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Mittelhochdeutsche Begriffsdatenbank @mhdbdb.bsky.social · 2d

Jetzt aber schnell: Bis zum 12.10. noch für den kostenlosen Workshop anmelden! Mit @fnieser.bsky.social vom @hcdh.bsky.social und @chpollin.bsky.social von @dhcraft.bsky.social dhsalzburg.hypotheses.org/5820 @fb-germanistik.bsky.social @unisalzburg.bsky.social

Interdisziplinärer Workshop “Von historischen Daten zu KI”

Veranstaltung für Studierende & Promovierende der Digital Humanities, Mediävistik und Informatik, 24./25. Oktober 2025, IZMF Salzburg Zeitplan: 24. Oktober 2025 Ab14:00 Ankommen & Kennenlernen bei K...

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Dr Katrín Lísa L. Mikaelsdóttir @vanlinduist.bsky.social · Sep 2

We're kicking off our #DH lecture series next Tuesday 😊
Don't miss out on it!

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EPFL AI Center @epfl-ai-center.bsky.social · Sep 2

EPFL, @ethz.ch and the @cscsch.bsky.social released Apertus today, Switzerland’s first large-scale, open, multilingual language model — a milestone in generative AI for transparency and diversity.

Find out more here: ai.epfl.ch/apertus-a-fu...

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Apertus: a fully open, transparent, multilingual language model - EPFL AI Center

EPFL, ETH Zurich and the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) released Apertus today, Switzerland’s first large-scale, open, multilingual language model — a milestone in generative AI for trans...

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Thomas Renkert @thomasrenkert.bsky.social · Sep 2

Big News! The completely #opensource #LLM #Apertus 🇨🇭 has been released today:

📰 https://www.swisscom.ch/en/about/news/2025/09/02-apertus.html

🤝 The model supports over 1800 languages and respects opt-out consent of data owners. [1/5]

Data Protection and Copyright Requests
For removal requests of personally identifiable information (PII) or of copyrighted content, please contact the respective dataset owners or us directly

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Mittelhochdeutsche Begriffsdatenbank @mhdbdb.bsky.social · Aug 12

"Von historischen Daten zu KI": Interdisziplinärer Workshop der Digital Humanities, Mediävistik & Informatik im Oktober an der Uni Salzburg! Meldet euch an - es ist umsonst. Wenn ihr in Heidelberg studiert, gibt es durch die Kooperation mit dem @hcdh.bsky.social Reisekostenuntersützung. 🤲

von historischen Daten zu KI Interdisziplinärer Workshop
Digital Humanities, Mediävistik & Informatik Anmeldung dh@plus.ac.at

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Heidelberg Center for Digital Humanities - HCDH @hcdh.bsky.social · Jul 13

In a recent project and collaboration with fundamental Physics it could be shown, that it is possible and effective to incorporate an out-of-domain LLM in a simulation of astrophysical data consisting only of non-linguistic data. More informations on how this was achieved: arxiv.org/abs/2506.14757

Large Language Models -- the Future of Fundamental Physics?

For many fundamental physics applications, transformers, as the state of the art in learning complex correlations, benefit from pretraining on quasi-out-of-domain data. The obvious question is whether...

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Heidelberg School of Education @hse-heidelberg.bsky.social · Jul 14

🤖 Lust auf intensives Teamwork mit #KI?
‼️ Bei unserem mit @hcdh.bsky.social ausgebrachten kollaborativen #KIHackathon am Mi, 13-16 Uhr, sind noch wenige Plätze für Lehrende/Studierende @uniheidelberg.bsky.social / #PHHD frei!

#KI #AI #KITeamwork #LLMs #FutureLiteracies #HigherEd #Lehrkräftebildung

Von der Kooperation zur Kompetenz und noch viel weiter | Heidelberg School of Education

Wie kann KI als Teammitglied die Arbeit in Studium, Unterricht und beruflicher Praxis bereichern? Kollaborativer KI-Hackathon für Studierende von PH und Universität Heidelberg sowie interessierte Dozi...

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Heidelberg Center for Digital Humanities - HCDH @hcdh.bsky.social · Jul 13

In a recent project and collaboration with fundamental Physics it could be shown, that it is possible and effective to incorporate an out-of-domain LLM in a simulation of astrophysical data consisting only of non-linguistic data. More informations on how this was achieved: arxiv.org/abs/2506.14757

Large Language Models -- the Future of Fundamental Physics?

