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Jean Barré @jbarre.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

New little paper “The times are a-changin’: présent vs passé simple in French novels (1811–2024)”👉 hal.science/hal-04984105 With Simon Gabay and @floriancafiero.bsky.social #dhbenelux2025 In french fiction, use of past tenses (especially the passé simple) collapsed over the last 150 years.. so why?

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The times are a-changin': présent vs passé simple in French novels (1811-2024)

The use of présent and passé simple in French has undergone profound changes in recent centuries. By means of a large corpus of novels, we observe major trends that we attempt to describe and explain....

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Inria Paris NLP (ALMAnaCH team) @inriaparisnlp.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

We are happy to announce our next seminar, given by Florian Cafiero @floriancafiero.bsky.social (PSL @ecoledeschartes.bsky.social) entitled "A Riddle in a Haystack: Using Large Language Models for the Detection of Rare Phenomena" on Friday 7th March at 11am CET. Details here: t.co/pPbWfkALM4!

Florian Cafiero - "A Riddle in a Haystack: Using Large Language Models for the Detection of Rare Phenomena" - ALMAnaCH seminar 7th March 2025 at 11am CET

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Andres Karjus @andreskarjus.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Open funded PhD position at Tallinn Uni, School of Digital Technologies: Computational phenomenology of first-person experiences www.tlu.ee/en/dt/applyi...

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Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) @adho-org.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Hello DH community! We’re excited to join this space and look forward to connecting with you all on conferences, publications, presentations, collaborations, training opportunities and highlighting various activities happening across the digital humanities community. #DigitalHumanities#ADHO

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Brandon Walsh @walshbr.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

For locals: I'm happy to announce that the CFP for next year’s Graduate Fellowship in Digital Humanities (often referred to as the DH Fellows program for short) has now been posted. Applications due February 15th, 2025. scholarslab.lib.virginia.edu/digital-huma...

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Digital Humanities Fellows Program

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Wissam Antoun @wissamantoun.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

CamemBERT 2.0: A Smarter French 🇫🇷 Language Model Aged to Perfection 👌 We release a much-needed update for the previous. SOTA French encoder LM. We introduce two new models CamemBERTa-v2 and CamemBERT-v2, based on the DeBERTaV3 and RoBERTa recipe. So what's new? [1/8]

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Computational Humanities Research @comphumresearch.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

🔍 The full program for #CHR2024 is now available! Join us for cutting-edge computational humanities research and discussions. See the complete schedule at: 2024.computational-humanities-research.org/programme/

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Computational Humanities Research 2024

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Artjoms Šeļa @artjomshl.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Didn't find one, so made a computational literary studies starter pack, with notable bunch of european folks and early career scholars. My circle here is small, so please reply/dm to be added or removed and suggest people from your networks! go.bsky.app/4et1nxZ

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Alberto Acerbi @acerbialberto.com · 15/08/2024

"word entropy of American English has been rising steadily since around 1900 [...] with short-form media such as news and magazines having higher entropy than long-form media, and social media feeds having higher entropy stil" www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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The rising entropy of English in the attention economy - Communications Psychology

American English has become more information dense over the last 100 years, likely driven by competition for human attention.

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James O’Sullivan @jamesosullivan.bsky.social · 11/01/2024

Pleased to see that “Topic modelling literary interviews from The Paris Review” has just been published in Digital Scholarship in the Humanities (DSH): doi.org/10.1093/llc/... It’s open access (with thanks to IReL). @derekgreene.bsky.social @uccresearch.bsky.social

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Jason Heppler @jasonheppler.org · 10/01/2024

We are accepting applications for the Gerda Henkel Fellowship in Digital History, a joint partnership with the German Historical Institute and @rrchnm.bsky.social. Applications are due February 4, 2024.

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Apply Now for the Gerda Henkel Fellowship in Digital History – Roy Rosenzweig Center for History a...

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Paulina (Paula) Kolata @paulakolata.bsky.social · 29/12/2023

3 PhD positions at the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies at the University of Copenhagen Fully salaried. Deadline 11 February 2024 jobportal.ku.dk/phd/?show=16...

