Recent years have seen great advances in the development of models that allow for the study of language in exciting ways. Yet, despite the availability of these tools and the enormous potential of their application to historical and other humanities data, their utilisation for research in the humanities has been challenging. This workshop, taking place on March 20, 2025, offers a gentle introduction to the use of contextual language models for humanities research. We invite all scholars and graduate students to use our infrastructure for text analysis on their own research questions and/or data.
The workshop will introduce researchers to the infrastructure developed in the Open eScience project Semantics of Sustainability, which allows users to do advanced text analysis on Dutch Parliamentary Data (1813-2022) and data provided by the National Library (KB) in The Hague: newspapers, books, magazines, and the ANP (20th Century). This workshop is organised in tandem with a conference on AI and Dutch historical texts that will take place at the National Library at The Hague on the 21st of March 2025. Both of these events are organised by the Semantics of Sustainability project in collaboration with the National Library (KB), the Netherlands eScience Centre, and the Centre for Digital Humanities at Utrecht University.
Submissions are now open, though there is a limited number of spots available. Interested participants can find more information about the workshop, the target audience and signing up on the Semantics of Sustainability website.
Deadline for applying is on 20th of January 2025.