For many fundamental physics applications, transformers, as the state of the art in learning complex correlations, benefit from pretraining on quasi-out-of-domain data. The obvious question is whether...

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Heidelberg Center for Digital Humanities - HCDH @hcdh.bsky.social · Jun 13

On June 2nd, the HCDH and @hse-heidelberg.bsky.social collaborated on a workshop titled "AI teamwork - Achieving more together". Thanks to our hosts, @fnieser.bsky.social and @thomasrenkert.bsky.social, and all the participants for the insightful afternoon!

Read the report: hcdh.hypotheses.org/3098

“AI in Application”: AI teamwork – Achieving more together

What does productive collaboration with AI actually look like in everyday university life? In the latest workshop of the “AI in Application” series, hosted by Dr. Florian Nieser and Dr. Thomas Renkert...

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Thomas Renkert @thomasrenkert.bsky.social · Jun 2

Legende:

🚬: Bitte vermeiden weil ungesund!

🍿: wenig Einfluss möglich: enjoy the show

🍷: ambivalent - in Maßen und mit kritischem Blick ok

🥦: vernünftige, nachhaltige Praxis

Wir = @hcdh.bsky.social (@fnieser.bsky.social) & @hse-heidelberg.bsky.social

#KIMündigkeit #AI #LLM #uniheidelberg #phhd

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Heidelberg Center for Digital Humanities - HCDH @hcdh.bsky.social · May 30

Analyzing temporal rhetorics in political discourse using #TextMining, #NLP and Artificial Intelligence: Our Chronorhetorics project is now on GitHub!

Check it out here: github.com/HCDH-Uni-Hei...

#HCDH #Chronorhetorics #AI #GitHub

GitHub - HCDH-Uni-Heidelberg/chronorhetorics-corpus: A large-scale corpus of political speeches for analyzing temporal figures and political enforcement patterns in times of change.

A large-scale corpus of political speeches for analyzing temporal figures and political enforcement patterns in times of change. - HCDH-Uni-Heidelberg/chronorhetorics-corpus

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Heidelberg Center for Digital Humanities - HCDH @hcdh.bsky.social · Apr 24

On 02.04.25, the third workshop of the series "We've got the data - what now?" took place, this time with an introduction to Corpus Analysis. Thanks to Jonathan Gaede & David Schatz for the successful workshop and thanks to all participants!

Read the report here:
hcdh.hypotheses.org/2827

#HCDH

“We’ve got the data – what now?”: Corpus Analysis

The third session of the workshop series “We’ve got the data – what now?” offered an introduction to corpus analysis. Jonathan Gaede, who prepared this workshop with David Schatz, guided participants ...

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Heidelberg Center for Digital Humanities - HCDH @hcdh.bsky.social · May 22

The HCDH participated in @uniheidelberg.bsky.social's #ImpactDay2025, presenting ongoing projects - from "Chronorethorics" to educational game concepts. Read more here: hcdh.hypotheses.org/3043

#DigitalHumanities #Heidelberg #CAEDHET #Chronorhetorics #ResearchProjects

Impact Day 2025: HCDH and CAEDHET present their projects

Last week, on May 14th, the Heidelberg Center for Digital Humanities (HCDH) took part in the University of Heidelberg’s Impact Day 2025 at the Neue Universität to present some of the ongoing projects ...

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Heidelberg Center for Digital Humanities - HCDH @hcdh.bsky.social · May 22

The HCDH participated in @uniheidelberg.bsky.social's #ImpactDay2025, presenting ongoing projects - from "Chronorethorics" to educational game concepts. Read more here: hcdh.hypotheses.org/3043

#DigitalHumanities #Heidelberg #CAEDHET #Chronorhetorics #ResearchProjects

Impact Day 2025: HCDH and CAEDHET present their projects

Last week, on May 14th, the Heidelberg Center for Digital Humanities (HCDH) took part in the University of Heidelberg’s Impact Day 2025 at the Neue Universität to present some of the ongoing projects ...

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Heidelberg Center for Digital Humanities - HCDH @hcdh.bsky.social · May 5

From TEI-XML tools for medieval texts to a linguistic AI copilot and ethical debates around the EU AI Act — here’s what CAEDHET explored at their first Hackathon.

Read the full report: hcdh.hypotheses.org/2894

#DigitalHumanities #Hackathon #AIinEducation #ComputationalLinguistics #TEI #HCDH

Bericht zum CAEDHET-Hackathon (04/2025)

On April 11, 2025, the CAEDHET research group held its first hackathon, where participants split into three small groups to further develop current and future projects in an intensive working atmosphe...

