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[1] From: James O'Sullivan <james.osullivan@ucc.ie>
Subject: Computers & Culture Issue 2 (32)
[2] From: Paul Spence <paul.spence@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: Publication of 'Multilingual Digital Humanities' edited volume (96)
[3] From: Manfred Thaller <manfred.thaller@uni-koeln.de>
Subject: Pub: Fabio Ciotti on ChatGPT (27)
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Date: 2024-01-08 16:23:18+00:00
From: James O'Sullivan <james.osullivan@ucc.ie>
Subject: Computers & Culture Issue 2
Dear colleagues,
Issue 2 of Computers & Culture has been published. Computers & Culture is an
interdisciplinary digital pamphlet featuring short essays and notes of relevance
to the digital and computers in the wider arts, humanities, and social sciences.
It is available as follows:
<https://www.ucc.ie/en/future-humanities/researchclusters/digital/computers-and-
culture/>
Issue 2 features the following contributions:
Mapping Meaning
Katie Ní Loingsigh
Digital Poetry in Digital Literacy
Jim Andrews
Recreating the eleventh century musical sequence Victimae paschali laudes using
Max
Stace Constantinou
Best wishes,
James
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Dr James O'Sullivan H. Dip., M.Sc., M.A., Ph.D.
Senior Lecturer, Department of Digital Humanities
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Date: 2024-01-08 15:57:47+00:00
From: Paul Spence <paul.spence@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: Publication of 'Multilingual Digital Humanities' edited volume
We're delighted to announce the recent publication of our edited volume on
"Multilingual Digital Humanities", published by Routledge as part of the Digital
Research in the Arts and Humanities series:
https://www.routledge.com/Multilingual-Digital-Humanities/Viola-Spence/p/book/9781032491943
(ISBN 9781032491943.
Edited by Lorella Viola and Paul Spence, this publication examines the profound
impact of monolingualism, with a special focus on challenging Anglocentrism, on
digital practices within the humanities and social sciences. This four-part,
13-chapter book navigates infrastructural projects, pedagogical resources,
computational models, interface building, and publishing initiatives across
diverse case studies, spanning languages such as Arabic, French, Russian,
Portuguese, Italian, German, Spanish, Bengali, Hindi, Malayalam, and Tamil.
This book was inspired by the recent growth in multilingual DH initiatives which
explore the dynamic intersection of languages, culture, and digital mediation.
"Multilingual Digital Humanities" recognizes the digital landscape as a
culturally embedded, multilingual entity that weaves together past, present, and
future worlds. Our aim was to bring together numerous debates connecting
research with a linguistic focus to cultural criticism in Digital Humanities
while addressing language technologies, documentation, and international
language-based infrastructure creation. We hope that the volume will be useful
reading for students, scholars, and practitioners in digital humanities and
digital studies.
"Multilingual Digital Humanities" includes the following chapters:
Part I-Multilingual/Multicultural Theory and Practice
1. A model for Multilingual and Multicultural Digital Scholarship Methods
Publishing: The Case of Programming Historian (Jennifer Isasi,Riva Quiroga,
Nabeel Siddiqui, Joana Vieira Paulino, and Alex Wermer-Colan)
2. Diversifying Digital Biodiversity Knowledge: A Latin American
Multilingual Perspective on the Biodiversity Heritage Library (Lidia Ponce de la
Vega)
3. Applications and Developments of NLP Resources for Text Processing in
Indian Languages: Shared Multilingual Corpora Building and Pre-trained Models
(Justy Joseph, Lalithsriram SR, and Nirmala Menon)
Part II-Pedagogy
4. Doing Digital Humanities in the Modern Languages Classroom (Susanna
Allés-Torrent)
5. Digital Learning Environments for SLA: Learning Analytics and the
Construction of Knowledge (Alice Gasparini)
6. Pedagogy and Praxis in Libraries: Natural Language Processing for Non-
English Texts (Ian Goodale)
7. Bridging the Gap Between Digital Humanities and Natural Language
Processing: A Pedagogical Imperative for Humanistic NLP (Toma Tasovac, Nick
Budak, Natalia Ermolaev, Andrew Janco, David Lassner)
Part III-Language Models
8. Linguistic Injustice in Multilingual Technologies: The TenTen Corpus
Family as a Case Study (David Bordonaba-Plou and Laila M. Jreis-Navarro)
9. Typological Challenges for the Application of Multilingual Language
Models in the Digital Humanities (Marcell Fekete, Johannes Bjerva, and Lisa
Beinborn)
10. Data Scarcity and Methodological Limitations in Multilingual Analysis of
News Articles Published in Brazil (Caio Mello)
Part IV-Methods and Infrastructure
11. Multilingual Interfaces for All? Localisation Strategies in Proyecto
Humboldt Digital (Antonio Rojas Castro)
12. Towards Multilingually Enabled Digital Knowledge Infrastructures: A
Qualitative Survey Analysis (Alíz Horváth, Cornelis van Lit, Cosima Wagner, and
David Joseph Wrisley)
13. Digital Approaches to Multilingual Text Analysis: The Dictionnaire de la
langue franque and Its Morphology as Hybrid Data in the Past (Josh Brown)
Best wishes and happy reading,
Lorella Viola (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Paul Spence (King's College London)
#DigitalHumanities #MultilingualDH
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Paul Spence
Reader, Department of Digital Humanities
King's College London | Strand | London | WC2R 2LS
About: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/paul-spence
Twitter: @politonaiz
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Date: 2024-01-06 09:20:43+00:00
From: Manfred Thaller <manfred.thaller@uni-koeln.de>
Subject: Pub: Fabio Ciotti on ChatGPT
Dear Willard,
reading more than one list may have confused me, but even after checking
the Humanist archive, I think Fabio has been too modest to announce this
on Humanist.
If I have been blind, please do not post this submission.
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Dear Humanists,
discussions of ChatGPT are not exactly rare at the moment. Fabio
Ciotti's "Minerva e il pappagallo" ("Minerva and the Parrot"), available
from https://testoesenso.it/index.php/testoesenso/article/view/671 in my
opinion really stands out from the crowd, however.
It is in Italian and would tax my knowledge of it too much. DeepL
provides a truly excellent translation of the first, theoretical, part
of the paper. (Except some occasional confusing selections of the fonts
used.)
In the second part - an application example - unfortunately some
sentences with Italian as object language are translated as well; as the
language of the conversation with ChatGPT about these sentences is
English in the original anyway, that should not be a problem, though.
Best,
Manfred
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