Formats
Short papers: 10+5 minutes
Long papers: 15+10 minutes
Lightning talks: 5+1 minutes
Day 1 - Wednesday 06 Dec 2023
08:00 Registration opens
Workshops
08:00 → 09:30
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@florian.cafiero and Jean-Luc Falcone
Transforming archives into data-driven analyses - Marianne Reboul
Textual analysis with Python and Large Language Models - Giovanni Pietro Vitali
Mapping with R for humanities
Coffee break 
09:30 → 10:15
CHR opening words 
10:15 → 10:30
Session 1: Historical Change 
10:30 → 12:00 ; 
@ash
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Vojtech Kase, Adéla Sobotková and Petra Heřmánková
Modeling temporal uncertainty in historical datasets (Short Talk) -
Wenyi Shang, Song Chen, Yuqi Chen and Jana Diesner
Structural Characteristics in Historical Networks Reveal Changes in Political Culture: An Example From Northern Song China (960–1127 C.E.) (Short Talk / Online) -
hora Hagen and Erik Ketzan
Introducing Traveling Word Pairs in Historical Semantic Change: A Case Study of Privacy Words in 18th and 19th Century English (short talk) -
Edgar Dubourg, Andrei Mogoutov and Nicolas Baumard
Is Cinema Becoming Less and Less Innovative With Time? Using neural network text embedding model to measure cultural innovation (short talk) -
Kristoffer Nielbo, Jan Kostkan, Katrine F. Baunvig, Ekaterina Borisova and Armin W. Geertz
Oscillation between Contemplation and Revelation - Recurrence and Change in the Life History of Teresa of Ávila (Long Talk)
Lunch 
12:00 → 13:30
Session 2A: Language
13:30 → 15:00 ; @knielbo
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Caroline Craig, Kartik Goyal, Gregory Crane, Farnoosh Shamsian, and David A. Smith
Testing the Limits of Neural Sentence Alignment Models on Classical Greek and Latin Texts and Translations (short talk) -
Yulia Clausen
German Question Tags: A Computational Analysis (long talk) -
Sara Luxmoore, Pedro Ramaciotti Morales and Jonathan Cardoso-Silva
Emoji, language games and political polarisation (long talk) -
Alie Lassche, Ruben Ros and Joris Veerbeek
(De)constructing Binarism in Journalism: Automatic Antonym Detection in Dutch Newspaper Articles (short talk)
Session 2B: History
13:30 → 15:00 ; @sarah.lang
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Wouter Haverals and Mike Kestemont
The Middle Dutch Manuscripts Surviving from the Carthusian Monastery of Herne (14th century): Constructing an Open Dataset of Digital Transcriptions (long talk) -
Marijn Koolen, Ronald Sluijter, Rik Hoekstra and Joris Oddens
Formulas and decision-making: the case of the States General of the Dutch Republic (long talk) -
Charles de Dampierre, Valentin Thouzeau and Nicolas Baumard
Using Online Catalogs to Estimate Economic Development in Classical Antiquity (short talk) -
Stella Verkijk and Piek Vossen
Sunken Ships Shan’t Sail: Ontology Design for Reconstructing Events in the Dutch East India Company Archives (short talk)
Coffee break
15:00 → 15:30
Keynote 1 
15:30 → 17:00 ; @iza.romanowska
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Richard McElreath: The importance of analog thinking for digital scholarship
Opening reception 
17:00
Day 2 - Thursday 07 Dec 2023
Session 3A: Literature and society 
08:00 → 09:30 ; @alie
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Jean Barré and Thierry Poibeau
Beyond Canonicity. Modeling Canon/Archive Literary Change in French Fiction (long talk) -
Ying Zhong, Nicolas Baumard and Valentin Thouzeau
The evolution of romantic love in Chinese fiction in the very long run (618 - 2022): A quantitative approach (short talk) -
Laurine Vianne, Yoann Dupont and Jean Barré
Gender bias in French literature (short talk) -
Joris J. Van Zundert, Roel Smeets and Andreas Van Cranenburgh
Putting Dutchcoref To the Test: Character Detection and Gender Dynamics in Contemporary Dutch Novels (short talk) -
Vincent Sarbach-Pulicani
Profiling anonymous authors in the Corsican autonomist press of the inter-war period (short talk)
Session 3B: HTR and Manuscripts 
08:00 → 09:30 ; @thibaultclerice
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Luigi Bambaci and Daniel Stoekl Ben Ezra
Enhancing HTR of Historical Texts through Scholarly Editions: A Case Study from an Ancient Collation of the Hebrew Bible (long talk) -
David Smith, Jacob Murel, Jonathan Parkes Allen and Matthew Thomas Miller
Automatic Collation for Diversifying Corpora: Commonly Copied Texts as Distant Supervision for Handwritten Text Recognition (long talk) -
Tara Andrews
Algorithms for the manipulation and transformation of text variant graphs (Long talk / online) -
Sarah Lang, Bernhard Liebl and Manuel Burghardt
Toward a Computational Historiography of Alchemy: Challenges and Obstacles of Object Detection for Historical Illustrations of Mining, Metallurgy and Distillation in 16th–17th Century Print (short talk)
Coffee break
09:30 → 10:00
Keynote 2
10:00 → 11:20 ; @fotis
