Pieter Beullens Wouter Haverals & Ben Nagy presenting on "The Translators' Touch. A Computational Stylometric Inquiry into Medieval Greek-Latin Translations" #DHBenelux2023 2023.dhbenelux.org/wp-content/upl…

While this app still works, I have an announcement: we started a Discord community server for computational literary studies & friends. It's in very early stages with few folks from CLS INFRA | @CLSinfra@fedihum | @clsinfra.bsky & DH Kraków; dm me for the invite! Time to turn into water that feeds the roots of grass

#htr_united data going big. Thanks @Alix_Tz Inria Paris NLP (ALMAnaCH team) #dh2023

Full house for our UAntwerpen colleague Wouter Haverals in the 'Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR)' session. He explained how he applied HTR to the manuscript production of the Carthusian Monastery of Herne in the 14th Century. Btw: the monastery is still for sale! #DH2023

Impressive and exciting work presented at #DH2023 by @Jbcamps and Chahan Vidal-Gorène creating fake medieval manuscripts to aid the performance of HTR models!

Me on the first day of class trying to get everyone hyped about the Middle Ages

Computational Humanities Research 2023 proceedings are out! The scale of the conference exploded: 49 full papers across 830 pages 👾 ceur-ws.org/Vol-3558/ Not possible w/o Folgert Karsdorp, Melvin Wevers, dr Iza Romanowska Fotis Jannidis (@fotisjannidis.bsky.social) Florian Cafiero @MariePuren and all authors following CEUR guildelines 👀

🎉 Congratulations to CDH RSE Ryan Heuser (Ryan Heuser / @heuser.bsky) on his new publication "Computing Koselleck: Modelling Semantic Revolutions, 1720–1960". Check it out at the link below, & read more from Ryan in his thread on Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/heuser… cambridge.org/core/books/abs…

Thanks everyone for making CHR2023 a success! Next year, from dec 4 to dec 6 the conference will take place in Aarhus, Denmark 🇩🇰 ☃️ The CFP will be out early 2024! Vi ses i Aarhus #chr2024

#HTR #DH alert ! - 3.36 million characters - 113,228 lines - 1,602 files - 180 different mss - 3 well represented languages (Latin, Castillan, Old French) and 4 others This is what was used for CATMuS Medieval ( zenodo.org/records/100662… ), a generic, model for Kraken.

On unknown languages such as Middle Dutch, with a single page of training and 3 epochs, we regularly achieved 93% accuracy (up to +13% accuracy) ! Find the working paper here inria.hal.science/hal-04346939 And yes, the first images are out of training samples

US friends! In a week, you'll have the rare chance to hear me speak twice on the Eastcoast: (1) "The Abundance of Medieval Literature: An Eco-Computational Perspective"; 6 Febr The Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton humanities.princeton.edu/event/the-abun… (1/2)

📢 Extension #CFP deadline! Attention #DH enthusiasts, the deadline to submit an abstract for #DHBenelux2024 has been extended. You have an additional week to send in your contribution. 📝🗓️ Extended deadline: 7 Febuary (23:59 CET) #DigitalHumanities 2024.dhbenelux.org/call-for-paper…

Had a great time in the beautiful town of Princeton! Many thanks to all the staff of the The Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton for their hospitality! I enjoyed the talk and it was particularly great catching up with my old friend Wouter Haverals Now off to Yale for the second gig in the US tour!

Richmond is growing in media studies (and DH!). Excited to share that we are hiring an Assistant Professor of Media Studies. (And in Platform Studies next year.) Check it out and please help spread the word: richmond.csod.com/ux/ats/careers…

Immensely proud that this article is out! Great results in a previously unexplored area! Thank you Wouter Haverals Ben Nagy FWO! journals.uco.es/mediterranea/a…

📢 Call for Papers: Computational Humanities Research (CHR2024) 📅 - Join us to showcase groundbreaking work at the intersection of computational, statistical, and mathematical methods with the arts and humanities. …computational-humanities-research.org/cfp/

So proud of CDH / Humanities Council postdoc Wouter Haverals, who is giving Thursday's keynote at the University of Antwerp DH Summer School! uantwerpen.be/en/summer-wint…

Introducing TrOCR for Medieval Latin Caroline! I'm a huge fan of the medieval HTR dataset CATMuS, compiled by Thibault Clérice (ponteineptique on Ciel Bleu ) and put on Hugging Face. Within the train split are ~6k examples of Latin Caroline. I used this data to finetune a TROCR model using the base-handwritten