail: jan.horstmann(a)uni-hamburg.de<mailto:[email protected]> Web: Personalseite<https://www.gw.uni-hamburg.de/ueber-die-fakultaet/digital-humanities/kontak…> Mastodon: @janhorstmann<https://fedihum.org/@janhorstmann>

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Estensione CfA Convegno Dottorale - Genova
by Comitato Giornata DH UniGe 17 Feb '26

17 Feb '26

--English version below-- Gentilissimi e gentilissime, con la presente comunichiamo il posticipo della scadenza della Call for Abstracts per la partecipazione al Convegno dottorale “Le Digital Humanities tra pratiche, limiti e prospettive (in)convenienti”, organizzato dalle dottorande e dai dottorandi in Digital Humanities dell’Università degli Studi di Genova e Torino, che si terrà il 25 e il 26 maggio 2026. La nuova data di scadenza per l’invio delle proposte di contributo è fissata al 2 marzo 2026 alle ore 13 italiane. Ricordiamo che ulteriori informazioni e aggiornamenti relative all'evento, alla modalità di invio delle proposte e alla partecipazione sono disponibili al seguente link: https://digitalhumanities.phd.unige.it/node/1313 Vi ringraziamo per l’attenzione e porgiamo cordiali saluti. Il Comitato Organizzativo -- ENG version -- Dear all, We hereby announce that the Call for Abstracts deadline for submission to the PhD Conference ‘Digital Humanities: (In)convenient Practices, Limits, and Perspectives’ is extended to 2 March 2026 at 1 p.m., CET. The event is organised by the PhD students in Digital Humanities at the Universities of Genoa and Turin and will be held on 25 and 26 May 2026. Please note that further information and updates regarding the event, how to submit the proposals and to participate are available at the following website: https://digitalhumanities.phd.unige.it/node/1313 Thank you for your attention. Best regards, The Organising Committee

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[CFP] First International Workshop on Extraction from Triplet Text-Table-Knowledge Graph and associated Challenge @ ESWC 2026
by Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles 16 Feb '26

16 Feb '26

[Apologies for cross-postings] Call for Papers First International Workshop on Extraction from Triplet Text-Table-Knowledge Graph and associated Challenge https://ecladatta.github.io/triplet2026/ in conjunction with the 23rd European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2026) https://2026.eswc-conferences.org/, Dubrovnik, Croatia Important dates: - **Submission deadline**: 3 March, 2026 (11:59pm, AoE) - **Notifications**: 31 March, 2026 - **Camera-ready deadline**: 15 April, 2026 (11:59pm, AoE) - **Workshop**: Sunday 10 May OR Monday 11 May 2026 Motivation: Understanding information spread across text and table is essential for tasks such as question answering and fact checking. Existing benchmarks primarily deal with semantic table interpretation or reasoning over tables for question answering, leaving a gap in evaluating models that integrate tabular and textual information, perform joint information extraction across modalities, or can automatically detect inconsistencies between modalities. This workshop aims to provide a forum for exchanging ideas between the NLP community working on open information extraction and the vibrant Semantic Web community working on the core challenge of matching tabular data to Knowledge Graphs, on populating knowledge graphs using texts and on reasoning across text, tabular data and knowledge graphs. The workshop also targets researchers focusing on the intersection of learning over structured data and information retrieval, for example, in retrieval augmented generation (RAG) and question answering (QA) systems. Hence, the goal of the workshop is to connect researchers and trigger collaboration opportunities by bringing together views from the Semantic Web, NLP, database, and IR disciplines. Scope: The topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Semantic Table Interpretation - Automated Tabular Data Understanding - Using Large Language Models (LLMs) for Information Extraction - Generative Models and LLMs for Structured Data - Knowledge Graph Construction and Completion with Tabular Data and Texts - Analysis of Tabular Data on the Web (Web Tables) - Benchmarking and Evaluation Frameworks for Joint Text-Table Data Analysis - Applications (e.g. data search, fact-checking, Question-Answering, KG alignment) Submission Guidelines: We invite two types of submissions: 1. Full research papers (12-15 pages) including references and appendices 2. Challenge papers (6-8 pages) including references and appendices All submissions should be formatted in the CEUR layout format, https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/template-for-submissions-to-ceur-w… This workshop is double-blind and non-archival. Submissions are managed through EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=triplet2026. All accepted papers will be presented as posters or as oral talks. **TRIPLET Challenge:** In recent years, the research community has shown increasing interest in the joint understanding of text and tabular data, often, for performing tasks such as question answering or fact checking where evidences can be found in texts and tables. Hence, various benchmarks have been developed for jointly querying tabular data and textual documents in domains such as finance, scientific publications, and open domain. While benchmarks for triple extraction from text for Knowledge Graph construction and semantic annotation of tabular data exist in the community, there remains a gap in benchmarks and tasks that specifically address the joint extraction of triples from text and tables by leveraging complementary clues across these different modalities. The TRIPLET 2026 challenge is proposing three sub-tasks and benchmarks for understanding the complementarity between tables, texts, and knowledge graphs, and in particular to propose a joint knowledge extraction and reconciliation process. #Sub-Task 1: Assessing the Relatedness Between Tables and Textual Passages The goal of this task is to assess the relatedness between tables and textual passages (within documents and across documents). For this purpose, we have constructed LATTE (Linking Across Table and Text for Relatedness Evaluation), a human annotated dataset comprising table–text pairs with relatedness labels. LATTE consists of 7,674 unique tables and 41,880 unique textual paragraphs originating from 3,826 distinct Wikipedia pages. Each text paragraph is drawn from the same or contextually linked pages as the corresponding table, rather than being artificially generated. LATTE provides a challenging benchmark for cross-modal reasoning by requiring classification of related and unrelated table–text pairs. Unlike prior resources centered on table-to-text generation or text retrieval, LATTE emphasizes fine-grained semantic relatedness between structured and unstructured data. The Figure below provides an example, using a web-annotation tool we developed, of how we identify the relatedness between the sentence containing the entity AirPort Extreme 802.11n (highlighted in Orange) and the data table providing information about output power and frequency for this entity. Participants are provided with tables and textual passages that would need to be ranked. The evaluation will use metrics such as P@k, R@k and F1@k. Go to https://www.codabench.org/competitions/12776/ and enroll to participate in this Task. #Sub-Task 2: Joint Relation Extraction Between Texts and Tables The goal of this task is to automatically extract knowledge jointly from tables and related texts. For this purpose, we created ReTaT, a dataset that can be used to train and evaluate systems for extracting such relations. This dataset is composed of (table, surrounding text) pairs extracted from Wikipedia pages and has been manually annotated with relation triples. ReTaT is organized in three subsets with distinct characteristics: domain (business, telecommunication and female celebrities), size (from 50 to 255 pairs), language (English vs French), type of relations (data vs object properties), close vs open list of relation, size of the surrounding text (paragraph vs full page). We then assessed its quality and suitability for the joint table-text relation extraction task using Large Language Models (LLMs). Given a Wikipedia page containing texts and tables and a list of predicates defined in Wikidata, a participant system should extract triples composed of mentions located partly in the text and partly in the table and disambiguated with entities and predicates identified in the Wikidata reference knowledge graph. For example, in the Figure below, an annotation triple <Q13567390, P2109, 24.57> is associated with mentions highlighted in orange (subject), blue (predicate) and green (object) to annotate the document available at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirPort_Extreme. Similar to the Text2KGBench evaluation (https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-47243-5_14) and because the set of triples are not exhaustive for a given sentence, to avoid false negatives, we follow a locally closed approach by only considering the relations that are part of the ground truth. The evaluation then uses metrics such as P, R and F1. Go to https://www.codabench.org/competitions/12936/ and enroll to participate in this Task. # Sub-Task 3: Detecting Inconsistencies Between Texts, Tables and Knowledge Graphs The goal of this task is to check the consistency of knowledge extracted from tables and texts with existing triples in the Wikidata knowledge graph. Different kind of inconsistencies will be considered in this task. Participants to this task will be able to report on their findings in their system paper. See the Figure at https://ecladatta.github.io/images/triplet_annotation_tool.png # Data & Evaluation: For the first 2 sub-tasks, we have released a training dataset with ground-truth annotations, enabling participant teams to develop machine learning-based systems, and in particular for training purposes and for hyperparameter optimizations and internal validations. A separate blind test dataset will remain private and be used for ranking the submissions. Participants should register on Codabench and then enroll for each sub-task separately (Task 1: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/12776/ and Task 2: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/12936/) Each team are allowed a limited number of daily submissions, and the highest achieved accuracy will be reported as the team's final result. We encourage participants to develop open-source solutions, to utilise and fine-tune pre-trained language models and to experiment with LLMs of various size in zero-shot or few-shot settings. # Challenge Important Dates: - Release of training set: 13 February 2026 - Deadline for registering to the challenge: 15 March 2026 - Release of test set: 24 March 2026 - Submission of results: 10 April 2026 - System Results & Notification of Acceptance: 17 April 2026 - Submission of System Papers: 28 April 2026 - Presentations @ TRIPLET Workshop: May 2026 Workshop Organizers - Raphael Troncy (EURECOM, France) - Yoan Chabot (Orange, France) - Véronique Moriceau (IRIT, France) - Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles (IRIT, France) - Mouna Kamel(IRIT, France) Contact: For discussions, please use our Google Group, https://groups.google.com/g/triplet-challenge The workshop is supported by the ECLADATTA project funded by the French National Funding Agency ANR under the grant ANR-22-CE23-0020. -- Raphaël Troncy EURECOM, Campus SophiaTech Data Science Department 450 route des Chappes, 06410 Biot, France. e-mail: raphael.troncy(a)eurecom.fr & raphael.troncy(a)gmail.com Tel: +33 (0)4 - 9300 8242 Fax: +33 (0)4 - 9000 8200 Web: http://www.eurecom.fr/~troncy/

