Seminar: Experiments with stylometric distant reading too many books, or is there evolution in literature, or what happens to target language in translation, or what is poetry, and many other things • 28 November 2023

Event organised by the Computational Humanities research group To register to the seminar and obtain the link to the call, please fill in this form. 28 November 2023 – 3pm GMT King’s College London (in person) and MSTeams (remote) Jan Rybicki (Jagiellonian University of Kraków, Poland), Experiments with stylometric distant reading too many books, or is there evolution …

Seminar: Using AI to broaden access to historical archives• 21 November 2023

Event organised by the Computational Humanities research group To register to the seminar and obtain the link to the call, please fill in this form. 21 November 2023 – 3pm GMT Remote – Microsoft Teams Giovanni Colavizza (University of Bologna, Italy), Using AI to broaden access to historical archives Abstract Artificial Intelligence (AI) is crucial in …

Seminar: A digital journeying around • 12 September 2023

Event organised by the Computational Humanities research group To register for the event, please fill in the following form: https://forms.gle/YT5k2Pqxv2DKNY6b6. 12 September 2023 – 3pm BST King’s College London, Bush House (SE) 1.03, (in person) and MSTeams (remote) Elton Barker (The Open University, United Kingdom), A digital journeying around Abstract Writing in the second century CE, …

High-dimensional cinema • 6 July 2023

Join this panel and discover how Artificial Intelligence and related technologies are reshaping the production and understanding of audiovisual culture.  

Seminar: Museums online: defining and evaluating success • 5 June 2023

Event organised by the Computational Humanities research group 5 June 2023 King’s College London, Bush House NE 2.01, 2 pm (in person only) Ellen Charlesworth (Durham University, United Kingdom), Museums online: defining and evaluating success Abstract During the COVID-19 national lockdowns, there was a significant increase in the amount of content UK museums uploaded online. By …

Workshop: Sculpting Time with Computers

Researchers from leading laboratories in cultural informatics come together to discuss the past, present, and future, of computational moving images.

Seminar: placing Greek inscriptions with machine learning • 23 May 2023

Event organised by the Computational Humanities research group 23 May 2023 3pm BST (remote) Thea Sommerschield (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy), Restoring, dating and placing Greek inscriptions with machine learning: the Ithaca project Abstract Ithaca is the first deep neural network for the textual restoration, geographical attribution and chronological attribution of ancient Greek inscriptions. …

Seminar: Latin BERT for Word Sense Disambiguation • 16 May 2023

Event organised by the Computational Humanities research group 16 May 2023 3pm BST (remote) Piroska Lendvai and Claudia Wick (Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Germany), Finetuning Latin BERT for Word Sense Disambiguation on the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae Abstract The Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL) is a comprehensive monolingual dictionary that records contextualized meanings and usages of …

Seminar: Historical Language Models and their application to Word Sense Disambiguation • 9 May 2023 3pm

Event organised by the Computational Humanities research group 9 May 2023 3pm BST (remote) Enrique Manjavacas (Leiden University, The Netherlands), Historical Language Models and their application to Word Sense Disambiguation Abstract Large Language Models (LLMs) have become the cornerstone of current methods in Computational Linguistics. As the Humanities look towards computational methods in order to …