A point of consensus that emerged tacitly in #CHR2024: memorization is not creating big distortions for literary research using LLMs. Eg in paper #96, Zhang, Seminck, & Amsili conclude "overall, the degree of memorization was low." And echoed later in same panel by @dbamman.bsky.social. +

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"With every cabinet change there was an epistemic reset" — Melvin Wevers @melvinwevers and Ruben Ros @rubenros present their computational study of Post-World War II Dutch parliamentary debate, which involved network analysis, community detection, and topic modeling
Paper: https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3834/paper39.pdf
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Awesome! The #CHR2025 edition will take place at #C2DH in #Luxembourg! That's a great place for this conference (and right around the corner from @tcdh at #Trier University).

"Small country, big ambitions."

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#CHR2024 is almost over... it was an awesome conference! Very high quality of the talks, great food, wonderful people!

(The only thing I have not been impressed with is that #CHR2024 is definitely, and sadly, NOT happening here on #Mastodon.)

Heard about so many models, tools and methods here at #CHR2024: Could I please have a few months off to try them all out on our various datasets?

Here's the link to the abstract and paper: https://2024.computational-humanities-research.org/papers/paper102/

And here's the link to an interactive showcase, where you can play around with the data: https://edabel.shinyapps.io/setlist-variety/

Of course, the data is there as well: https://github.com/edabel/setlist-variety

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💯 I honestly did not know what to expect from my last talk at #CHR2024, on some statistics regarding setlists of bands on their tours, but blown away by the actually really fascinating trends and patterns in the data: Which songs are played almost always, which ones only once, when looking at the shows in a tour. Different shapes for different bands at different times, and interesting patterns where cover songs are used: in the shelf (core repertoire) or the tail (singletons). Kudos to Ed Abel!

Now up at #CHR2024, a paper on historical "arrest patterns" in Brussels, by Folgert Karsdorp @folgertk, Mike Kestemont and Margo de Koster.

Abstract and link to full paper here: https://2024.computational-humanities-research.org/papers/paper13/

(Image is not about arrests, but first slide to illustrate diversity in a collection, which is their approach to the data.)

Super useful study, Direct and Indirect Annotation with Generative AI: A Case Study into Finding Animals and Plants in Historical Text. 2024.computational-humanities-research.org/papers/paper... #chr2024

The #multilingualism sesssion at #CHR2024 is going strong!

Fascinating talk by @laurenfklein at #CHR2024! She explored the influence of (Critical) #Theory on modeling in the #DigitalHumanities, emphasizing theory-driven modeling and the interpretation of such models as fundamentally humanistic endeavors. Highlights included her work on social media discourses around #BlackLivesMatter, abolitionist networks in historical newspapers, and more. #DHTheorie #DHTheory

"Let's say you are a Norwegian cat historian...and want to find all the cat images in books!" — Marie Roald of the National Library of Norway presents an image search for pre-1900 books, based on the SigLIP embeddings 🐈‍⬛🐈🔍📚
Paper: https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3834/paper55.pdf
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It’s alive! In our project „Animacy in German Folktales” we annotated animacy in a literary corpus and built a classifier. Results where just presented at the wonderful #CHR2024 in Aarhus, Denmark. Keep on reading for a brief summary of the key arguments. #DH #CLS @comphumresearch (1/6)

Congrats, @josecalvo, for this review of your book!

"It is the reference works of this kind, with a rigorous methodological approach, that predict a prolific and promising future for the development of digital humanities."

In the book, José uses corpus and computational methods for genre analysis in the Spanish novel of the Silver Age:

Full review by Isabel Moyano Moreno (in Spanish): https://revistascientificas.us.es/index.php/PH/article/view/25147

José's book (OA): https://www.bielefeld-university-press.org/978-3-8376-5925-2/the-novel-in-the-spanish-silver-age/?number=978-3-8394-5925-6

@fotis_jannidis @jcls #CHR2024

Yay someone using SigLIP. Info on SigLIP huggingface.co/docs/transfo... #chr2024

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CLIP search for 562K maps in Lib of Congress github.com/j-mahowald/c... Paper: 2024.computational-humanities-research.org/papers/paper... #chr2024

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Is there a difference in the number of scenes per act between German one-act plays and other German plays of the same era? What about the number of characters? From which languages were one-act plays translated into German?
@DilanCakir & Viktor Illmer present some #Einakter findings 🎭 at #CHR2024
Paper: https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3834/paper86.pdf

Nice metadata-based infovis/search for documentary photos from Taylor Arnold and Laurent Tilton, Photogrammar. photogrammar.org/maps #chr2024

Now up, at #chr2024 "Explainable Search and Discovery of Visual Cultural Heritage Collections with Multimodal Large Language Models" by Taylor Arnold and Lauren Tilton!

About the "#Documerica" collection of photos from the 1970s. Fascinating material!

Check out the collection here: https://www.archives.gov/research/environment/documerica-topics

Funny how #CHR2024 boasts „full participation for everyone“ after banning scholars from Russia & Belarus from taking part. Regardless of whether these restrictions make sense, I'm afraid you can’t claim you „embrace“ full participation if you chose to adhere to them