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magazén - Call for Abstracts 2026
by Emmanuela Carbé 14 Feb '26

14 Feb '26

apologies for cross-posting Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce that the *Call for Abstracts* for the 2026 volume of magazén <https://edizionicafoscari.unive.it/it/edizioni/riviste/magazen/> is now open. The journal welcomes abstract proposals that highlight recent research and experiences in the field of Digital and Public Humanities. Scholars are particularly invited to submit contributions that span from theoretical debates to methodological reflections, also comprising the examination of particular case studies from the heterogeneous domains of Digital and Public History, Art History, Archaeology, Cultural Heritage, Museum Studies, and Textual Scholarship. magazén draws particular attention to the public aspects of these interdisciplinary domains, hosting research projects that hold firm to the principle of audience involvement from their very inception. The abstract proposal should address the following questions: What kind of materials and research questions are concerned? What digital/public methods and tools are employed, and what is their added value in tackling humanistic research aims? All details regarding the call, submission guidelines, and deadlines are available at the following link: https://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/magazen/ *Deadlines*: Abstract submission: 28 February 202 Abstract acceptance: 23 March 2026 Full article submission and publication: rolling basis Latest submission date for inclusion in the 2026 volume: 1 October 2026 On behalf of the editorial board, Emmanuela Carbé -- Emmanuela Carbé Professoressa associata di Letteratura italiana contemporanea Venice Centre for Digital and Public Humanities Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici Università Ca' Foscari Venezia Palazzo Malcanton Marcorà Dorsoduro 3484/D, Calle Contarini 30123 Venezia, Italia

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TOTh 2026 Training in Terminology & Artificial Intelligence - Registration is open
by Christophe Roche 12 Feb '26

12 Feb '26

Please share [Apologies for multiple postings] ===================================================== *TOTh 2026 Training Session* *"Bringing Artificial Intelligence to Terminology: A Step-by-Step Project Approach"* 2 & 3 June 2026 - On-site & Online University Savoie Mont-Blanc (Chambéry, France). https://toth.condillac.org/training-2026-ai ===================================================== *Presentation: *The two-day training “Terminology and Artificial Intelligence” introduces participants to Artificial Intelligence in the construction of terminologies compliant with international standards such as ISO 1087 and ISO 704. The training illustrates how Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Generative AI, including Large Language Models (LLMs), can assist in corpus processing, such as term candidate extraction, and how symbolic AI, such as ontologies, supports the representation of the conceptual systems of terminologies. To make these approaches concrete, the training will follow a complete example project that demonstrates each step of the workflow — from corpus preparation to the production of a structured digital terminology. Participants will learn how to integrate and use key tools such as NLP applications, Generative AI, Protégé, and Tedi. A significant part of the session will be devoted to hands-on exercises, allowing participants to experiment directly with the tools and techniques presented. The training will also introduce ISO and W3C standards for publishing terminologies as knowledge graphs, ensuring semantic interoperability and alignment with the Semantic Web. *Objectives of the training: *By the end of the two days, participants will have the knowledge and practical skills to reproduce this AI-assisted terminological workflow and apply it to their own projects. *Target audience: *Anyone, professional, academic or otherwise, interested in the latest advances in terminology work. *Learning outcomes: *Theoretical foundations of terminology and concept theory, basic knowledge of relevant ISO and W3C standards, an understanding of how to use AI, NLP, and Generative AI, Ontology, and knowledge graph for terminology work. *Registration:* The number of participants is limited. Early registration is recommended *Training Fees: *Student: 50 €, Academic: 100 €, Other/Industrial : 150 € _Participants are asked to bring their laptops_ Prof Christophe Roche University of Crete (Greece) - ERA Chair Holder University Savoie Mont Blanc (France) - Emeritus https://talos-ai4ssh.uoc.gr/ https://christophe-roche.fr/ roche.university(a)gmail.com

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Job announcement: W3-Professorship in Digital Humanities at the University of Freiburg
by Elena Renje 08 Feb '26

08 Feb '26

Dear all, We would like to draw your attention to the following call for applications for a W3-Professorship for Digital Humanities at the University of Freiburg. Best regards / Mit freundlichen Grüßen Klara Oehler and Elena Renje University of Freiburg Coordination Digital Humanities Lab Job announcement: W3-Professorship for Digital Humanities at the University of Freiburg German version below The Faculty of Philology (Department of General Linguistics in collaboration with the Digital Humanities Lab) is offering a W3-Professorship for Digital Humanities. * Application deadline: 17 March 2026 * Start date: At the earliest possible date * Scope of work: Full-time position * Id no.: 00004827 Description We are looking for an internationally visible scholar from the field of Digital Humanities (DH) with a language- or text-focused profile. A specialization in methods, applications, and contexts of Artificial Intelligence in the broader sense (including technical understanding such as coding, application to philological research questions, and ideological/ethical/didactic implications, etc.) is required. In-depth knowledge of established DH methods (e.g., NLP and other computational techniques and models, distant reading, etc.) is advantageous. Networking within the Faculty of Philology as well as active participation in research foci, centers, and collaborative projects are expected. The successful candidate will assume a leadership function in the DH Lab established in 2024 at the Faculty of Philology, and will play a leading role in the (further) development of DH-related study and certificate programs, as well as in modules within language, literary and cultural studies curricula. In all other respects, the conditions for appointment according to § 47 Landeshochschulgesetz apply: https://www.landesrecht-bw.de/bsbw/document/jlr-HSchulGBWV28P47 We request the following application materials: * Resumé * Certificates and diplomas * Complete list of publications and lectures, listing the five most important publications We will be particularly pleased to receive applications from women for the position advertised here. The university supports individuals appointed to professorial positions through a Dual Career Service and a Family Service. Application Please send your application including supporting documents mentioned above and the application form (https://intranet.uni-freiburg.de/public/downloads/saz/bewerbungsbogen-profe…) <https://intranet.uni-freiburg.de/public/downloads/saz/bewerbungsbogen-profe…> citing the reference number 00004827, by 17 March 2026 at the latest. Please send your application to the following address in written or electronic form: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Bernd Kortmann University of Freiburg Faculty of Philology P.O. Box 79085 Freiburg or to the email address bewerbungen(a)philologie.uni-freiburg.de For further information, please contact Herr Prof. Dr. Achim Rabus on the phone number +49 761 203-8315 or E-Mail achim.rabus(a)slavistik.uni-freiburg.de Further information on the appointment procedure can be found in the Code for Practice for professorial appointments (in German): https://intranet.uni-freiburg.de/public/downloads/saz/berufungsleitfaden.pdf Link to job posting: https://uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00004827/ General and legal remarks: Full-time positions may generally be split up into two or more part-time positions, provided that there are no formal or legal barriers. Candidates are selected in accordance with the provisions of the AGG (Allgemeines Gleichbehandlungsgesetz - German General Equal Treatment Act). Applicants with disabilities (Schwerbehinderte Menschen) will be given preferential consideration in case of equal qualification. The department offering the position is liable for the content of this job posting. Textual errors do not constitute a basis for any claims or rights. The relevant human resources department has sole responsibility for all legal transactions made within the context of the selection and hiring process. Please note that breaches in privacy and unauthorized access by third parties cannot be excluded in communication by unencrypted email. Privacy policy: Privacy policy professorship: https://uni-freiburg.de/en/data-protection-applications/ ________________________________________ GERMAN VERSION Ausschreibung: W3-Professur für Digital Humanities an der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg An der Philologischen Fakultät ist am Sprachwissenschaftlichen Seminar gemeinsam mit dem Digital Humanities Lab eine W3-Professur für Digital Humanities zu besetzen. * Bewerbungsfrist: 17. März 2026 * Eintrittstermin: Zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt * Arbeitsumfang: Vollzeitstelle * Kennziffer: 00004827 Beschreibung Gesucht wird eine international sichtbare Persönlichkeit aus dem Bereich der Digital Humanities (DH) mit sprach- bzw. textbezogenem Profil. Ein Schwerpunkt im Bereich von Methoden, Anwendungen und Kontexten der Künstlichen Intelligenz im weiteren Sinne (technisches Verständnis inkl. Coding, Nutzbarmachung für philologische Fragestellungen, ideologische/ethische/didaktische Implikationen usw.) wird vorausgesetzt. Von Vorteil sind vertiefte Kenntnisse klassischer Methoden der DH (beispielsweise NLP- und weiterer komputationeller Techniken und Modelle, Distant Reading usw.). Die Vernetzung innerhalb der Philologischen Fakultät sowie die Mitwirkung an Forschungsschwerpunkten, Zentren und Verbundprojekten werden vorausgesetzt. Der*die erfolgreiche Kandidat*in nimmt eine leitende Funktion im 2024 gegründeten DH Lab an der Philologischen Fakultät ein und spielt eine führende Rolle bei der (Weiter-)Entwicklung DH-bezogener Studien- und Zertifikatsprogramme sowie von Modulen in sprach-, literatur- und kulturwissenschaftlichen Studiengängen. Im Übrigen gelten die Einstellungsvoraussetzungen des § 47 Landeshochschulgesetz: https://www.landesrecht-bw.de/bsbw/document/jlr-HSchulGBWV28P47 Folgende Bewerbungsunterlagen werden erbeten: * Lebenslauf * Zeugnisse und Urkunden * Vollständiges Schriften- und Vortragsverzeichnis unter Nennung der fünf wichtigsten Publikationen Für die hier ausgeschriebene Position freuen wir uns besonders über Bewerbungen von Frauen. Die Universität unterstützt Berufene über einen Dual Career Service und einen Familienservice. Bewerbung Bitte bewerben Sie sich mit o. g. Unterlagen und dem Ausdruck Ihres Bewerbungsformulars (https://intranet.uni-freiburg.de/public/downloads/saz/bewerbungsbogen-profe…) <https://intranet.uni-freiburg.de/public/downloads/saz/bewerbungsbogen-profe…> unter Angabe der Kennziffer 00004827 bis spätestens 17. März 2026. Ihre Bewerbung richten Sie bitte in schriftlicher oder elektronischer Form an: Herrn Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Bernd Kortmann Universität Freiburg Philologische Fakultät Postfach 79085 Freiburg bzw. an die Mailadresse bewerbungen(a)philologie.uni-freiburg.de Für nähere Informationen steht Ihnen Herr Prof. Dr. Achim Rabus unter Tel. +49 761 203-8315 oder E-Mail achim.rabus(a)slavistik.uni-freiburg.de zur Verfügung. Weitere Informationen zum Berufungsverfahren: https://intranet.uni-freiburg.de/public/downloads/saz/berufungsleitfaden.pdf Link zur Stellenausschreibung: https://uni-freiburg.de/stellenangebot/00004827/ Allgemeine und rechtliche Hinweise: Vollzeitstellen sind grundsätzlich teilbar, soweit dienstliche oder rechtliche Gründe nicht entgegenstehen. Die Auswahl erfolgt nach den Regeln des AGG (Allgemeines Gleichbehandlungsgesetz). Schwerbehinderte Menschen werden bei entsprechender Eignung bevorzugt eingestellt. Für den Inhalt dieser Anzeige ist die jeweils ausschreibende Einrichtung verantwortlich. Etwaige inhaltliche Fehler begründen keine Ansprüche oder Rechte. Die rechtsgeschäftliche Vertretung im Zusammenhang mit dem Besetzungsverfahren und der Einstellung erfolgt ausschließlich durch das zuständige Personaldezernat. Bitte beachten Sie, dass Gefährdungen der Vertraulichkeit und der unberechtigte Zugriff Dritter bei der Kommunikation per unverschlüsselter Mail nicht ausgeschlossen werden können. Datenschutz: Datenschutzerklärung Professur: https://uni-freiburg.de/datenschutz-bewerbungen/

