KI2022 - Workshop

Humanities-Centred AI (CHAI)

Workshop at KI2022
45th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 19 - 23 September 2022: Trier, Germany

AI can support research in the Humanities making it easier and more efficient. It is thus essential that AI practitioners and Humanities scholars take a Humanities-centred approach to the development, deployment and application of AI methods for the Humanities.

Aim & Scope

Inferring ancient cultural traditions from written artefacts, AI offers many opportunities to assist humanities scholars in their work. Editorial projects and computer-aided evaluations, such as text and data mining or linguistic analyses, require the collecting, storing, and linking of data in order to quickly identify core information of the written artefacts under investigation. Time-consuming procedures like the creation of dictionaries or the use of bibliographies can be facilitated, abridged and designed more efficiently through the automatic linking of data, which enables to create extensive data sets and to generate additional information. In this way, AI supports scholars with time-saving methods for their research, hence leaving more room for core tasks and questions. To ensure that the use of AI methods in the humanities remains not only abstract and theoretic, the applicability of algorithms in respective research needs to be specifically examined and intentionally developed with a clear focus on humanities research.

Agenda

Monday, September 19, 2022 - 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 a.m.
Virtual Workshop at KI2022

20 minutes presentation plus 5 minutes discussion

Proceedings are available at https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3301/

Abstracts and presentations: https://doi.org/10.25592/uhhfdm.10769

Time	Title
9:00 a.m. – 9:10 a.m.	Welcome
9:10 a.m. – 9:35 a.m.	Hagen Peukert Universität Hamburg AI Approaches Overcome Variability Problems In Diachronic Text Analysis: The Case Of Identifying Bound Affixes in Middle English
9:35 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.	Hussein Mohammed, Agnieszka Helman-Ważny Universität Hamburg Understanding the Zhangzhung Nyengyu tsakali Collection using Computational Pattern Analysis
10:00 a.m. – 10:25 a.m.	Jens Dörpinghaus Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB) & University of Koblenz Social Network Analysis and Co-Occurrence: Identifying the Gaps
10:25 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.	Break
10:45 a.m. – 11:10 a.m.	Simon Schiff, Magnus Bender, Ralf Möller University of Lübeck Embodiment of an Agent by a Pepper Robot for Explaining Retrieval Results
11:10 a.m. – 11:35 a.m.	Haiyan Hu-von Hinüber¹, Sylvia Melzer² ¹Max-Weber-Kolleg & Shandong-Universität ²Universität Hamburg & University of Lübeck On the Awakening of the Buddhological Epigraphy and Philology from the AI
11:35 a.m. – 12:00 a.m.	Final discussion

Call for Papers

This workshop addresses AI methods from the perspective of humanities scholars. We encourage submissions that report on work in progress or present a synthesis of emerging research trends. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

AI for the interdisciplinary work of humanities scholars
AI for linking data from the humanities scholars
Digitized written artefact representation and description formats
AI methods for written artefact analysis
OCR for humanities scholars
Human-aware agents supporting tasks of humanities scholars

Submission: Submitted papers must

be 5 - 9 'standard' pages in length;
contain your research question(s), the methodological approach and your findings;
be written in English;
contain author names, affiliations, and email addresses;
be formatted according to the CEUR-WS-Template (use the 1-column style): http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip
be submitted in PDF and the source file.

Submission should be made through the EasyChair conference management system. The submission link is: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ki2022

Workshop Organisers

Dr Sylvia Melzer, Universität Hamburg & Universität zu Lübeck
Dr Stefan Thiemann, Universität Hamburg
Dr Hagen Peukert, Universität Hamburg

Program Committee

Dr Sylvia Melzer, Universität Hamburg & Universität zu Lübeck
Dr Stefan Thiemann, Universität Hamburg
Dr Hagen Peukert, Universität Hamburg
Prof Dr habil Meike Klettke, Universität Regensburg

Important dates

Deadline for Submission: 15 August 2022
Notification of Authors: 31 August 2022
Workshop date: 19 September 2022