Our PI, Prof. Maciej Eder, presented his keynote speech, Computational Stylistics in Action, at #DH2026 in Daejeon, South Korea last week. See what they did with the required equipment to win the Antonio Zampolli prize! computationalstylistics.github.io/presentation...

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Awesome to hear Maciej Eder now present the Zampolii Prize keynote at #DH2026. Slides are here: https://computationalstylistics.github.io/presentations/zampolli/

OPEN CALL: We are happy to announce we will be hosting the annual European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information in Tartu in August 2027! Submit your proposal at easychair.org/cfp/ESSLLI27 by October this year. We hope to see you in Tartu! Photo: Mana Kaasik

If you missed A. Karjus's brilliant presentation on AI in Research last month, you can now watch it on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Daef... The AI-teh seminar series continues in September.

AI-teh seminar 08.06.26. Andres Karjus- AI in Research: from Annotators to Assistants and Agents

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That's not a "real" paper btw But in a recent workshop for @digitsut.bsky.social I talked AI agents &how it's now trivial to gen full (tho likely mediocre) papers&theses in ~1h. Asked for example topic, had codex mine data&write; they uploaded it w slides Now Google Scholar wants to index it.

Last week, DigiTS celebrated the end of the semester in the beautiful Estonian countryside. Despite some rain, it was a pleasure to discover old manor houses, bike through the forest, enjoy the seaside and play some chess at the Rakvere Castle.

🗓️ June 8 ⏰ 16:00-17:30 EEST 📍Ülikooli 18-139 & Zoom AI-teh seminar #2: today, @andreskarjus.bsky.social, UT Associate Professor of Computational Social Science will be speaking on AI in Research: from Annotators to Assistants and Agents. Join us in Tartu or via Zoom: lnkd.in/eTAfAcbE

#CCLS2026: First talk of the conference is "Contrasting Verbal Prominence and Network Centrality. A Typology of Dramatic #Characters" by @botondszemes.bsky.social, examining different dimensions of character prominence in plays. #DraCor #Shakespeare #JCLS Preprint: doi.org/10.26083/tud...

We are launching a new hybrid seminar series, in which we invite colleagues from the humanities and social sciences to present how they use AI in their research. The seminars are practically oriented demonstrations of instances of implementing AI at any stage of research. More: digits.ut.ee/ai-teh/

DigiTS promotes a good work-pasta balance for all its employees. 🍝

Looking forward to seeing you in Tartu or on Zoom later today to discuss academic publishing in transition, multilingual and open scholarshop and the evolving role of AI in research and knowledge production. More information and registration: digits.ut.ee/events/

On April 22, we are organising a seminar on publication strategies with presentations by @artjomshl.bsky.social, Institute of Czech Literature, and Alan C. Arce & F. Forghan-Parast from the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab @uvic.ca. Join in Tartu or via Zoom at 18:00-19.30 EEST! digits.ut.ee/events

A special issue of Economies is now accepting submissions! The editors, incl. @thiagodoliveira.bsky.social welcome papers providing new evidence on the role of climate risks, geopolitical uncertainty & macroeconomic policies in shaping resilient economic systems. www.mdpi.com/journal/econ...

On May 6-8, we are organising a workshop on Network Analysis in the Humanities. Registration is now open! Speakers include M. Romanello from University of Zurich & M. Eder, B. Szemes & T. D. Oliveira from the DigiTS team at University of Tartu. See more: digits.ut.ee/network-anal...

