CHR2024 Programme
Programme for the pre-conference workshops on Tuesday, 3rd December 2024, and the main conference days on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, 4th-6th December 2024.
You can also get an overview of all accepted papers here.
Note: Changes may occur in the programme. Please check regularly for the latest information.
Tuesday, December 3, 2024 (Pre-conference workshops)
Note: Times are in Central European Time (CET)
- 09:00-12:30: Workshop sessions
- 12:30-13:30: Lunch
- 13:30-17:00: Workshop sessions
Parallel Workshops
Digital Methods for Mythological Research
Digital Methods for Mythological Research
dm4myth aims to bring together researchers from various disciplines who are interested in studying myths with digital tools and methods. We welcome contributions from various disciplines, such as (but not limited to) Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Religious Studies, Classical Studies/Classical Philology, Art History. The primary focus of this workshop is to explore the narrative material of mythological stories, underlying belief systems, and the multifaceted representation of characters in mythological contexts using digital methods. The full-day workshop is targeted at scholars who work on interdisciplinary research questions, which involve mythological (and derivative) topics and the application or development of computer science methods and algorithms. We welcome participants from all stages of their academic career, from (under-)graduate students to early career researchers and senior researchers. (https://dm4myth.github.io)
Analysing the Reception of Fiction Novels Across Languages
This workshop delves into the intersection of cultural practices and the digital sphere through a hands-on exploration of multilingual fiction book reviewing.
It offers participants an immersive experience, guiding them through the full research workflow of computational reader response studies, using book reviews and online comments as proxies for reception.
Scheduled as four sessions, the workshop provides data and addresses key theoretical, methodological, and interpretive challenges to give participants a comprehensive understanding of the process. It is particularly suited for early career researchers, while senior researchers are also encouraged to attend and engage in discussions on theory and methodology.
Participants will gain practical experience with advanced NLP methods, statistical modeling, and computational approaches to reader response studies. Basic familiarity with Python is recommended.
(https://igelsociety.github.io/CHR2024-book-reviews-workshop/)
Note: A maximum of 30 people can attend this workshop, and registered participants of the conference who indicated an interest in this workshop are selected on a first-come-first-serve basis.
Wednesday, December 4, 2024 (Day 1)
Note: Times are in Central European Time (CET)
- 9:00-11:00: Registration and coffee
- 11:15-11:30: CHR opening words
- 11:30-12:30: Keynote by Leon Derczynski
- 12:30-13:30: Lunch
- 13:30-15:00: Session 1A / Session 1B
- 15:00-15:30: Coffee Break
- 15:30-17:00: Session 2A / Session 2B
- 17:00: Opening reception
Overview of sessions
Session 1
Session 1A: Visual Arts and Art History (13:30-15:00)
Viability of Zero-shot Classification and Search of Historical Photos(long)
Transformation of Composition and Gaze Interaction in Noli Me Tangere Depictions from 1300–1600(short)
Deciphering Still Life Artworks with Linked Open Data(short)
Computational segmentation of Wayang Kulit video recordings using a Cross-Attention Temporal Model(short)
Assessing Burial Mound Intervisibility and Prominence at Regional Scale(short)
Session 1B: Classification & Information Extraction (13:30-15:00)
Page Embeddings: Extracting and Classifying Historical Documents with Generic Vector Representations(short)
Exploration of Event Extraction Techniques in Late Medieval and Early Modern Administrative Records(short)
Extracting Social Connections from Finnish Karelian Refugee Interviews Using LLMs(long)
Session 2
Session 2A: Literature (15:30-17:00)
Literary Time Travel: Distinguishing Past and Contemporary Worlds in Danish and Norwegian Fiction(long)