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Call for Papers Colloque CID / DiDip conference 2026: The Methodology of Diplomatics / La metodologia della diplomatica / La méthodologie de la diplomatique / Die Methodologie der Diplomatik / La metodología de la diplomática
by Georg Vogeler 07 Feb '26

07 Feb '26

Dear European Digital Humanists, this might interest you: Colloque CID / DiDip conference 2026 Date: 22-24 July 2026 Topic: The Methodology of Diplomatics / La metodologia della diplomatica / La méthodologie de la diplomatique / Die Methodologie der Diplomatik / La metodología de la diplomática Location: University of Graz Call for Papers: https://didip.hypotheses.org/conference-2026/cfp (deadline 28. February 2026) Logo Commission Internationale de la Diplomatique Contact: didip(a)uni-graz.at https://didip.hypotheses.org/conference-2026 Presentation English In celebration of the 200th birthday of Theodor Sickel (1826-1908), the conference will focus on developments in the methodology of diplomatics, discussing which methods fit to what kind of diplomatic material and research question, collecting exceptional results of the application of existing methods, confronting old and new methods, reflecting on how to evaluate digital methods and their impact on the current diplomatics methodologies, etc. By discussing applications and effects of individual methods applied in diplomatics research, we hope to refine and renew the general methodological framework of diplomatics. Diplomatics is an old field of research. Its main methodology is usually centered around the concept of discrimen veri ac falsi and was designed in the bella diplomatica of the 17th century by Dom Jean Mabillon. He introduced comparison of contemporary habits of authentication, writing, or linguistic style as the main method of diplomatics. Palaeography and textual analysis (“diplomatic discourse”) are at the core of diplomatics methodology. This includes, for instance, the creation of typologies describing the expectations for individual documents. However, the long history of diplomatics has seen changes, additions and shifts in its methodology: Sickel’s concept of “Kanzleimäßigkeit” narrowed the method from a generic comparison to the detailed analysis of chancery practices and the individuals creating the charters, which also has a strong tradition in Spanish diplomatics. Critical scholarly editing is an independent strand of diplomatics, which combines the methodologies for discrimen veri ac falsi with methods of textual criticism: reflecting on the tradition of the texts, establishment of a reliable text, and provision of abstracts of the content. The crisis of diplomatics in the 1960’s (Bartoloni, Bautier, Fichtenau, Petrucci) fostered the search for the application of diplomatics methods to other material than charters and to other temporal contexts than the middle ages. Comparative methods have been refined in Pierre Chaplais’ work on different English chanceries. Alessandro Pratesi brought forward social and intellectual context as an analytical framework for diplomatics, while still focussing on the representational and probative function of the charters and the formal rigor in individual analysis. From the 1990s onwards, scholars such as Peter Rück, Olivier Guyotjeannin, and Laurent Morelle have pushed forward the conceptualization of diplomatics as cultural history and thus added the analysis of cultural practices around the act of documentation and the use of charters to the methods of diplomatics. While Attilio Bartoli Langeli promoted the historical rooting of the discipline, Giovanna Nicolaj has pushed the legal framework of diplomatics to the foreground. The most recent contributions to diplomatics methodology are sparked by the digitisation of archival holdings and scholarly engagement with them. Digital diplomatics in this sense is searching for appropriate representations of parchments, seals, texts and the actions represented by them, and the analytical tools that open new perspectives. Luciana Duranti has used the “digital diplomatics” label to transfer analytical criteria of diplomatics like authenticity to archival science to understand digital documentary practices better. This conference will study the development and the state of the art of diplomatic methodology in all its facets. Français À l’occasion du 200e anniversaire de Theodor Sickel (1826-1908), le colloque se concentrera sur les développements de la méthodologie diplomatique, en discutant des méthodes adaptées à chaque type de matériel diplomatique et de question de recherche, en rassemblant les résultats exceptionnels de l’application des méthodes existantes, en confrontant les anciennes et les nouvelles méthodes, en réfléchissant à la manière d’évaluer les méthodes numériques et leur impact sur les méthodologies diplomatiques actuelles, etc. En discutant des applications et des effets des différentes méthodes utilisées dans la recherche diplomatique, nous espérons affiner et renouveler le cadre méthodologique général de la diplomatique. La diplomatique est un domaine de recherche ancien. Sa méthodologie principale est généralement centrée sur le concept du discrimen veri ac falsi et a été conçue dans les bella diplomatica du XVIIe siècle par Dom Jean Mabillon. Il a introduit la comparaison des habitudes contemporaines d’authentification, d’écriture ou de style linguistique comme méthode principale de la diplomatique. La paléographie et l’analyse textuelle (« discours diplomatique ») sont au cœur de la méthodologie diplomatique. Cela inclut, par exemple, la création de typologies décrivant les attentes pour chaque document. Cependant, la longue histoire de la diplomatique a connu des changements, des ajouts et des évolutions dans sa méthodologie : le concept de « Kanzleimäßigkeit » de Sickel a restreint la méthode d’une comparaison générique à l’analyse détaillée des pratiques de la chancellerie et des individus créant les chartes, méthode qui a également une forte tradition dans la diplomatique espagnole. L’édition critique scientifique est un courant indépendant de la diplomatique, qui combine les méthodologies du discrimen veri ac falsi avec les méthodes de la critique textuelle : réflexion sur la tradition des textes, établissement d’un texte fiable et rédaction d’analyses du contenu. La crise de la diplomatique dans les années 1960 (Bartoloni, Bautier, Fichtenau, Petrucci) a favorisé la recherche d’applications des méthodes diplomatiques à d’autres documents que les chartes et à d’autres contextes temporels que le Moyen Âge. Les méthodes comparatives ont été affinées dans les travaux de Pierre Chaplais sur différentes chancelleries anglaises. Alessandro Pratesi a mis en avant le contexte social et intellectuel comme cadre analytique pour la diplomatique, tout en continuant à se concentrer sur la fonction représentative et probante des chartes et la rigueur formelle dans l’analyse individuelle. À partir des années 1990, des chercheurs tels que Peter Rück, Olivier Guyotjeannin et Laurent Morelle ont fait progresser la conceptualisation de la diplomatique en tant qu’histoire culturelle et ont ainsi ajouté l’analyse des pratiques culturelles autour de l’acte de documentation et de l’utilisation des chartes aux méthodes de la diplomatique. Alors qu’Attilio Bartoli Langeli a promu l’ancrage historique de la discipline, Giovanna Nicolaj a mis en avant le cadre juridique de la diplomatique. Les contributions les plus récentes à la méthodologie diplomatique sont inspirées par la numérisation des fonds d’archives et l’intérêt des chercheurs pour ceux-ci. Dans ce sens, la diplomatique numérique recherche des représentations appropriées des parchemins, des sceaux, des textes et des actions qu’ils représentent, ainsi que des outils analytiques qui ouvrent de nouvelles perspectives. Luciana Duranti a utilisé le terme de « diplomatique numérique » pour transférer les critères analytiques de la diplomatique, tels que l’authenticité, à la science archivistique, afin de mieux comprendre les pratiques documentaires numériques. Cette conférence étudiera le développement et l’état de l’art de la méthodologie diplomatique sous toutes ses facettes. -- Prof. Dr. Georg Vogeler Professur für Digital Humanities | Chair Digital Humanities Zentrum für Informationsmodellierung | Centre for Informationmodelling Universität Graz | University of Graz A-8010 Graz | Elisabethstraße 59/III Tel. +43 316 380 8033 <http://informationsmodellierung.uni-graz.at> - <http://gams.uni-graz.at> <https://online.uni-graz.at/kfu_online/wbForschungsportal.cbShowPortal?pPers…> Institut für Dokumentologie und Editorik e.V. <http://www.i-d-e.de> International Center for Archival Research ICARus <http://www.icar-us.eu>