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Heidelberg Center for Digital Humanities - HCDH @hcdh.bsky.social · May 5

From TEI-XML tools for medieval texts to a linguistic AI copilot and ethical debates around the EU AI Act — here’s what CAEDHET explored at their first Hackathon.

Read the full report: hcdh.hypotheses.org/2894

#DigitalHumanities #Hackathon #AIinEducation #ComputationalLinguistics #TEI #HCDH

Bericht zum CAEDHET-Hackathon (04/2025)

On April 11, 2025, the CAEDHET research group held its first hackathon, where participants split into three small groups to further develop current and future projects in an intensive working atmosphe...

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Heidelberg Center for Digital Humanities - HCDH @hcdh.bsky.social · Apr 24

Thank you! If you want there is always the opportunity of getting in touch and talk about your project with us. Also we do these kinds of workshops on a regular basis, so there will be more opportunities as well.

Heidelberg Center for Digital Humanities - HCDH @hcdh.bsky.social · Apr 24

On 02.04.25, the third workshop of the series "We've got the data - what now?" took place, this time with an introduction to Corpus Analysis. Thanks to Jonathan Gaede & David Schatz for the successful workshop and thanks to all participants!

Read the report here:
hcdh.hypotheses.org/2827

#HCDH

“We’ve got the data – what now?”: Corpus Analysis

The third session of the workshop series “We’ve got the data – what now?” offered an introduction to corpus analysis. Jonathan Gaede, who prepared this workshop with David Schatz, guided participants ...

hcdh.hypotheses.org

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Heidelberg Center for Digital Humanities - HCDH @hcdh.bsky.social · Apr 23

At the DH #WordsInNumbers Conference 2025, we presented our latest research project: analyzing temporal rhetoric in political discourse using #TextMining, #NLP and artificial intelligence.

Read more and check out our poster: hcdh.hypotheses.org/2862

#DigitalHumanities #Chronorhetorics #AI #HCDH

‘Chronorhetorics’ – short report about a new research project

From March 27th to 28th 2025, we attended the international DH Conference “Words in Numbers – Data-Driven Approaches to Texts in the Humanities and Social Sciences” at the ZukunftsZentrumZollverein in...

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Heidelberg Center for Digital Humanities - HCDH @hcdh.bsky.social · Apr 11

Florian and Thomas plan to add functions for visualizing semantic and grammatical concepts.

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The second photo shows an attempt at a macroperceptron to investigate information distribution in neural networks.
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Heidelberg Center for Digital Humanities - HCDH @hcdh.bsky.social · Apr 11

Florian und Thomas planen, dass dann auch noch Funktionen zur Visualisierung semantischer und grammatischer Konzepte dazukommen sollen.

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Das zweite Foto stellt den Versuch eines Makroperceptrons zur Untersuchung von Informationsdistribution in neuronalen Netzen dar.
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Heidelberg Center for Digital Humanities - HCDH @hcdh.bsky.social · Apr 11

Another tool reconstructs Middle High German continuous text from annotated TEI XML with additional information and integrates the semantic information as a tooltip. It is modularly expandable with additional TEI XML data with the same annotation or with new ontological data in XML format.

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Heidelberg Center for Digital Humanities - HCDH @hcdh.bsky.social · Apr 11

Ein weiteres Tool rekonstruiert aus annotierten & mit Zusatzinfos ausgestatteten TEI-XML einen mittelhochdeutschen Fließtext & integriert die semantischen Infos als Tooltipp. Es ist modular um weitere TEI-XML-Daten in gleicher Annotation erweiterbar o. um neue ontologische Daten im XML-Format.

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Heidelberg Center for Digital Humanities - HCDH @hcdh.bsky.social · Apr 11

At the #Hackathon, Jonas, Frederick & Jonathan developed an AI tool that analyzes, tags, and statistically evaluates text—whether as a TXT file, screenshot, or copy-paste. Modular design, expandable, and open to new features—a smart assistant for linguistics and teaching. #ComputationalLinguistics

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Heidelberg Center for Digital Humanities - HCDH @hcdh.bsky.social · Apr 11

Between hesitation about replacement & strong optimism, Stefan & Nicole discussed the AI University Ordinance & the EU AI Act at the #Hackathon. Considerations for applications with an advisory function have begun. CAEDHET's goal: to understand responsibility, explain laws & help shape the future.

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