Season’s Greetings from Discourse Lab

The festive season is a time of storytelling, sharing experiences, and building connections – all elements at the heart of discourse linguistics 🙂 This year, we have looked into fervent negotiations of expertise, examined moral judgements in the health domain, dissected controversial discourses and smirked as our colleagues confronted the limitations of talking to cat robots. Time to celebrate the power of words to create understanding!

We thank all readers and members of the DL community for their continued support, enthusiasm and valuable insights. Together, we look forward to greeting 2024 with exciting collaborations spanning disciplines such as biology, politics, linguistics, sociology and philosophy, to uncover linguistic ressources in corpus building projects and to fostering understanding of the controversial discourses of our time. Stay tuned for updates from DL research, calls, job opportunities and more.

Happy Holidays and an Inspiring New Year!

Now available: Digital Methods Platform for Arts and Humanities “Dimpah”

DARIAH Teach has launched finalized EU project

The EU project Dimpah (Digital Methods Platform for Arts and Humanities), funded 2021-2023, has been completed and as of September, all the seven planned developing open educational resources (OERs) are available at the DARIAH Teach platform:

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Reisekostenstipendien des DHd-Verbands für Studierende

Bis Freitag, 15. Dezember, für eines von insgesamt 16 Stipendien bewerben und kostenfrei zu Konferenzen reisen

Lust auf wissenschaftlichen Austausch, aber das nötige Kleingeld fehlt? Damit dem vertieften Engagement mit eigenen und aktuellen Forschungsthemen nichts im Wege steht, vergibt der Verband der Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum (DHd), gemeinsam mit dem Konsortium NFDI4Culture und dem Konsortium NFDI4Memory insgesamt elf “Early-Career”-Stipendien für die Teilnahme (mit oder ohne eigenen Beitrag) an der DHd-Jahreskonferenz 2024 (26.2.–1.3.2024, Passau). Weitere fünf Stipendien werden für Reise und Unterkunft zu DH-nahen Tagungen nach Wahl ausgeschrieben. Weiterlesen

CONFERENCE | NLP for Digital Humanities and the Uralic Languages

NLP4DH & IWCLUL 2023 from December 1-3 in Tokyo, Japan

Can’t make it to Tokyo this weekend? Check out the conference proceedings right here.

Waseda University, Tokyo, is becoming a hub for exploring the intersection of NLP and humanities research from December 1-3, emphasizing Uralic languages and wider linguistic variety, as it hosts the 3rd International Conference on Natural Language Processing for Digital Humanities and the 8th International Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Uralic Languages. The collaboration promises to open new research and practical avenues, especially in under-researched languages, thus contributing, among others, to minority language preservation and development.

How to unearth emotions from Ancient Roman inscriptions? Which searchable Mordvin language corpora are out there? How to integrate ChatGPT in research and teaching?  Those interested in state-of-the-art NLP applications for DH and/or major and minor languages of Finland, Hungary, Russia, Japan and other countries can check out the proceedings (draft) and lightning presentations on the conference website.