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RCSC:Prof. Patryk Żywica: AI and the Digital Humanities – New Horizons

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Aug 05, 2025 from 10:30 to 01:00 (Europe/Berlin / UTC200)

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The application of artificial intelligence methods in the humanities—particularly in literary studies, intellectual history, and cultural analysis—opens up new analytical and methodological possibilities. This presentation will outline selected areas where AI tools are currently being employed in digital humanities research, with particular attention to recent developments at the intersection of computational and humanistic inquiry.

Examples will include the construction of multilingual text corpora and the use of advanced natural language processing (NLP) models for semantic and syntactic analysis of texts. Special emphasis will be placed on distant reading techniques, which enable the exploration of themes, emotional patterns, and discursive change across large literary datasets. Developments in stylometry, including the use of deep learning for style analysis and authorship attribution, will also be presented.

The presentation will also highlight AI applications relevant to the analysis and preservation of historical and archival materials, such as AI-supported optical character recognition (OCR), the extraction of structured information from texts, and the visualization of conceptual, character, and institutional networks through knowledge graphs. The potential for computer-assisted reconstruction of missing or damaged fragments of historical texts will also be discussed.

This talk is intended as a survey of current trends in the use of AI in humanities research. The examples discussed will illustrate how digital tools can complement traditional scholarly methods, supporting content analysis, archival accessibility, stylistic comparison, and the mapping of cultural and literary networks.

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