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Computational Literary Studies. Universität Würzburg, Germany. http://www.jannidis.de/publications.html

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Narrative Similarity Task @narrativesimtask.bsky.social · Aug 27

Our development data is now available, and the competition has opened on CodaBench. Whether it's chat models, symbolic story representations, or something else entirely, every approach is welcome. We are looking forward to your submissions!

www.codabench.org/competitions...

SemEval 2026 Task 4: Narrative Similarity - Codabench

www.codabench.org

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Narrative Similarity Task @narrativesimtask.bsky.social · Aug 1

🚨 Shared Task Alert! 🚨
We are announcing the shared task on narrative similarity: SemEval-2026 Task 4: Narrative Story Similarity and Narrative Representation Learning

We invite you to benchmark LLMs, embedding models, or even test your favorite narrative formalism. Sample data is now available!

SemEval-2026 Task 4: Narrative Story Similarity and Narrative Representation Learning

narrative-similarity-task.github.io

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Artjoms Šeļa @artjomshl.bsky.social · Jul 4

⚡ CFP: a themed issue in Computational Humanities Research!

Meaning, Form, and History in Computational Poetics: if you work on all things verse, all things form, in any language, consider submitting!

for questions reach out to me or @nmhouston.bsky.social !

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Call for Papers @ CHR: Meaning, Form, and History in Computational Poetics

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JCLS @jcls-io.bsky.social · Jul 4

Not had enough of #CCLS2025 yet? Next year is already our fifth anniversary! Get excited for #CCLS2026 in Potsdam! @dhpotsdam.bsky.social 🥳
#ComputationalLiteraryStudies #CLS #DH #LiteraryComputing

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Jean Barré @jbarre.bsky.social · Jun 16

I had fun presenting some of my PhD obsessions about the french detective novel in Würzburg.
Thank you @fotisjannidis.bsky.social for the invitation ! The whole team is impressive, brand new building and talented people, the future of DH is actually here 🤩

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CRETA e.V. @cretaverein.bsky.social · Jun 2

📚 Du planst oder schreibst eine Dissertation in Literaturwissenschaft, Philosophie oder Linguistik & möchtest digitale Methoden integrieren?
Dann bewirb dich jetzt für unser CRETA-Coaching & lerne unser Expertenteam kennen!
Alle Infos: cretaverein.de/coach...
#DigitalHumanities #CRETAcoaching

Coaching 2024 | CRETA

Das dezentrale Center for Reflected Text Analytics

cretaverein.de

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Andres Karjus @andreskarjus.bsky.social · May 5

While NSF freezes funding and UK leading unis cut departments, EU still supports important research. 2 Horizon funded centres in #Tartu #Estonia hiring phds&postdocs right now in CSS, AI, DH, text corpora. See
- post below
- DigiTS ut.ee/en/job-offer... (our good colleagues in humanities).

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · Apr 10

15 positions in AI at Paris Sciences et Lettres, computational social science and ethics very much included. I believe these are four-year "fellow" positions requiring some teaching during that term. #MLSky recrutement.psl.eu/en/pnp8wd2rbs

Fellow in Artificial Intelligence - Paris School of AI | PSL

Contract : 4 years fixed term Start of contract : September, 1st, 2025

recrutement.psl.eu

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · Mar 8

It's been delayed a little, but here — at last — is the CFP for Schmidt Sciences' Humanities and AI Virtual Institute, to support research "at the intersection of AI and the humanities." Expressions of interest are due April 4th. Pls RT! www.schmidtsciences.org/humanities-a...

Humanities and AI Virtual Institute - Schmidt Sciences

www.schmidtsciences.org

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Konstantin Freybe @konnrex87.bsky.social · Mar 5

Hi academic people! In case you missed it: The German National Library offers access to its huge collection in the "DH Call"

You can still apply until 30 April 2025
More info in this website. If you need help, contact me and I'll try my best!

www.dnb.de/EN/Professio...

Digital Humanities Call

www.dnb.de

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · Dec 11

Two tenure-track positions in AI at the School of Information Sciences, UIUC. Artificial intelligence is broadly construed here to include AI policy, governance, ethics, AI for cultural heritage, &c. Review of applications will start Jan 6th. Please RT and share! #MLSky #NeurIPS

Tenure-Track Faculty Positions in Artificial Intelligence-School of Information Sciences

The School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois invites applications from qualified individuals for 100% full-time Tenure-Track Facul...

illinois.csod.com

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Ben Schmidt @bschmidt.bsky.social · Dec 11

Google quietly updated their ngrams viewer again this year. The books used appear to be extremely different yet again--the rate of the words "she said" are about 60% what they were in the 20th century compared to the 2019 release, and just 20% compared to 2009. But there's a catch:

Four line charts showing the same words -- 'she said' plotted in four different corpora on the google ngrams viewer. The words are much less common in the 2019 and most recent version through the 20th century, and spike up sharply after 2000.