Recognising non-named spatial entities in literary texts: a novel spatial entities classifier(short)
Latent Structures of Intertextuality in French Fiction(short)
Global Coherence, Local Uncertainty - Towards a Theoretical Framework for Assessing Literary Quality(short)
Animacy in German Folktales(short)
Session 2B: Semantic Analysis (15:30-17:00)
Domain Adaptation with Linked Encyclopedic Data: A Case Study for Historical German(long)
Tracing the Development of the Virtual Particle Concept Using Semantic Change Detection(long)
Thursday, December 5, 2024 (Day 2)
Note: Times are in Central European Time (CET)
- 09:00-10:30: Lightning talks session
- 10:30-11:00: Coffee break
- 11:00-12:30: Session 3A / Session 3B
- 12:30-13:30: Lunch
- 13:30-15:00: Session 4A / Session 4B
- 15:00-15:30: Coffee break
- 15:30-17:00: Session 5A / Session 5B
- 17:00: Poster walk-around
- 20:00: Conference dinner
Overview of Sessions
Session 3
Session 3A: Literary Canon & Reception (11:00-12:30)
Literary Canonicity and Algorithmic Fairness: The Effect of Author Gender on Classification Models(long)
Session 3B: Stylometry (11:00-12:30)
Bootstrap Distance Imposters: High precision authorship verification with improved interpretability(long)
Promises from an Inferential Approach in Classical Latin Authorship Attribution(short)
Session 4
Session 4A: Large Language Models (13:30-15:00)
Remember to Forget: A Study on Verbatim Memorization of Literature in Large Language Models(long)
Does ChatGPT Have a Poetic Style?(long)
On Classification with Large Language Models in Cultural Analytics(long)
Session 4B: Automatic Text Recognition (13:30-15:00)
Does Context Matter ? Enhancing Handwritten Text Recognition with Metadata in Historical Manuscripts(long)
Session 5
Session 5A: Linguistic Change (15:30-17:00)
A Methodology for Studying Linguistic and Cultural Change in China, 1900-1950(long)
The birth of French orthography. A computational analysis of French spelling systems in diachrony(long)
SCIENCE IS EXPLORATION: Computational Frontiers for Conceptual Metaphor Theory(short)
Session 5B: Search & Discovery (15:30-17:00)
Integrating Visual and Textual Inputs for Searching Large-Scale Map Collections with CLIP(long)
Lightning Talks & Posters
Poster Session (17:00)
Sub-optimal Recall in Visual Cluster Retrieval: When Clusters Look Like Bridges(short)
Who Advertises in Newspapers? Data Criticism in Mining Historical Job Ads(short)
Catching Feelings: Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis for Fanfiction Comments about Greek Myth(short)
Rediscovering the 1890s: A Norwegian Poetry Corpus(short)
Exploring the Evolution of Gender Power Difference through the Omegaverse Trope on AO3 Fanfiction(short)
Automated Image Color Mapping for a Historic Photographic Collection(short)
Getting to grippe with influenza: an investigation of why the disease is called that(short)
Treebanks for the ordinary working grammarian(short)
A quantitative study of gender representation and authors' gender in a large-market print medium(short)
Bringing Rome to Life: Evaluating Historical Image Generation(short)
Discoverability in a Digital Library: A Study of “Rabbit Holes” within Gallica’s corpus(short)
The GOLEM-Knowledge Graph and Search Interface: Perspectives into Narrative and Fiction(short)
Text Mining to unveil Prehistoric Pastness in Museums(short)
Modeling the Evolution of Harmony in Popular Music from Different Cultural Contexts(short)
Lightning Talks (9:00-10:30)
Beauty, mediated: A media archeology of archived moving images for understanding local representations of human beauty
Well-Documented Terror: Navigating the Digital Records of the September 11th Attacks
Investigating Individual Composers' Style Evolution Using Deep Audio Features
PoeTree: Poetry Treebanks in Ten Languages
Exploring Ecological Bias in Depictions of NYC Rivers in The New York Times
Enhancing access to Danish radio and television archives through advanced speech-to-text technologies
Metaphors of Artificial Intelligence in Contemporary Philosophy: A Computational Text Analysis of the PhilPapers Database
Towards Operationalizing Linguistic Creativity in Literary and Non-literary Text
A quest to build phylogenetic networks of literary fiction
Predictably Unpredictable? Characterizing Collective Cultural Consumption Shifts in Nation-Level Library Data