The #DH2026 keynote speakers have been announced and we are happy to share the DigiTS PI Maciej Eder, winner of the 2026 Antonio Zampolli Prize has been selected as one of the main speakers. See you in South Korea! 🎉

DH2026 | X/Twitter (@DH2026_Daejeon)@dh2026daejeon.bsky.social · 5mo ago

📢 Announcing the #DH2026 Keynote Speakers! 🔹 Maciej Eder – 2026 Antonio Zampolli Prize (stylo & Computational Stylistics Group) 🔹 Kim Hyeon – Pioneer of Digital Humanities in South Korea 🔹 Kirsten Thorpe – Indigenous Education & Research, UTS 🔗 dh2026.adho.org/keynotes/ #DigitalHumanities #ADHO

Today, we are participating at the Faculty's Career Day! You'll find us in the lobby of Lossi 3, until 14.30. We are introducing our DH minor, the DigiTS project and internships opportunities. After the event, Prof. Maciej Eder will be giving an overview of the project at 15 (Lossi 3-207). Welcome!

Our Researcher in Digital Humanities, Thiago Dumont Oliveira has published a paper investigating the changing nature of French drama between 1700-1900. Results indicate the topical distribution of French drama changed profoundly after the French Revolution. Read more: arxiv.org/abs/2602.00588

Our Researcher in Digital Humanities, @botondszemes.bsky.social spoke about Central European literary memory as reflected in Wikipedia and the possible use of LLMs in cleaning Wikidata query results on a workshop Vienna on January 23rd, focusing on Wikipedia, Wikidata, and literary studies.

Ever wonder if there's a specific “language” to Disinformation? The DigiTS reading group discussed N. Lebbernegg's, @jamoeberl.bsky.social & co's “Do You Speak Disinformation?” which explores how explainable machine learning can be used to spot deceptive news articles based on style & structure.

What is ETIS, how are publications classified, where to find information about funding opportunities and how to avoid predatory journals? Our week started off with learning! See the slides by UT Grant Office's K. Lauk at sisu.ut.ee/wp-content/u.... All DigiTS materials are available on our website.

What a year! Wishing everyone a beautiful end of the year and a joyful 2026! Picture: Prof. Liina Lindström being awarded 💫 'Project of the Year' for DigiTS at the UT Faculty of Arts and Humanities Christmas party. Photo: Kaimar T. Tamm.

DigiTS has been selected as the Project of the Year 2025 by the University of Tartu Faculty of Arts and Humanities! 🎉 Thank you for the recognition- it’s wonderful to see our impact reaching beyond our own Institute of Estonian and General Linguistics.

Last week, our centre hosted the seminar Large Language Models and the Estonian Language: the State of the Art, followed by a fruitful roundtable discussion with local experts. All slides of the presentations are now accessible at our website: digits.ut.ee/events/.

November may be Estonia's gloomiest month but going to a bog + culture hunt is never a bad idea. 🚶Pictures from the team's first day trip to Southern Estonia last week- Meenikunno bog + Värska Farm Museum, where we enjoyed learning about Seto culture and got the chance to hear Seto leelo singing.

DigiTS weekly reading club has kicked off! 🎭 On the 1st meeting, our DH researcher Botond Szemes's recent paper on comp. approaches to Shakeaspeare was discussed. Interestingly, his analysis suggested lexicon-based and LLM-based approaches produce similar sentiment arcs for Shakespeare’s plays.

Registration for the event Large Language Models and the Estonian Language: the State of the Art still open until 15.11. Join in person or via Zoom! The event will be opened by Prof. Maciej Eder, followed by experts from the Institute of the Estonian Language & UT Institute of Computer Science.

Welcome to DigiTS, Thiago Dumont Oliveira! Thiago's research bridges computational linguistics, network analysis, intellectual history and cultural history. He is currently investigating the evolution of Italian, French and German libretti in the 17th and 18th centuries using NLP techniques.

On Nov 19 at 14-16 (EET), DigiTS is organising a hybrid seminar on LLM-s and the Estonian language, focussing on how Estonian language data are currently being collected for AI development & what strategies are used to assess quality and create benchmarking frameworks. digihum.ut.ee/en/news/semi...

Seminar on large language models and the Estonian language on November 19

On November 19 from 14:00 to 16:00, the University of Tartu Centre for Digital Humanities will host an English-language seminar titled Large Language Models and the Estonian Language: the State of the...

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