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Call for Papers Colloque CID / DiDip conference 2026: The Methodology of Diplomatics / La metodologia della diplomatica / La méthodologie de la diplomatique / Die Methodologie der Diplomatik / La metodología de la diplomática
by Georg Vogeler^ 07 Feb '26

07 Feb '26

Dear European Digital Humanists, this might interest you: Colloque CID / DiDip conference 2026 Date: 22-24 July 2026 Topic: The Methodology of Diplomatics / La metodologia della diplomatica / La méthodologie de la diplomatique / Die Methodologie der Diplomatik / La metodología de la diplomática Location: University of Graz Call for Papers: https://didip.hypotheses.org/conference-2026/cfp (deadline 28. February 2026) Logo Commission Internationale de la Diplomatique Contact: didip(a)uni-graz.at https://didip.hypotheses.org/conference-2026 Presentation English In celebration of the 200th birthday of Theodor Sickel (1826-1908), the conference will focus on developments in the methodology of diplomatics, discussing which methods fit to what kind of diplomatic material and research question, collecting exceptional results of the application of existing methods, confronting old and new methods, reflecting on how to evaluate digital methods and their impact on the current diplomatics methodologies, etc. By discussing applications and effects of individual methods applied in diplomatics research, we hope to refine and renew the general methodological framework of diplomatics. Diplomatics is an old field of research. Its main methodology is usually centered around the concept of discrimen veri ac falsi and was designed in the bella diplomatica of the 17th century by Dom Jean Mabillon. He introduced comparison of contemporary habits of authentication, writing, or linguistic style as the main method of diplomatics. Palaeography and textual analysis (“diplomatic discourse”) are at the core of diplomatics methodology. This includes, for instance, the creation of typologies describing the expectations for individual documents. However, the long history of diplomatics has seen changes, additions and shifts in its methodology: Sickel’s concept of “Kanzleimäßigkeit” narrowed the method from a generic comparison to the detailed analysis of chancery practices and the individuals creating the charters, which also has a strong tradition in Spanish diplomatics. Critical scholarly editing is an independent strand of diplomatics, which combines the methodologies for discrimen veri ac falsi with methods of textual criticism: reflecting on the tradition of the texts, establishment of a reliable text, and provision of abstracts of the content. The crisis of diplomatics in the 1960’s (Bartoloni, Bautier, Fichtenau, Petrucci) fostered the search for the application of diplomatics methods to other material than charters and to other temporal contexts than the middle ages. Comparative methods have been refined in Pierre Chaplais’ work on different English chanceries. Alessandro Pratesi brought forward social and intellectual context as an analytical framework for diplomatics, while still focussing on the representational and probative function of the charters and the formal rigor in individual analysis. From the 1990s onwards, scholars such as Peter Rück, Olivier Guyotjeannin, and Laurent Morelle have pushed forward the conceptualization of diplomatics as cultural history and thus added the analysis of cultural practices around the act of documentation and the use of charters to the methods of diplomatics. While Attilio Bartoli Langeli promoted the historical rooting of the discipline, Giovanna Nicolaj has pushed the legal framework of diplomatics to the foreground. The most recent contributions to diplomatics methodology are sparked by the digitisation of archival holdings and scholarly engagement with them. Digital diplomatics in this sense is searching for appropriate representations of parchments, seals, texts and the actions represented by them, and the analytical tools that open new perspectives. Luciana Duranti has used the “digital diplomatics” label to transfer analytical criteria of diplomatics like authenticity to archival science to understand digital documentary practices better. This conference will study the development and the state of the art of diplomatic methodology in all its facets. Français À l’occasion du 200e anniversaire de Theodor Sickel (1826-1908), le colloque se concentrera sur les développements de la méthodologie diplomatique, en discutant des méthodes adaptées à chaque type de matériel diplomatique et de question de recherche, en rassemblant les résultats exceptionnels de l’application des méthodes existantes, en confrontant les anciennes et les nouvelles méthodes, en réfléchissant à la manière d’évaluer les méthodes numériques et leur impact sur les méthodologies diplomatiques actuelles, etc. En discutant des applications et des effets des différentes méthodes utilisées dans la recherche diplomatique, nous espérons affiner et renouveler le cadre méthodologique général de la diplomatique. La diplomatique est un domaine de recherche ancien. Sa méthodologie principale est généralement centrée sur le concept du discrimen veri ac falsi et a été conçue dans les bella diplomatica du XVIIe siècle par Dom Jean Mabillon. Il a introduit la comparaison des habitudes contemporaines d’authentification, d’écriture ou de style linguistique comme méthode principale de la diplomatique. La paléographie et l’analyse textuelle (« discours diplomatique ») sont au cœur de la méthodologie diplomatique. Cela inclut, par exemple, la création de typologies décrivant les attentes pour chaque document. Cependant, la longue histoire de la diplomatique a connu des changements, des ajouts et des évolutions dans sa méthodologie : le concept de « Kanzleimäßigkeit » de Sickel a restreint la méthode d’une comparaison générique à l’analyse détaillée des pratiques de la chancellerie et des individus créant les chartes, méthode qui a également une forte tradition dans la diplomatique espagnole. L’édition critique scientifique est un courant indépendant de la diplomatique, qui combine les méthodologies du discrimen veri ac falsi avec les méthodes de la critique textuelle : réflexion sur la tradition des textes, établissement d’un texte fiable et rédaction d’analyses du contenu. La crise de la diplomatique dans les années 1960 (Bartoloni, Bautier, Fichtenau, Petrucci) a favorisé la recherche d’applications des méthodes diplomatiques à d’autres documents que les chartes et à d’autres contextes temporels que le Moyen Âge. Les méthodes comparatives ont été affinées dans les travaux de Pierre Chaplais sur différentes chancelleries anglaises. Alessandro Pratesi a mis en avant le contexte social et intellectuel comme cadre analytique pour la diplomatique, tout en continuant à se concentrer sur la fonction représentative et probante des chartes et la rigueur formelle dans l’analyse individuelle. À partir des années 1990, des chercheurs tels que Peter Rück, Olivier Guyotjeannin et Laurent Morelle ont fait progresser la conceptualisation de la diplomatique en tant qu’histoire culturelle et ont ainsi ajouté l’analyse des pratiques culturelles autour de l’acte de documentation et de l’utilisation des chartes aux méthodes de la diplomatique. Alors qu’Attilio Bartoli Langeli a promu l’ancrage historique de la discipline, Giovanna Nicolaj a mis en avant le cadre juridique de la diplomatique. Les contributions les plus récentes à la méthodologie diplomatique sont inspirées par la numérisation des fonds d’archives et l’intérêt des chercheurs pour ceux-ci. Dans ce sens, la diplomatique numérique recherche des représentations appropriées des parchemins, des sceaux, des textes et des actions qu’ils représentent, ainsi que des outils analytiques qui ouvrent de nouvelles perspectives. Luciana Duranti a utilisé le terme de « diplomatique numérique » pour transférer les critères analytiques de la diplomatique, tels que l’authenticité, à la science archivistique, afin de mieux comprendre les pratiques documentaires numériques. Cette conférence étudiera le développement et l’état de l’art de la méthodologie diplomatique sous toutes ses facettes.

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Online Workshop - Large Language METAPHORS: New Trends in Computational Approaches to Metaphorical Expressions
by ginevra.martinelli＠iusspavia.it 05 Feb '26

05 Feb '26

We are pleased to announce the online workshop Large Language METAPHORS: New Trends in Computational Approaches to Metaphorical Expressions, to be held on 5th March, organised by the Neurolinguistics and Experimental Pragmatics Laboratory (NEPLab) and supported by the ERC project “PROcessing MEtaphors: Neurochronometry, Acquisition and DEcay” (PROMENADE). The workshop adopts an interdisciplinary perspective, bringing together linguistics, computational linguistics, and psycholinguistics. It will investigate how Large Language Models (LLMs) can be used for the detection, interpretation, mapping, and evaluation of metaphors across languages. Particular attention will also be given to aligning computational models with human cognitive data, as well as to the use of metaphorical language as a means of probing the linguistic capabilities of LLMs. Talk lineup: - Using Large Language Models to Identify Metaphorical Expressions in Text Matteo Fuoli, Weihang Huang, Jeannette Littlemore, Sarah Turner, Ellen Wilding - Language Models and the Magic of Metaphor, Revisited: A Comparative Evaluation of Italian Baby and Large Language Model with Human Interpretations Simone Mazzoli, Alice Suozzi, Gianluca E. Lebani - A Novel Metaphor Dataset of Toxic Posts from Christian Subreddits Sebastian Reimann, Tatjana Scheffler - Exploring Metaphors in LLMs with a Human-Centric and Culture-Aware Approach Bolette S. Pedersen, Ali Basirat, Alberto Parola, Sussi Olsen - Commonsense Reasoning for Automatic Metaphor Elaboration: A Conceptual Combination Approach Antonio Lieto, Gian Luca Pozzato, Stefano Zoia - HUMMUS: a Dataset of Humorous Multimodal Metaphor Use Xiaoyu Tong, Zhi Zhang, Pia Sommerauer, Martha Lewis, Ekaterina Shutova - Participants and Models: the Role of LLMs in Psycholinguistic Approaches to Metaphor Veronica Mangiaterra, Hamad Al-Azary, Chiara Barattieri di San Pietro, Paolo Canal, Valentina Bambini - MetaMap – Mapping Metaphors Across Languages and Cultures Ginevra Martinelli, Chiara Barattieri di San Pietro, Maddalena Bressler, Veronica Mangiaterra, Valentina Bambini The workshop will be fully online and free of charge, but registration is required. For registration and further information: • Workshop website: https://www.neplab.it/large_language_metaphors_home/ • Email: ginevra.martinelli(a)iusspavia.it Organizing Committee: Valentina Bambini Chiara Barattieri di San Pietro Veronica Mangiaterra Ginevra Martinelli

