KI2024 - Workshop
Humanities-Centred AI (CHAI)
Workshop at KI2024
47th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 25 - 27 September 2024: Würzburg, Germany
(workshops and tutorials taking place beforehand, on the 23rd and 24th September)
https://www.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/ki24/
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
Workshop at KI2024 - 47th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Würzburg
Monday, September 23, 2024
15 minutes presentation plus 5 minutes discussion
Chair: Dr. Hagen Peukert
Time | Title |
14:00 – 14:40 |
Hagen Peukert, Lucas Voges, Sylvia Melzer University of Hamburg Keynote: Humanities in the Center of Data Usability: Data Visualization in Institutional Research Repositories |
14:45 – 15:05 |
Jeffrey Wolf Vrije Universiteit Brussel From Data Acquisition to Latent Semantic Analysis: Developing VERITRACE's Computational Approach to Tracing the Influence of Ancient Wisdom in Early Modern Natural Philosophy |
15:10 – 15:30 |
Magnus Bender University of Hamburg Automate Text Processing for Schematically Analyzing Legal Texts |
15:30 – 16:00 | Coffee break |
16:00 – 16:20 |
Thomas Asselborn, Karsten Helmholz and Ralf Möller University of Hamburg Retrieving Information Presented on Webpages Using Large Language Models: A Case Study |
16:25 – 16:45 |
Edyta Jurkiewicz-Rohrbacher University of Hamburg, Universität Regensburg Translation task as a method for testing the syntactic competence of Large Language Models: Dative ambiguity in Russian |
16:50 – 17:10 |
Hui Xu1, Thomas Asselborn1, Haiyan Hu-von Hinüber2.3, Oskar von Hinüber4, Sylvia Melzer1 1University of Hamburg, 2Max-Weber-Kolleg, 3Shandong-Universität, 4Akademie der Wissenschaften und Literatur Tracing the Palola Shahi Royal Genealogy by Fusing LLMs and Databases?: A Case Study |
17:15 – 17:35 |
Christian Reul, Maximilian Nöth, Herbert Baier, Florian Langhanki, Kevin Chadbourne University of Würzburg Invited presentation: Human-Centred Open-Source Automatic Text Recognition for the Humanities with OCR4all |
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=ki2024
Workshop Organisers
- Dr Sylvia Melzer, Universität Hamburg & Universität zu Lübeck
- Dr Stefan Thiemann, Universität Hamburg
- Dr Hagen Peukert, Universität Hamburg
- Dr Erik Radisch, Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig
Program Committee
- Thomas Asselborn, Universität Hamburg
- Prof Dr habil Meike Klettke, Universität Regensburg
- Dr Sylvia Melzer, Universität Hamburg & Universität zu Lübeck
- Dr Hagen Peukert, Universität Hamburg
- Dr Erik Radisch, Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig
- Dr Stefan Thiemann, Universität Hamburg
Important dates
- Deadline for Submission: 12 July 2024 (extended)
- Notification of Authors: 31 July 2024
- Camera-Ready: 4 October 2024 (extended)
- Workshop date: 23 September 2024