CHR2025 showcased outstanding work, highlighting cutting-edge computational approaches to humanities research. A heartfelt thank you to everyone who participated, whether by presenting your work or contributing to meaningful discussions at the conference.

We are delighted to announce the winners of the two ECR Best Paper Awards (Long Paper and Short Paper), generously funded by Digital Scholar. Given the high quality of submissions, we are also pleased to recognise honourable mentions (open-rank) for outstanding papers that were shortlisted in the selection process.

ECR Best Long Paper

Winner

The CHR 2025 ECR Best Long Paper Award was won by:

The One and Only? Authorship Verification on Jan van Boendale and the Middle Dutch Antwerp School Caroline Vandyck

Honourable mention (open-rank)

Podcasts as Data: Building a Dataset for Large-Scale Audio Content Analysis Loren Verreyen

ECR Best Short Paper

Winner

The CHR 2025 ECR Best Short Paper Award was won by:

Moving Pictures of Thought: Extracting Visual Knowledge in Charles S. Peirce’s Manuscripts with Vision-Language Models Carlo Teo Pedretti, Davide Picca, and Dario Rodighiero

Honourable mention (open-rank)

Cluster Ambiguity in Networks as Substantive Knowledge Mathieu Jacomy, Tommaso Elli, Andrea Benedetti, Guillaume Plique, Benjamin Ooghe-Tabanou, Paul Girard, and Alexis Jacomy