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EADH 2026 - deadline extended
by EADH 2026 04 Feb '26

04 Feb '26

Dear Colleagues, We are happy to announce that the deadline for the European Association for Digital Humanities 2026 conference has been extended to 27 February 2026! The conference will take place from 15 to 19 September 2026 at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków (Poland), and is co-organized by the Jagiellonian Centre of Digital Humanities, the Institute of Polish Language of the Polish Academy of Sciences, and the University of Wrocław. Under the theme “Linking Europe: Digital Humanities Without Borders”, the event invites the international Digital Humanities community to reflect on technological transformations, including artificial intelligence, multilingual infrastructures, sustainability, and responsible data governance. Submissions are open for posters, short papers, long papers, and workshops. The thematic areas include: data and methods, AI and ethics, infrastructure and open science, cultural heritage and diversity, communities and futures of DH. All conference venues are fully accessible, and online participation is available for presenters. The new deadline for all types of submissions is 23:59 AoE on Friday, 27 February 2026. You can find the full Call for Papers as well as other information here: https://eadh2026.confer.uj.edu.pl/cfp Proposals may be submitted via ConfTool: https://www.conftool.net/eadh2026/index.php Sincerely, EADH 2026 Organizing Team

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Second call for contributions for the 5th International Conference on Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence (HHAI 2026) in Brussels
by LENAERTS Tom 02 Feb '26

02 Feb '26

SECOND CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS HHAI 226 - Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence July 6–10, 2026, Brussels, Belgium -------------------------------------------------- Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence (HHAI) is an international conference series that focuses on the study of Artificial Intelligence systems that cooperate synergistically, proactively and purposefully with humans, amplifying instead of replacing human intelligence. HHAI aims for AI systems that work together with humans, emphasizing the need for adaptive, collaborative, responsible, interactive and human-centered intelligent systems. HHAI systems leverage human strengths and compensate for human weaknesses, while taking into account social, ethical and legal considerations. HHAI 2026 will be held on July 6-10, 2026, in Brussels, Belgium, and is the fifth conference in the series. The HHAI field is driven by developments in AI, but it also requires fundamentally new approaches and solutions. Thus, we encourage collaborations across research domains such as AI, HCI, cognitive and social sciences, philosophy and ethics, complex systems, and others. In this fifth international conference, we invite scholars from these fields to submit their best original – published, new as well as in progress – works, and visionary ideas on Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence. **Join the HHAI community and keep up with the news:** Website: https://hhai-conference.org/2026/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hhai-conference/ You can contribute in many ways; Check out the Call for papers <https://hhai-conference.org/2026/cfp/> Call for workshops and tutorials <https://hhai-conference.org/2026/workshops-and-tutorials/> Call for demos and posters <https://hhai-conference.org/2026/call-for-posters-and-demos/> Call for contributions in the Doctoral consortium <https://hhai-conference.org/2026/doctoral-consortium/> This year, the main track also invites extended abstracts on research published in high-quality journals starting from publications starting in January 2025. Bien cordialement | Vriendelijke groet | Kind regards Tom ________________________________________________________________________________ prof. Tom Lenaerts Département d’Informatique Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) Boulevard du Triomphe CP212 1050 Brussels. Belgium. Email: Tom.Lenaerts(a)ulb.be Web: tomlenaerts.be <http://tomlenaerts.be/>

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DEADLINE EXTENDED - CfP: Semantic Annotation for the Ancient World - SA4AW
by Rachel Milio 02 Feb '26

02 Feb '26

--- apologies for cross-posting --- DEADLINE EXTENDED - CfP: Semantic Annotation for the Ancient World - SA4AW Dear colleagues, This is a reminder for the Call for Abstracts for the SA4AW Conference taking place in Rethymno, Crete (Greece) on May 7-8, 2026. The new deadline is February 15th. Please submit an abstract of max. 1, 000 words (bibliography excluded) via EasyChair<https://easychair.org/cfp/SA4AW2026>. The conference is organised by the TALOS Centre in AI4SSH of the University of Crete (Horizon ERA Chair TALOS AI4SSH ID: 101087269) in collaboration with the Department of Philology, University of Crete. Learn more at the conference webpage<https://talos-ai4ssh.uoc.gr/events/conferences/semantic-annotation-for-the-…>. Description: We invite proposals for the 2nd Semantic Annotation for the Ancient World (SA4AW) conference, which examines the role of semantic annotation in dialogue with hybrid AI approaches, large language models (LLMs), deep learning, and knowledge graphs in the study of the ancient world and cultural heritage. Semantic annotation―whether manual, automated, or human-in-the-loop―enables the identification and linking of concepts, entities, and relationships, transforming raw textual and visual data into structured, interoperable knowledge. At a moment when LLMs can generate fluent interpretations but require grounding in domain-specific context, semantic annotation and knowledge graphs provide essential transparency, precision, and reusability. We welcome contributions that showcase methods, tools, case studies, theoretical reflections, and cross-disciplinary collaborations. In line with FAIR and Linked Open Data principles, the conference encourages open and accessible research practices. Conference proceedings will be published in open access online format. We encourage proposals on the following themes: * Semantic annotation in the era of LLMs (hybrid workflows, grounding, explainability) * Ontology-driven annotation and knowledge modelling * Knowledge graphs and Linked Open Data for ancient world studies * Human-in-the-loop annotation: methods, strategies, and pedagogy * Automatic and semi-automatic annotation pipelines * Cross-lingual and multilingual annotation (Ancient Greek, Latin, and historical languages) * Annotation and disambiguation of ancient places, persons, and cultural entities * NER and entity linking for ancient languages * RDF-based and ontology-aware digital editions * Standards, interoperability, and data sustainability (FAIR principles) * Platforms, tools, and reproducible workflows for annotation and data reuse Submission details: We invite proposals from all scholars, junior and senior, working in the topic areas of the conference. Please submit an abstract of max. 1,000 words (bibliography excluded, free format). Submissions will be reviewed via double-blind peer review through EasyChair . Paper presentations will be 20 minutes long, with extra time for questions and discussion. The working language of the conference is English. A longer version of accepted papers will be published in an edited volume after the conference. More details about the edited volume are forthcoming. For more information, contact the conference organisers at sa4aw.contact(a)gmail.com<mailto:[email protected]>. Rachel Milio (she/her) PhD Candidate of TALOS-AI4SSH<https://talos-ai4ssh.uoc.gr/>, Semantic Annotation of Texts TALOS Address: University of Crete Research Center (UCRC), Level 1-Building Γ- Room Γ2 Gallos Campus, University of Crete, Rethymno, GR 74100 Office Phone: +30 28310 77141 Mobile Phone: +30 69816 31347 University Email: philp0997(a)philology.uoc.gr

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“Accessible Textual Heritage” Course – third and last CfA
by Simone Rebora 02 Feb '26

02 Feb '26

Dear all, Applications for the Professional Development and Specialization Course “Accessible Textual Heritage” are open until February 8th. The course will take place at the University of Verona and online (blended mode) from March 23, 2026, to April 30, 2026. The course consists of 25 hours of training in the first week (March 23-27, 2026), with theoretical explanations and practical workshops, and the completion of a final project, with presentation of the results to a team of experts in the field (April 30, 2026). The full program is available here: https://daih.eu/assets/pdf/CPAP-ATH2026.pdf The course is aimed at undergraduate and graduate students, PhD candidates, research fellows, professors and teachers, public administration employees, and professionals in archives, museums, and libraries. Attendance requires a minimum of 70% participation in the lessons, with the possibility to listen to recordings at home. The course can also be tailored to meet the specific academic or professional needs of each participant. The course has received the patronage of the Association for Digital Humanities and Digital Culture (AIUCD) and the Digital Arena for Inclusive Humanities (DAIH). Instructors: Simone Rebora (University of Verona), Giulia Grisot (University of Manchester), Piergiovanna Grossi (University of Verona), and Marina Lehmann (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz) Topics and Workshops: • Accessible computing o Basics of computational thinking o Computational thinking with LLMs • Accessible computational resources o Accessible materials for computational analysis o Accessible tools for computational analysis • Accessible digital documents o Accessibility standards and guidelines for digital documents o Accessibility practices for textual and visual content • Accessible research outcomes o Introduction to storytelling for academic and nonacademic audiences o Visualization as tool for accessible research outcomes Recognition: Upon successful completion of the Professional Development and Specialization Course, participants will receive a certificate and earn 6 ECTS credits. Registration: https://www.corsi.univr.it/?ent=cs&id=1279&menu=home&lang=en More info: simone.rebora(a)univr.it

