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Mikko Tolonen

@tolonen.bsky.social

Professor Digital Humanities, University of Helsinki. Early modern studies; intellectual history; PI of Helsinki Computational History Group

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Mikko Tolonen@tolonen.bsky.social · last mo.

Our article “Translation Mining: An AI-Driven Taxonomy of Eighteenth-Century Anglo-French Translation Practices” is out: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... We map translations between ECCO and Gallica at paragraph level (500k titles), offer a data-driven taxonomy, and release the data + demo. OA.

Translation mining: An AI-driven taxonomy of eighteenth-century Anglo-French translation practices

This paper introduces the concept of “translation mining”, a cross-lingual embedding approach that bridges close reading and large-scale quantitative analysis of historical translations. Focusing o...

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Mikko Tolonen@tolonen.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Positive news continue! Our project application "Interpreting Early Modern Intellectual Networks and Texts: an Interdisciplinary Approach (IMPRINT)" has been granted funding by the Research Council of Finland.

Mikko Tolonen@tolonen.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Great news, please share widely: the Faculty of Humanities, University of Helsinki will open a permanent university lecturer position in Digital Humanities in Autumn 2026. Teaching-focused, future-facing methods role, linked to LingDig, HELDIG and SSH-wide methods teaching. More details in August.

Mikko Tolonen@tolonen.bsky.social · 2mo ago

”Computational hermeneutics: why study canonical figures like David Hume in the age of AI?”, published in Digital Enlightenment Studies: digitalenlightenmentstudies.org/article/id/64/

Computational hermeneutics: why study canonical figures like David Hume in the age of AI?

This article argues that figures like David Hume (1711–1776) should be studied in the age of AI not despite computation but through it. Drawing on Enlightenment studies and computational history, I sk...

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Mikko Tolonen@tolonen.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Less than a week until #DHH26 hackathon! Everyone is welcome to the public presentations on 29 May: 👉 www.helsinki.fi/en/helsinki-... In the meantime, explore this spring’s project course work on 18th-century human–animal relationship and symbolism in heraldry: 👉 blogs.helsinki.fi/dh-project-c...

Presentation of #DHH26 Hackathon projects on 29rd May 2026 | Digital Humanities | University of Helsinki

Helsinki Digital Humanities Hackathon is organized on 20 – 29 May 2026 at the University of Helsinki. The event brings together students and researchers of humanities, social sciences and computer sci...

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Mikko Tolonen@tolonen.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Really happy about COMHIS. Papers soon out on “Translation Mining” & “Meaning Matching” (huge efforts). Also a step from text reuse to image reuse, that paper is published in DHQ: dhq.digitalhumanities.org/vol/19/4/000... More to follow. 2026 will be a good year for computational history in HEL.

DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly: Image Reuse in Eighteenth-Century Book History: Large-Scale Data-Driven Study of Headpiece Ornament Variants

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Mikko Tolonen@tolonen.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Excellent opportunity for researchers in computational humanities and AI: a 3-year Research Fellow/Postdoctoral Researcher position in Helsinki focusing on trustworthy AI across linguistic and cultural diversity. jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki... Please spread the word!

Research Fellow/Postdoctoral Researcher in trustworthy AI across linguistic and cultural diversities

Research Fellow/Postdoctoral Researcher in trustworthy AI across linguistic and cultural diversities

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Mikko Tolonen@tolonen.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Good people of LECTIO in Leuven edited a volume on "Charting the Future of Historical Humanities"; out now. I contributed a piece on historical research in the contemporary setting: www.brepolsonline.net/content/book...

From Text to Meaning. Historical Humanities in the Age of AI and Interdisciplinarity | Brepols Online

This outlines how computation can serve historical research when historians and data scientists define questions, data and methods together. It first shows why well-structured sources, such as library...

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Vera Mikkilä@veramikkila.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Hallitus lanseerasi kehysriihessä ennennäkemättömän kuvion. 20M€ tutkijoiden itse hankkimasta EU-rahasta lasketaan lain mukaiseksi t&k-lisärahoitukseksi ja valtion omia panostuksia vähennetään saman verran. Järjestelmätasolla tällainen ajattelu luo käsittämättömän anti-insentiivin.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Mikko Tolonen@tolonen.bsky.social · 4mo ago

New paper from COMHIS group just out at EACL: “Detecting Latin in Historical Books with Large Language Models: A Multimodal Benchmark”. aclanthology.org/2026.eacl-lo... A collaboration across our CASCADE and MECANO Marie Curie Training networks. More to follow.

Detecting Latin in Historical Books with Large Language Models: A Multimodal Benchmark

Yu Wu, Ke Shu, Jonas Fischer, Lidia Pivovarova, David Rosson, Eetu Mäkelä, Mikko Tolonen. Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (V...

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Ruth Ahnert@ruthahnert.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Great job opportunity working with my better half @sebastianahnert.bsky.social on an exciting new #digitalhumanities project in Cambridge, funded by @schmidtsciences.bsky.social and working with fantastic people at CESTA Stanford and DensityDesign Lab Italy. www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

Research Assistant/Research Associate (Fixed Term)

Applications are invited for a full time post-doctoral researcher to work on an international collaboration to develop AI-based solutions for research on archival materials as part of the Humanities

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Voltaire Foundation@voltaire.ox.ac.uk · 7mo ago

📣 Come work with us! #18C 📣 This one is for the #DH crowd! We seek a Content Engineer to assist in maintaining and developing the digital resources of the Voltaire Foundation. More information and application process on our website: voltaire.ox.ac.uk/news-item/va...

Vacancy: Content Engineer

Contract type: Fixed Term Contract (2 years) Hours: Full time (37.5 hours); part time considered at minimum of 0.6 FTE We are a busy and friendly research department within the Humanities Division…

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