Leveraging ChatGPT for Multilingual Philosophical Logic Education: A Case Study with Hebrew and Arabic Translations
Finding pointers of discursively constructed news values in Danish journalism using computer-assisted methods
From Kyiv to Paris, from Moscow to Siberia: mapping the ‘outward turn’ of Russian Literature in the 19th century
Second-order observation through AI: Towards a humanistic approach of augmenting human intellect
Modelling Book Auctions
What’s the Issue? Overcoming Copyright and Cataloguing Challenges for Computational Periodicals in the HathiTrust Collections
Can Computationally Derived Metadata Help in the Bibliographic Recognition of “New” Nations? A Case for Learning-based Prediction
Friendships, emotions and data driven literary studies
Friday, December 6, 2024 (DAY 3)
Note: Times are in Central European Time (CET)
- 09:00-10:00: Keynote by Lauren Klein
- 10:00-10:30: Coffee break
- 10:30-12:00: Session 6A / Session 6B
- 12:00-13:00: Lunch
- 13:00-14:30: Session 7A / Session 7B
- 14:30-15:00: Coffee break
- 15:00-16:30: Session 8A / Session 8B
- 16:30-17:00: Award ceremony, concluding remarks
Overview of Sessions
Session 6
Session 6A: Annotation (10:30-12:00)
Models of Literary Evaluation and Web 2.0. An Annotation Experiment with Goodreads Reviews(long)
Session 6B: Multilingualism & Translation Studies (10:30-12:00)
Automatic Translation Alignment Pipeline for Multilingual Digital Editions of Literary Works(short)
Session 7
Session 7A: Social Patterns (13:00-14:30)
And then I saw it: Testing Hypotheses on Turning Points in a Corpus of UFO Sighting Reports(short)
Beyond the Register: Demographic Modeling of Arrest Patterns in 1879-1880 Brussels(long)
Epistemic Capture through Specialization in Post-World War II Parliamentary Debate(long)
Revolution + Love: Measuring the Entanglements of State Violence and Emotions in Early PRC(short)
Session 7B: Measuring Emotion & Sentiment (13:00-14:30)
In the Context of Narrative, we Never Properly Defined the Concept of Valence(long)
Sentiment Below the Surface: Omissive and Evocative Strategies in Literature and Beyond(long)
Once More, With Feeling: Measuring Emotion of Acting Performances in Contemporary American Film(long)
Session 8
Session 8A: Cultural Dynamics (15:00-16:15)
Context is Key(NMF): Modelling Topical Information Dynamics in Chinese Diaspora Media(long)
Session 8B: Popular Media (15:00-16:15)
Treating Games as Plays? Computational Approaches to the Detection of Scenes in Game Dialogs(short)
Admiration and Frustration: A Multidimensional Analysis of Fanfiction(long)
Greatest Hits Versus Deep Cuts: Exploring Variety in Set-lists Across Artists and Musical Genres(long)
Session 6
Session 6A: Annotation (10:30-12:00)
Models of Literary Evaluation and Web 2.0. An Annotation Experiment with Goodreads Reviews(long)
Session 6B: Multilingualism & Translation Studies (10:30-12:00)
Automatic Translation Alignment Pipeline for Multilingual Digital Editions of Literary Works(short)
Session 7
Session 7A: Social Patterns (13:00-14:30)
And then I saw it: Testing Hypotheses on Turning Points in a Corpus of UFO Sighting Reports(short)
Beyond the Register: Demographic Modeling of Arrest Patterns in 1879-1880 Brussels(long)
Epistemic Capture through Specialization in Post-World War II Parliamentary Debate(long)
Revolution + Love: Measuring the Entanglements of State Violence and Emotions in Early PRC(short)
Session 7B: Measuring Emotion & Sentiment (13:00-14:30)
In the Context of Narrative, we Never Properly Defined the Concept of Valence(long)
Sentiment Below the Surface: Omissive and Evocative Strategies in Literature and Beyond(long)
Once More, With Feeling: Measuring Emotion of Acting Performances in Contemporary American Film(long)
Session 8
Session 8A: Cultural Dynamics (15:00-16:15)
Context is Key(NMF): Modelling Topical Information Dynamics in Chinese Diaspora Media(long)
Session 8B: Popular Media (15:00-16:15)
Treating Games as Plays? Computational Approaches to the Detection of Scenes in Game Dialogs(short)
Admiration and Frustration: A Multidimensional Analysis of Fanfiction(long)
Greatest Hits Versus Deep Cuts: Exploring Variety in Set-lists Across Artists and Musical Genres(long)