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TOTh 2026 - Last Call for Papers
by Christophe Roche 02 Feb '26

02 Feb '26

Please share [Apologies for multiple postings] ====================================================== *LAST CALL FOR PAPERS - TOTh 2026* ====================================================== *The 20th Anniversary Edition of the Longest-Running International Conference on Terminology* Terminology & Ontology: Theories and applications June 4 & 5, 2026 - University Savoie Mont-Blanc (Chambéry, France) https://toth.condillac.org/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This landmark event will feature invited lectures and round tables, all within a festive atmosphere to commemorate two decades of exchange within the TOTh community and explore future perspectives. Don’t miss the opportunity to submit your work to the conference bringing together the foremost experts in the field. Selected papers will be published in a special volume of the Terminologica series. Topics include (but are not limited to): - Terminology, Translation, Linguistics, Terminography, Lexicography, Lexicology, Corpus - Natural Language Processing: Corpus analysis - Artificial Intelligence: Knowledge Representation, Ontology, Knowledge Graph, Generative AI, LLMs - Methodology (FAIR principles) & Standards (ISO, W3C) - Environments & Applications: Cultural Heritage, Digital Humanities, Education, Healthcare, Industry, Content Management Systems, Semantic Web, Metadata, Linked Open Data, etc. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Deadline for submission of extended abstracts POSTPONED to February 8, 2026* Notification to authors: March 8, 2026 Easychair submission page: https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=toth2026 The format for submitting abstracts is free. The number of characters including spaces is between 12,000 and 15,000, excluding the bibliography Working languages: English and French ===================================================== *TOTh 2026 Training Session on * The conference is preceded by a two-day training session: 2 & 3 June 2026 *"Bringing Artificial Intelligence to Terminology: A Step-by-Step Project Approach"* https://toth.condillac.org/training-2026-ai University Savoie Mont-Blanc (Chambéry, France). ===================================================== Prof Christophe Roche University of Crete (Greece) - ERA Chair Holder University Savoie Mont Blanc (France) - Emeritus https://talos-ai4ssh.uoc.gr/ http://christophe-roche.fr/ roche.university(a)gmail.com

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CFP: LT4HALA 2026
by Rachele Sprugnoli 02 Feb '26

02 Feb '26

CFP: LT4HALA 2026 - The Fourth Workshop on Language Technologies for Historical and Ancient Languages Website: https://circse.github.io/LT4HALA/2026/ Date: 11 May 2026 Place: co-located with LREC 2026, 11-16 May 2026, Palma, Mallorca (Spain) Submission page: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/LT4HALA2026/ Submission deadline: 17 February 2026 DESCRIPTION LT4HALA 2026 is a one-day workshop that seeks to bring together scholars who are developing and/or are using Language Technologies (LTs) for historically attested languages, so to foster cross-fertilization between the Computational Linguistics community and the areas in the Humanities dealing with historical linguistic data, e.g. historians, philologists, linguists, archaeologists and literary scholars. LT4HALA 2026 follows LT4HALA 2020, 2022, 2024 that were organized in the context of LREC 2020, LREC 2022 and LREC-COLING 2024, respectively. Despite the current availability of large collections of digitized texts written in historical languages, such interdisciplinary collaboration is still hampered by the limited availability of annotated linguistic resources for most of the historical languages. Creating such resources is a challenge and an obligation for LTs, both to support historical linguistic research with the most updated technologies and to preserve those precious linguistic data that survived from past times. Relevant topics for the workshop include, but are not limited to: creation and annotation of linguistic resources (both lexical and textual); the role of digital infrastructures, such as CLARIN <https://www.clarin.eu/>, in supporting research based on language resources for historical and ancient languages; handling spelling variation; detection and correction of OCR errors; deciphering; morphological/syntactic/semantic analysis of textual data; adaptation of tools to address diachronic/diatopic/diastratic variation in texts; teaching ancient languages with LTs; NLP-driven theoretical studies in historical linguistics; NLP-driven analysis of literary ancient texts; evaluation of LTs designed for historical and ancient languages; LLMs for the automatic analysis of ancient texts. SHARED TASKS LT4HALA 2026 will host: the 4th edition of EvaLatin <https://circse.github.io/LT4HALA/2026/EvaLatin>, a campaign entirely devoted to the evaluation of NLP tools for Latin. This new edition will focus on two tasks: dependency parsing and Named Entity Recognition. Dependency parsing will be based on the Universal Dependencies framework. the 5th edition of EvaHan <https://circse.github.io/LT4HALA/2026/EvaHan>, the campaign for the evaluation of NLP tools for Ancient Chinese. EvaHan 2026 will focus on Ancient Chinese OCR (Optical Character Recognition) Evaluation. the 2nd edition of EvaCun <https://circse.github.io/LT4HALA/2026/EvaCun>, the campaign for the evaluation of Ancient Cuneiform Languages, with shared tasks on transliteration normalization, morphological analysis and lemmatization, Named Entity Recognition of Akkadian and/or Sumerian. SUBMISSIONS Submissions should be 4 to 8 pages in length and follow the LREC stylesheet (see below). The maximum number of pages excludes potential Ethics Statements and discussion on Limitations, acknowledgements and references, as well as data and code availability statements. Appendices or supplementary material are not permitted during the initial submission phase, as papers should be self-contained and reviewable on their own. Papers must be of original, previously unpublished work. Papers must be anonymized to support double-blind reviewing. Submissions thus must not include authors’ names and affiliations. The submissions should also avoid links to non-anonymized repositories: the code should be either submitted as supplementary material in the final version of the paper, or as a link to an anonymized repository (e.g., Anonymous GitHub or Anonym Share). Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review. Submissions should follow the LREC stylesheet, which is available on the LREC 2026 website on the Author’s kit page <https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/>. Each paper will be reviewed by three independent reviewers. Accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings, which include both oral and poster papers in the same format. Determination of the presentation format (oral vs. poster) is based solely on an assessment of the optimal method of communication (more or less interactive), given the paper content. As for the shared tasks, participants will be required to submit a technical report for each task (with all the related sub-tasks) they took part in. Technical reports will be included in the proceedings as short papers: the maximum length is 4 pages (excluding references) and they should follow the LREC 2026 official format. Reports will receive a light review (we will check for the correctness of the format, the exactness of results and ranking, and overall exposition). All participants will have the possibility to present their results at the workshop. Reports of the shared tasks are not anonymous. WORKSHOP IMPORTANT DATES 17 February 2026: submissions due 13 March 2026: reviews due 16 March 2026: notifications to authors 27 March 2026: camera-ready due Shared tasks deadlines are available in the specific web pages: EvaLatin, EvaHan, EvaCun. Identify, Describe and Share your LRs! 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).

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Open Access journal Philosophy & Digitality (P&D): Update on Special Issues and the Call for Special Issues
by Geiger, Jonathan 01 Feb '26

01 Feb '26

Dear colleagues, Sorry for crossposting. Our Open Access journal Philosophy & Digitality (P&D) has some updates regarding our Special Issues as well as the Call for Special Issues. In July 2025 we could successfully publish our first Special Issue on "LLMs and the Patterns of Human Language Use", edited by Christoph Durt and Sybille Krämer. The link is this: https://journals.ub.uni-koeln.de/index.php/phidi/issue/view/622 . In the issue, you can find papers from Elena Esposito, Wilrich Jeffrey Nieto, Xyh Tamura, Sybille Krämer, David Gunkel, Anna Strasser, Hadi Asghari & Filip Bialy, Shane Denson, M. Beatrice Fazi and Christoph Durt. In December 2025 we could also publish the Introduction of the next Special Issue on "Normative Issues of Affective Computing", edited by Anna Tuschling and Eva Weber-Guskar. The link is this: https://journals.ub.uni-koeln.de/index.php/phidi/issue/view/649 . The papers of this issue will be published as rolling publication during the course of the next months. If you are interested in publishing with us, please have a look at our standing Call for Special Issues. The link is this: https://journals.ub.uni-koeln.de/index.php/phidi/announcement/view/63 . P&D is an international, open access, double-blind reviewed philosophical community journal without publication fees (ISSN 2940-8466). It is supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG). The editorial board is Gabriele Gramelsberger (Aachen, Germany) (Editor in Chief), Sybille Krämer (Luneburg, Germany) and Jörg Noller (Munich, Germany). A special issue focuses on one particular aspect or perspective of the philosophy of digitality. The contributions can be the proceedings of an international conference or workshop (in the near past or future) or an international call for papers. Interested editors can submit a concept for a special issue until the 15th of April 2026. Please send your concept to info(a)phidi.org. After a positive review of the concept by the editorial board of the journal towards the middle of the year, the special issue will then be scheduled for 2027. You can find more information on P&D in general here: https://journals.ub.uni-koeln.de/index.php/phidi/index . Further questions about the journal, issues or formalities can be addressed to info(a)phidi.org. Kind regards, Eric Eggert and Jonathan D. Geiger (journal editors of P&D)

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Call for Abstracts
by Eliana Bergaglio 30 Jan '26

30 Jan '26

Dear all, The PhD students in Digital Humanities at the Universities of Genoa and Turin are pleased to share with you the Call for Abstracts for the 2026 DH Days entitled “Practices, Limits e Perspectives: (In)conveniences in the Digital Humanities”. The event will be held on 25 and 26 May 2026 at the University of Genoa. The conference aims to explore the potential, challenges, and implications of digital technologies in the various fields of arts, linguistics, literature, and education. The initiative aims to encourage interdisciplinary dialogue and promote new connections between PhD students from different research backgrounds, in a manner fully consistent with the vocation of Digital Humanities. The program includes four thematic panels – Art, Entertainment and Heritage; Linguistics, Translation and Language Technologies; Literary and Cultural Research; Educational Technologies and New Learning Environments – which reflect the doctoral curriculum. Keynote speakers of national and international importance will participate at the event, including Prof. Vittorio Gallese (University of Parma), Prof. Stefano Moriggi (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia), Prof. Sophie Robert-Hayek (Sorbonne Université – Paris), and Prof. Giovanni Pietro Vitali (Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University – Paris-Saclay). Deadline for submitting long abstracts (1000–1500 words): 18 February 2026. The attached document contains all the details, thematic areas, guidelines, and useful information for authors. All future updates will be available on the conference website (we recommend checking it regularly for updates): https://digitalhumanities.phd.unige.it/en/node/1313 We would be very grateful if you could share the call within your networks and research communities. For any information, please contact us by replying to this email. Kind regards, The Organising Committee.