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Roberta Sinatra: Quantifying the dynamics of impact in science and art
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Lunch
11:30 → 12:30
Session 4A: Narrative 
12:30 → 14:00 ; Rebecca M. M. Hicke
Julian Häußler and Evelyn Gius
Operationalizing and Measuring Conflict in German Novels (short talk)
Leonard Konle, Agnes Hilger and Fotis Jannidis
On character perception and plot structure of romance novels (short talk)
Pascale Moreira, Yuri Bizzoni, Emily Öhman and Kristoffer Nielbo
Not just Plot(ting): A Comparison of Two Approaches for Understanding Narrative Text Dynamics (short talk)
Feng Zhou and Federico Pianzola
Evaluation and Alignment of Movie Events Extracted via Machine Learning from a Narratological Perspective (short talk)
Andrew Piper, Hao Xu and Eric D. Kolaczyk
Modeling Narrative Revelation (long talk / online)
Session 4B: Libraries and collections 
12:30 → 14:00 ; @iza.romanowska
John Walsh, Glen Layne-Worthey, Jacob Jett, Boris Capitanu, Peter Organisciak, Ryan Dubnicek and J. Stephen Downie
“The library is open!”: Open data and an open API for the HathiTrust Digital Library (short talk)
Mariona Coll Ardanuy, Federico Nanni, Kaspar Beelen and Luke Hare
The Past is a Foreign Place: Improving Toponym Linking for Historical Newspapers (long talk / online)
Thomas Smits, Wouter Haverals, Mike Kestemont, Loren Verreyen and Mona Allaert
Greetings from! Extracting address information from 100,000 historical picture postcards (long talk)
Bayrem Kaabachi and Simon Dumas Primbault
A Topological Data Analysis of Navigation Paths within Digital Libraries (long talk)
Coffee break
14:00 → 14:30
Session 5A: Authorship attribution 
14:30 → 16:00 ; @poibeau
Sophie Robert-Hayek, Jacques Istas and Frédérique Rey
Unraveling the Synoptic puzzle: stylometric insights into Luke’s potential use of Matthew (long talk
Thibault Clérice and Anthony Glaise
Twenty-One Pseudo-Chrysostoms and more: authorship verification in the patristic world (long talk)
Rebecca M. M. Hicke and David Mimno
T5 meets Tybalt: author attribution in Early Modern English drama using large language models (long talk)
Juan Barrios, Florian Cafiero and Simon Gabay
Detecting Psychological Disorders with Stylometry: the Case of ADHD in Adolescent Autobiographical Narratives (short talk)
Session 5B: Large language models 
14:30 → 16:00 ; @thora.hagen
Janos Borst, Jannis Klähn and Manuel Burghardt
Death of the Dictionary? – The Rise of Zero-Shot Sentiment Classification (short talk)
Giselle Gonzalez Garcia and Christian Weilbach
If the Sources Could Talk: Evaluating Large Language Models for Research Assistance in History (long talk / online
Ryan Muther, Mathew Barber and David Smith
Querying the Past: Automatic Source Attribution with Language Models (long talk)
Ophir Münz-Manor, Pavel Kaganovich and Elishai Ezra-Tsur
Style Transfer of Modern Hebrew Literature Using Text Simplification and Generative Language Modeling (long talk)
Poster Session 
16:00 List of posters
Conference dinner
19:00 Atelier de maître
Day 3 - Friday 08 Dec 2023
Keynote 3
08:00 → 09:30 ; @ash
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Oliver Morin: Humanity’s second language: How images carry information
Coffee break
09:30 → 10:00
Session 6: Audio/Visual 
10:00 → 11:30 ; @oleg_sobchuk
Christof Weiß and Meinard Mueller
Studying Tonal Evolution of Western Choral Music: A Corpus-Based Strategy (long talk)
Harin Lee, Romain Hennequin and Manuel Moussallam
Understanding individual and collective diversity of cultural taste through large-scale music listening events (short talk)
Nicolas Ruth, Manuel Burghardt and Bernhard Liebl
From Clusters to Graphs – Toward a Scalable Viewing of News Videos (short talk)
Alexandra Barancová, Melvin Wevers and Nanne van Noord
Blind Dates: Examining the Expression of Temporality in Historical Photographs (short talk)
Martin Ruskov and Sara Sullam
Towards a Phenomenographic Framework for Exploratory Visual Analysis of Bibliographic Data (short talk)
Lunch
11:30 → 12:30
Lightning Talks Session
12:30 → 14:00 ; @iza.romanowska
Coffee break
14:00 → 14:30
Session 7: Literature 
14:30 → 14:30 ; @fotis
Jean-Baptiste Camps, Nicolas Baumard, Pierre-Carl Langlais, Olivier Morin, Thibault Clérice and Jade Norindr
Make Love or War? Monitoring the Thematic Evolution of Medieval French Narratives (long talk)
Kirill Maslinsky
How Exactly does Literary Content Depend on Genre? A Case Study of Animals in Children’s Literature (short talk)
Simone Rebora, Marina Lehmann, Anne Heumann, Wei Ding and Gerhard Lauer
Comparing ChatGPT to Human Raters and Sentiment Analysis Tools for German Children’s Literature (short talk)
Lyra D’Souza and David Mimno
The Chatbot and the Canon: Poetry Memorization in LLMs (short talk)
Ida Marie S. Lassen, Pascale Feldkamp Moreira, Yuri Bizzoni, Mads Rosendah Thomsen and Kristoffer Nielbo
Persistence of gender asymmetries in book reviews within and across genres (short talk)
Award ceremony & concluding remarks 
16:00 → 16:30