AI applications in the Digital Humanities

At the intersection of AI and digital humanities, we look at AI tools and how they are used to better understand or reconstruct historical phenomena and dynamics. While in our current times, virtually all events are accompanied by large volumes of heterogeneous data (video, audio, news reports, social media commentary, etc.), this is obviously not the case for historical events from centuries ago. Often our only means to study history is via fragments of texts or inscriptions on a wide range of objects - in a wide variety of often now extinct languages.

• 13h30-14h00: Studying the circulation of knowledge via Natural Language Processing and Social Network Analysis (Marghertia Fantoli)
• 14h00-14h30: Entity recognition and machine learning for East Asian history (Hilde De Weerdt)
• 14h30-15h00: Introduction to STUDIUM.AI: How is AI used to study intellectual networks and books at the university of Leuven (1425-1797) (Violet Soen)
• 15h00-15h15: Coffee break
• 15h15-15h45: AI-based recognition of source references in secondary literature (Mark Depauw)
• 15h45-16h30: Panel discussion (tentative topic): Common data sources and formats in the humanities - challenges and opportunities for interdisciplinary AI research.(Hilde De Weerdt, Violet Soen, Mark Depauw, Bart Thijs, Tim Van de Cruys)