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Call for paper: Analysing Cultural Heritage Documents: HTR/OCR, Information Extraction, and Textual Variation
by Elena Pierazzo 29 Jan '26

29 Jan '26

Hello everyone, We are pleased to announce the call for proposals for a workshop organised as part of the ERC PRIMA project, titled "Analysing Cultural Heritage Documents: HTR/OCR, Information Extraction, and Textual Variation". It will take place on Friday, 9 October 2026, in Tours. The aim is to bring together researchers interested in computational approaches applied to the analysis of manuscripts and printed documents. The topics addressed include, in particular: HTR/OCR Data augmentation Clustering Computational palaeography etc. Proposals may be submitted in English or French and should include: an abstract (max 500 words) a short biography (max 5 lines) 3–5 keywords Proposals should be submitted by 15 May 2026. All information (topics, guidelines, timeline) is available here: https://prima.hypotheses.org/3737 We warmly encourage you to participate and to share this announcement within your networks. All the best wishes Elena

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NordiCHI 2026 - 2nd Call for Submissions
by Susanne Hägglund 28 Jan '26

28 Jan '26

2nd Call for Submissions for NordiCHI 2026 in Vaasa, Finland, October 3-7, 2026 **Apologies for cross-postings** We are delighted to share the 2nd Call for Submissions for NordiCHI 2026! Calls for research papers, critiques, panels, industry experience papers, arts-based approaches, workshop proposals, tutorials, demos, late-breaking work, and doctoral consortium contributions for NordiCHI 2026 are available at the conference website: https://nordichi2026.org/ Proceedings of the conference will be published in the ACM Digital Library within its International Conference Proceedings Series (ICPS). The biannual NordiCHI is one of the key venues for Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) research in the world, bringing together a global community of researchers, practitioners, students, and industry experts - including you! In 2026, NordiCHI will take place in Vaasa, Finland on October 3-7. The conference is jointly organized by Åbo Akademi University and University of Vaasa. Professor Yvonne Rogers, Professor Mattia Thibault, and Senior Designer and Deputy Professor Pontus Wärnestål will deliver the keynote addresses at the conference. The conference theme is Pulse – exploring the energy that drives us, representing the dynamic highs and calm lows of life, keeping us thriving. Vaasa is known for both its vibrant energy industry as the Nordic energy cluster and the tranquility of its surrounding nature and UNESCO World Heritage site. Our ambition is for the conference to energize its participants through inspiring encounters and opportunities to truly feel the pulse of the HCI field. Submission deadlines (all AoE): * April 16, 2026: Research Paper abstracts and metadata * April 23, 2026: Research Papers, Critiques, Panels, Arts-Based Approaches, Industry Experience * May 7, 2026: Workshops, Tutorials * May 18, 2026: Late-Breaking Work, Demos, Doctoral Consortium Join us in Vaasa for an inspiring NordiCHI 2026! Warm regards, Susanne Hägglund and Laura Havinen General Chairs NordiCHI 2026 https://nordichi2026.org/

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2026 Open Scholarship Award Nominations due February 20
by Jon Bath 26 Jan '26

26 Jan '26

Call for Nominations: 2026 Open Scholarship Awards We are pleased to announce the 2026 Open Scholarship Awards, sponsored by the Canadian Social Knowledge Institute (c-ski.ca) and its partners! Nominations for the 2026 awards are due by February 20 2026 via <https://forms.gle/H5aHzNwEx7UZmNJr7>https://forms.gle/w1t6Q8L4NmNshmhB7 Open scholarship incorporates open access, open data, open education, and other related movements that have the potential to make scholarly work more efficient, more accessible, and more usable by those within and beyond the academy. By engaging with open practices for academic work, open scholarship shares that work more broadly and more publicly. Awards, Nominations and Eligibility Two 2026 awards are available: ● the Open Scholarship Award, for open scholarship carried out by scholars, librarians, citizen scholars, research professionals, and administrators. ● the Emerging Researcher Open Scholarship Award, for open scholarship carried out by undergraduate students, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and early-stage professionals. For all awards, the successful candidates will have demonstrated exemplary open scholarship via research, projects, or initiatives. Research, initiative, and project types and formats of all sorts, from all areas, are welcome. Note that it is possible to nominate a project group or team. We welcome nominations that span the technical, theoretical, or creative (or any combination thereof). You may nominate yourself or a colleague for these awards. For the winners of previous awards, see https://etcl.uvic.ca/open-scholarship-awards/ Nature of the Awards These awards are intended to acknowledge and celebrate exemplary open scholarship. In addition to the recognition of accomplishment that comes with such acknowledgement, winners will receive one free tuition scholarship, including accommodations, for the 2026 Digital Humanities Summer Institute at Université de Montréal, June 8-12 and 15-19. To Make a Nomination All nominations should be submitted through the form at <https://forms.gle/H5aHzNwEx7UZmNJr7>https://forms.gle/w1t6Q8L4NmNshmhB7 and include the following: ● Name, affiliation, and email address for the nominee; ● Which award the nomination is for (note that you can only submit a nomination to one award category); ● Title and URL of the project, research, or initiative; ● A short abstract for the project, research, or initiative; ● A justification for why the nominee should be considered for an award; ● Contact information for the nominator. Please note that letters of support are not required for nomination. All nominations for the 2026 awards must be received by February 20 2026 via <https://forms.gle/H5aHzNwEx7UZmNJr7>https://forms.gle/w1t6Q8L4NmNshmhB7 Questions? Please email jon.bath(a)usask.ca with any questions or concerns you might have! We look forward to hearing from you. About the Canadian Social Knowledge Institute The Canadian Social Knowledge Institute (C-SKI) actively engages issues related to open social scholarship: creating and sharing research and research technologies in ways that are accessible and significant to a broad audience that includes specialists and active non-specialists. Representing, coordinating, and supporting the work of the Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE) Partnership, C-SKI activities include awareness raising, knowledge mobilization, training, public engagement, scholarly communication, and pertinent research and development on local, national, and international levels. Originated in 2015, C-SKI is located in the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab in the Digital Scholarship Commons at UVic. C-SKI’s partners, through INKE, include: Advanced Research Consortium (ARC), Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL), Canadian Institute for Studies in Publishing (CISP), Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN), Compute Canada Federation, Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory (CWRC), Digital Humanities Research Group (DHRG; U Western Sydney), Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI), Electronic Textual Cultures Lab (ETCL), Edith Cowan U, Érudit, Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Iter: Gateway to the Renaissance, J.E. Halliwell Associates, Public Knowledge Project (PKP), Simon Fraser U Library, U Victoria Libraries, and Voyant Tools, among others.

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Call for Proposals: Living Books about History
by Enrico Natale 26 Jan '26

26 Jan '26

‘Living Books about History <https://www.livingbooksabouthistory.ch/en/>’ is a collection of digital anthologies on current research topics. Each volume will feature an essay written by the editors as well as a selection of annotated texts and research resources. These contributions may include online resources such as open source articles, images, films, websites, or sound recordings. The project offers an innovative form of scientific publication that experiments with the possibilities offered by digital media. It revives the anthology format by virtually compiling scientific papers alongside their sources and resources. Readers can participate in ‘Living Books about History’ by suggesting further contributions, which will be added to the table of contents after approval by the editors. ‘Living Books about History’ showcases noteworthy and hitherto neglected scientific publications and sources on current topics. The selection made by the editors serves as a filter that distinguishes remarkable contributions from the mass of information available online. The project aims to reinforce the principles of ‘Open Science’. The 12 volumes published to date are available online, in both English and a second language. Types of Proposals Expected: infoclio.ch is launching a new series of ‘Living Books about History’ in 2026. The collection publishes research primarily in the field of historical sciences but welcomes diverse perspectives from other disciplinary fields. Proposals may address a variety of topics, without chronological, or geographical restrictions. The selected sources and scientific papers shed light on the respective research topics from different perspectives. ‘Living Books about History’ can have different objectives, such as providing a historiographical overview of a research trend, defining the contours of a new area of study, offering an introduction to a topic, illustrating different ways of interpreting a specific corpus of sources, or analyzing the challenges of a paradigm shift. Format of ‘Living Books about History’: Each volume consists of an original introduction of 20,000 to 40,000 characters and a selection of 20 to 30 resources already available online, accompanied by a brief commentary. Each volume is assigned a DOI and an ISBN. Submission of Proposals: This call for proposals is open to advanced researchers. We welcome proposals for volumes in the form of an abstract of no more than 4,000 characters outlining the theme and focus of the project, 2-3 examples of online resources to be included in the anthology, and a short CV of the editors. Proposals may be submitted in English, French, or German. The deadline for submitting proposals is March 20, 2026. Notification of accepted proposals will be sent on April 2, 2026. Please send proposals by email to: livingbooks(a)infoclio.ch <mailto:[email protected]> Accepted anthologies will be published during the summer and fall of 2026. The costs of editing and online publication will be covered in full by infoclio.ch (Diamond Open Access). If the text is written in a language other than English, editors are invited to participate in fundraising for translation. Contact: ‘Living Books about History’ is a publishing project of infoclio.ch, the Swiss professional portal for historical sciences. infoclio.ch is an institute of the Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences (SAGW). Questions can be addressed to Enrico Natale: enrico.natale(a)infoclio.ch <mailto:[email protected]> Enrico Natale infoclio.ch Gutenbergstrasse 37 3011 Bern Tel: +41 31 311 75 72 Abonnez-vous à la newsletter <https://www.infoclio.ch/fr/newsletter> d’infoclio.ch Follow infoclio.ch on Mastodon <https://fedihum.org/@infoclio> À découvrir: Perspectives on the History of Forecasting <https://www.chronos-verlag.ch/public-download/4873> Histoire et informatique #24, 2025.