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PhD scholarships at the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies University of Copenhagen

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Ndocist @ndocist.eurosky.social · 25/12/2023

Available for beta testing: Zotero for Android L'essentiel y est sauf un connecteur de navigateur, l'édition de bibliographie... Synchronisation par compte personnel OK en espérant avoir assez de mémoire A tester... By @zotero.bsky.social

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Available for beta testing: Zotero for Android

We're happy to announce the beta of Zotero for Android. You can install the app from the Google Play Store:

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Cecily Raynor @cecilyraynor.bsky.social · 15/12/2023

DH Folks, I am delighted to be a part of planning the 2024 Canadian Society for Digital Humanities Conference, which will take place at McGill from the 16th-19th of June. If you could please lend a hand in sharing this CFP, that would be fantastic: csdh-schn.org/csdh-schn-co...

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Lauren Klein @laurenfklein.bsky.social · 12/12/2023

Re-upping this job ad for a postdoc with the Atlanta Interdisciplinary AI Network. Applications due Jan 16th. Feel free to reach out with questions!

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Federico Pianzola @fpianz.eurosky.social · 08/12/2023

#CHR2023 has been a very rich experience! Already looking forward to CHR2024 in Aarhus where we'll have some first results from the GOLEM project golemlab.eu Btw, we're also hiring a PhD to work on the computational analysis of narrative in argumentative text www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor... #nlproc

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Marie Puren @mpuren.bsky.social · 07/12/2023

Very proud to have organized Computational Humanities Research 2023 in Paris with @floriancafiero.bsky.social at EPITA. Nothing would have been possible without the support of EPITA, the ARIANE consortium and Humanistica. We welcome 150 people from all over Europe, the US and even Australia!

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Martin Grandjean @martingrandjean.ch · 27/11/2023

La conférence #HNR2024 est également ouverte aux contributions en français ! Venez présenter vos recherche en analyse de réseaux historiques à Lausanne: historicalnetworkresearch.github.io/lausanne/aac/ (délai de l'appel 31.01.24)

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The Historical Network Research Conference 2024 in Lausanne

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Jean-Philippe Cointet @jphcoi.bsky.social · 25/11/2023

🌍 Applications for visiting professors on Democracy & AI @sciencespo are still open until December 15. The Open Institute for Digital Transformation is funding 2 semester-long stays in one of Sciences Po’s world-class research centers in Paris.

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Annika Bärwald @annikabaerwald.bsky.social · 24/11/2023

10 postdoctoral fellowships at the Aarhus Institute of Adanced Studies (AIAS): 23 months, open to researchers of all disciplines. Deadline: 1 February 2024 @aiasdk.bsky.social

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10 individual fellowships open for application at AIAS

AIAS-AUFF Fellowships

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Artjoms Šeļa @artjomshl.bsky.social · 22/11/2023

Proceedings of Computational Humanities Research 2023 are out! 830 pages 😱 ceur-ws.org/Vol-3558/ Impossible without heroic help from @folgertk.bsky.social

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CEUR-WS.org/Vol-3558 - Computational Humanities Research Conference 2023

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Tommi Somersuo @tommis.fi · 22/11/2023

UltraFastBERT, a BERT model using only 0.3% of its neurons for inference, matching the performance of standard BERT models. Achieving up to 78x speedup over traditional methods. #NLP #LLMs #BertGoBrrrt

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Exponentially Faster Language Modelling

Language models only really need to use an exponential fraction of their neurons for individual inferences. As proof, we present UltraFastBERT, a BERT variant that uses 0.3% of its neurons during...

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Martin Grandjean @martingrandjean.ch · 16/11/2023

[CFP] I am pleased to announce the opening of the call for papers for the #HNR2024 conference: historicalnetworkresearch.github.io/lausanne/ Do you apply network analysis to historical subjects? Come to Lausanne in July! Deadline January 31, 2024 Please share!

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Acermendax @acermendax.bsky.social · 22/09/2023

À voir ou à revoir : l'entretien avec le chercheur Florian Cafiero, auteur de "Affaires de Style". Dans la playlist des Entretiens de Ca Coule de Source sur Épique Épochè.

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Une science du Style [ Ça Coule de Source n°4 - Rediff]

Le magazine de la zététique en ligne.ENTRETIEN avec Florian Cafiero.Co-auteur de "Affaire de styles", il a travaillé sur l'hypothèse selon laquelle Molière n...

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Jean-Baptiste Camps @jbcamps.bsky.social · 09/11/2023

🚨 last days to apply (deadline 15 Nov.) ! The ERC project LostMA is recruiting: 1. a post-doc in #complexity science for 2 years (renewable for 2 more); 2. a data-architect and curator for 4 years. Menu: medieval manuscripts, evolutionary models & data analysis at a scale rarely attempted!

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