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KI2023 - Workshop

Humanities-Centred AI (CHAI)

Workshop at KI2023
46th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 26 - 29 September 2023: Berlin, 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

Tuesday, September 26, 2023 - 10:00 a.m. - 15:00 p.m.
Workshop at KI2023, Berlin

15 minutes presentation plus 5 minutes discussion

Registration: https://informatik2023.gi.de/registration_ki.html

Time Title
10:00 a.m. – 10:40 a.m. Hagen Peukert
Keynote: Humanities-Centred AI:
Where we are coming from! Where we are heading?
10:40 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.

Simon Schiff and Ralf Möller
Persistent Data, Sustainable Information

11:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.

 Coffee break
11:30 a.m. – 11:50 a.m. Sabrina Göllner and Marina Tropmann-Frick
Bridging the Gap between Theory and Practice: Towards Responsible AI Evaluation         
11:50 a.m. – 12:10 p.m.

Magnus Bender, Kira Schwandt, Ralf Möller and Marcel Gehrke
FrESH – Feedback-reliant Enhancement of Subjective Content Descriptions by Humans
12:10 p.m. – 12:30 p.m. Nadja Redzuan, Marcel Gehrke, Ralf Möller and Tanya Braun
On Domain-specific Topic Modelling Using the Case of a Humanities Journal       
12:30 p.m. – 14:00 p.m. Lunch break
14:00 p.m. – 14:20 p.m. Thomas Asselborn, Sylvia Melzer, Said Aljoumani, Magnus Bender, Florian Andreas Marwitz, Konrad Hirschler and Ralf Möller
Fine-tuning BERT Models on Demand for Information Systems Explained Using Training Data from Pre-modern Arabic                 
14:20 p.m. – 14:40 p.m. Hussein Mohammed
Multimodal Artefacts: Exploring Vision-Language Models to Bridge the Modalities of Historical Written Artefacts
14:40 p.m. – 15:00 p.m. Sylvia Melzer, Hagen Peukert, Eliana Dal Sasso, Charles Li, Thomas Asselborn and Ralf Möller
Federated Information Retrieval in Cross-Domain Information Systems

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/my/conference?conf=ki2023

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
  • Thomas Asselborn, Universität zu Lübeck
  • Dr Cornelius Berthold, Universität Hamburg
  • Hongxu Wang, SIGNON Deutschland GmbH

Important dates

  • Deadline for Submission: 21 July 2023 (extended 28 July 2023)
  • Notification of Authors: 11 August 2023
  • Workshop date: 26 September 2023