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[CfP: SemDH 2026]
by Bruno Sartini 26 Jan '26

26 Jan '26

Dear all Apologies for crossposting. I gladly share with you the call for papers and panels of the third Edition of the International Workshop of Semantic Digital Humanities, that will be held on May 10th or 11th in Dubrovnik, Croatia, co-located with the Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) CFP: Exploration, analysis, and preservation of the rich cultural and historical tapestry of the world are essential for our understanding of humanity's past and shaping our future. In recent years, there has been increased interest in the creation and application of Ontologies, Knowledge Graphs, and other Semantic Web Technologies within Cultural Heritage (CH) and Digital Humanities (DH). However, to date, the distinct areas of expertise, methodologies and traditions across the fields have led to a noticeable gap between tech solutions and humanities’ needs. The aim of the International Workshop of Semantic Digital Humanities (SemDH) is to bridge this division and encourage closer collaboration and networking across diverse fields. To accomplish this goal, we invite all members of Semantic Web, CH and DH communities actively involved in the development of systematic approaches and advanced technologies for handling heterogeneous, diverse and challenging humanities data. This includes, but is not limited to, constructing and utilizing of knowledge graphs for the humanities, extracting and representing knowledge from historical texts, data linking across disciplines, enriching semantics of historical records and biographies, analyzing social networks, ontology adoption, extension and evaluation for specific domains. In addition, it includes the exploitation of recent technologies, e.g. LLM(s), in the context of semantic technologies, to tackle the diverse challenges associated with working with data in the humanities domain. We welcome presentations that not only focus on technological endeavours but also explore the analysis of CH and DH data landscape through the perspective of philosophical, historical, social, and other research questions. Apart from research, resource and work-in-progress papers, we encourage the audience to submit panel proposals. By this, authors will be provided with a platform to share and discuss their challenges and/or showcase research findings by gaining immediate feedback from diverse perspectives encompassing computer science, humanities, and cultural heritage. Workshop topics: - Fundamental Concepts and Questions in Digital Humanities (DH) Research - Vocabulary, Schema, Ontology Development and Design Methodologies in DH - Application of Formal Ontologies (UFO, BFO, etc.) in DH - Practical Use of Standard Ontologies (CIDOC-CRM, FRBR) in DH: Case Studies, Challenges and Lessons Learnt - Harmonization of established standards like TEI, MEI, LIDO and Ontologies - Philosophical and Sociological Analysis of DH Models and Modeling Practices - Social Studies on Ontology Standardization Policies in DH - Temporal Knowledge Graphs in Context of DH - Semantic Web Applications for DH - Software Architectures, Structural Frameworks and Infrastructures for DH KGs - Interoperability and Linking in DH - Application of FAIR Principles and KG-based Data Curation Strategies in DH - (Automated) Construction of Knowledge Graphs for DH - Searching, Querying, and Visualization of DH Knowledge Graphs - Natural Language Processing (NLP) for Knowledge Extraction in DH Research - Workflows and Tools for Knowledge Extraction in DH, e.g. Crowdsourcing - Access Management, Trust and Provenance in the DH context - Evaluation of DH Ontologies and KGs: Methods, Metrics and Criteria - Retrieval Augmented Generation techniques applied to DH KG - Agentic AI applied to cultural heritage knowledge graphs All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome: - Full Papers (10-15 pages including references) - Short Papers (5-9 pages including references) - Panel Proposals (2-3 pages, including references) Full papers are expected to showcase innovative and substantive research at the intersection of Digital Humanities and the Semantic Web, presenting results and evaluations. Short papers may share intermediate results, ongoing research, positions and ideas within these fields. We welcome any types of research, resource and application papers, as well as (short only) demonstration submissions. Both full and short papers will undergo review based on the following criteria: - Relevance to the workshop - Grounding in the literature and related work - Originality and soundness - Potential influence and significance - Reproducibility and availability of resources - Design and execution of evaluation (for full papers) Panel proposals should include a motivation of a highly relevant while controversial topic with suggestions for panellists and description of their expertise towards the topic. Panel proposals will be peer-reviewed, based on: - Relevance to the workshop - Grounding in the literature - Potential significance and impact - Clear presentation of controversial topics After the workshop, the authors of panel proposals will be given two additional pages to extend their abstracts with insights of the panel discussion for publication in the proceedings. Deadline: March 3rd 2026 All submissions must be written in English and formatted using the template for submissions to CEUR Workshop Proceedings <https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/template-for-submissions-to-ceur-w…>. All papers and proposals have to be submitted electronically via EasyChair <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semdh2026>. All questions about submissions should be emailed to semdh2026(a)easychair.org . Best, Bruno

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Code & Culture talk (17.11): Analyzing Nature-Culture Entanglements at Scale (Burghardt)
by Digital Humanities Potsdam 23 Jan '26

23 Jan '26

Dear colleagues, The Digital Humanities Network at the University of Potsdam cordially invites you to the next lecture in the 'Code & Culture' talk series. This semester, we will have a special focus on digital environmental humanities, preparing the ground for our "Environments in and as Networks" Hackathon (Potsdam, 15-17.04.2026; more details and registration: https://www.uni-potsdam.de/en/digital-humanities/events/environmental-digit…) Our first guest is *Manuel Burghardt* (University of Leipzig), with a talk titled "*Analyzing Nature-Culture Entanglements at Scale: The Case for Computational Environmental Humanities*/"/*//*(full abstract here <https://www.uni-potsdam.de/en/digital-humanities/activities/code-culture-le…>). The lecture will take place on* Monday 17 November** 2025*, 17:00 (CET), online via Zoom. Please register here to get the Zoom link: https://www.uni-potsdam.de/en/digital-humanities/activities/code-culture-le…. Best wishes, DH Network Potsdam +++ *Netzwerk für Digitale Geisteswissenschaften der Universität Potsdam* /Potenzialbereich an der Philosophischen Fakultät/ Web: https://www.uni-potsdam.de/de/digital-humanities Mail: digital-humanities(a)uni-potsdam.de Sprecher:innen: Prof. Dr. Birgit Schneider, Prof. Dr. Peer Trilcke Wissenschaftlicher Koordinator: Dr. Luca Giovannini Board des Netzwerks: Dr. Anna Busch, Prof. Dr. Annette Gerstenberg, Prof. Dr. Katharina Wesselmann, Prof. Dr. Miriam Rürup, Prof. Dr. Anja Schwarz, Prof. Dr. Ilja A. Seržant +++

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2026 International Research Software Engineering Survey
by Michael Donnay 22 Jan '26

22 Jan '26

Dear colleagues, The Software Sustainability Institute, alongside our international partners, have launched the 2026 International RSE Survey <https://www.software.ac.uk/news/2026-international-rse-survey> to help better understand what research software engineers need and how we can advocate for the community. We are particularly interested in the perspectives of those working in the digital arts, humanities and social sciences, even if you don’t identify as a research software engineer. Your formal job title does not matter - if you write code for research as part of your work, we want to hear from you. The RSE Survey produces an incredibly valuable trove of data that anyone can use to understand the RSE community, including national associations, funders and policymakers. Please help us provide this data and support the RSE community by completing the survey. You can complete the 2026 International RSE Survey in *English <https://softwaresaved.limequery.com/611257?lang=en>*, *French <https://softwaresaved.limequery.com/611257?lang=fr>*, *German <https://softwaresaved.limequery.com/611257?lang=de-informal>* or *Spanish <https://softwaresaved.limequery.com/611257?lang=es>*. The survey collects a considerable amount of detail about your role, the type of work you conduct, your working practices, job satisfaction and demographics. This means it takes around 20 minutes to complete - we appreciate that this is a significant amount of your time to donate and we thank you for it! The survey closes on 20 March 2026. The survey is being conducted with ethics approval from the University of Southampton (Ethics application number: ERGO/FEPS/108663) and for participants in South Africa by the University of Cape Town Inter-Faculty Human Research Ethics Committee (IFHREC) - IFHREC/02301/2025. The first page of the survey tells you everything about the conduct of the survey, our approach to privacy and data protection, and your rights as a participant in the survey. If you’d like to discuss the survey further or have any questions, please get in touch: m.j.donnay(a)software.ac.uk Cheers, Michael -- Michael Donnay Community Manager Software Sustainability Institute University of Southampton *www.software.ac.uk <http://www.software.ac.uk>*

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