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Digital Humanities Potsdam @dhpotsdam.bsky.social · Dec 6

The next Computational Humanities Research conference #CHR2025 will take place at the Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH) in Luxembourg! 🇱🇺

#CHR2024

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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · Dec 3

Reminder that we have two open calls for special issues, as well as a general call, deadline Jan 1.

Missing Data in the Humanities: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

LLMs in Humanities Research: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Missing Data in the Humanities

Call for Papers: Missing Data in the Humanities

www.cambridge.org

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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · Dec 3

At the intro meeting at #CHR2024 for the new Computational Humanities Research Journal.

Q: If a piece is published at the conference, does it also appear in the journal?

A: No, need to submit separately. Journal articles should be a bit longer, maybe include more experiments.

Computational Humanities Research | Cambridge Core

Computational Humanities Research

www.cambridge.org

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Fotis Jannidis @fotisjannidis.bsky.social · Nov 27

That is so useful. Thanks a lot!

Frank Fischer @umblaetterer.bsky.social · Nov 27

Ok, we just tabularised the @spiegel.de literary canon 1924–2024 & enriched it with #Wikidata, #Goodreads, GND IDs for authors and works. Feel free to toy around with it. More to follow soonish…

GitHub repo:
github.com/temporal-com...

@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social #EXC2020 "Temporal Communities"

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Frank Fischer @umblaetterer.bsky.social · Nov 27

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Fotis Jannidis @fotisjannidis.bsky.social · Nov 26

Sehr interessant! Muss man vor Ort sein oder gibt es einen Zugang via Zoom?

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mia @miaout.bsky.social · Nov 22

Yikes, how is it nearly the end of November? If you're into the Digital Humanities in any form and want to present at #DH2025, proposals are due 1 Dec dh2025.adho.org/call-for-pro...

Call for Proposals – DH2025

dh2025.adho.org

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Fotis Jannidis @fotisjannidis.bsky.social · Nov 13

The program looks amazing. Looking forward to another great CHR conference.

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Federico Pianzola @fpianz.bsky.social · Nov 4

Finally my book has a cover!

Digital Social Reading: Sharing Fiction in the 21st Century.

Out 21 January 2025 in open access.
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255091...
#culturalanalytics @unigroningen.bsky.social

Digital Social Reading

How digital social reading apps are powerfully changing—and nurturing—the way we read.Conventional wisdom would have us believe that digital technology i...

mitpress.mit.edu

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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · Oct 28

Hi narrative & dh folks - of the DH crowd, who is coming to CHR in Denmark in Dec? I am pondering a mini-workshop at the intersection of narrative gen and DH, basically to get friends (and me) together so everyone meets? cc @tedunderwood.me @andrewpiper.bsky.social @mariaa.bsky.social #games #dh

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ACH @ach.bsky.social · Oct 24

Digital Humanities 2025 will be hosted by Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal) July 14-18, 2025. The CFP is now open and proposals are due Dec 1st! #DH2025 @dh2025lisbon.bsky.social

Call for Proposals – DH2025

Digital Humanities 2025

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William J.B. Mattingly @wjbmattingly.bsky.social · Oct 3

Does anyone use Transkribus that has annotations of historical handwriting? I'm going to be training open-source fine-tuned Qwen 2 VL models over the next few months. If you would like to have a free open-source model trained on your data, please comment here.

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James Cummings @jamescummings.bsky.social · Aug 18

The TEI Consortium has posted its 'In Memoriam' for Dr C. Michael Sperberg-McQueen:
tei-c.org/2024/08/18/c...
😢😭

A loss to the world and those interested in text technologies. We'll remember him at #TEI2024 and always.

#RIP #XML #XSD #iXML #W3C #XSLT #TEI

C. Michael Sperberg-McQueen (1954 – 2024): In Memoriam – TEI: Text Encoding Initiative

tei-c.org

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DH 2024 @dh2024.bsky.social · Aug 9

Congratulations to the team who will be hosting #DH2026 in Daejeon, Korea!

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · Jun 17

More info on DH 2024 bursaries: Recipients do not need to be on the conference program and do not need to be members of ACH or another ADHO CO. We want to encourage folks who might not otherwise attend the DH conference to participate. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

DH 2024 Bursaries

Deadline for Applications: July 1, 2024 Notification by July 10, 2024 With the generous support of the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) and...

docs.google.com

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