CHR2024 Best Paper Awards

Certificate for best long paper award, awarded to Jamie Mahowald and Benjamin Lee Second Image

CHR2024 showcased outstanding work, highlighting cutting-edge computational approaches to humanities research. A heartfelt thank you to everyone who participated, whether by presenting your work or contributing to meaningful discussions at the conference.

We are delighted to reveal the winners of the Best Long Paper and Best Short Paper Awards. With so many exceptional submissions, we are pleased to also give honourable mentions to the two runners-up in each category.

Best Long Paper

Winner

The CHR 2024 Best Long Paper Award was won by:

Integrating Visual and Textual Inputs for Searching Large-Scale Map Collections with CLIP Jamie Mahowald and Benjamin Charles Germain Lee

Honourable mentions

Textual Transmission without Borders: Multiple Multilingual Alignment and Stemmatology of the ``Lancelot en prose'' (Medieval French, Castilian, Italian) Matthias Gille Levenson, Lucence Ing and Jean-Baptiste Camps

Tracing the Development of the Virtual Particle Concept Using Semantic Change Detection Michael Zichert and Adrian Wüthrich

Best Short Paper

Winner

The CHR 2024 Best Short Paper Award was won by:

Automated Image Color Mapping for a Historic Photographic Collection Taylor Arnold and Lauren Tilton

Honourable mentions

Abbreviation Application: A Stylochronometric Study of Abbreviations in the Oeuvre of Herne’s Speculum Scribe Caroline Vandyck and Mike Kestemont

SCIENCE IS EXPLORATION: Computational Frontiers for Conceptual Metaphor Theory Rebecca M. M. Hicke and Ross Deans Kristensen-McLachlan