CHR2025 Programme
Programme for the pre-conference workshops on Tuesday, 9th December 2025, and the main conference days on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, 10th-12th December 2025.
All accepted papers can be found in the proceedings, published in the Anthology of Computers and the Humanities.
The main venue address of CHR2025 is University of Luxembourg, Belval Campus, 2 place de l’Université, L-4365 Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg. See Finding the Venue.
Tuesday, December 9, 2025 (Pre-conference workshops)
| 08:00 - 16:00 |
Registration - Coffee
MSA 0342090 A-B
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| 09:30 - 13:00 |
Workshop sessions
Workshop 1 (morning session): 3.330
Workshop 2 (morning session): 3.010 Workshop 3 (morning-only session): 3.390 |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch Break: MSA 0342090 A-B |
| 14:30 - 17:00 | Workshop sessions |
Wednesday, December 10, 2025 (Day 1)
| 08:30 - 16:00 |
Registration
MSA 0342090 A-B
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| 08:30 - 09:30 |
Coffee & croissants
MSA 0342090 A-B
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| 09:30 - 10:30 |
Welcome by the LO -
Opening by the President of the CHR -
Address by the Program Committee
3.500
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| 10:30 - 11:00 |
Coffee Break
MSA 0342090 A-B
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| 11:00 - 12:30 |
Session 1A: Narrative, Perception, and Readership / Session 1B: Networks of Knowledge
3.530 / 3.330
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| 12:30 - 13:30 |
Lunch Break
MSA 0342090 A-B
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| 13:30 - 15:00 |
Session 2A: Stylometry and Philology / Session 2B: Audio, Video and Visual Data
3.530 / 3.330
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| 15:00 - 15:30 |
Coffee Break
MSA 0342090 A-B
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| 15:30 - 16:45 |
Keynote 1: Miguel Escobar Varela
3.500
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| 16:45 |
Cocktail reception
MSA 0342090 A-B + A-A
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Session 1
Session 1A: narrative, perception, and readership (11:00-12:30)
"Crying like a Baby": Survival Analysis and the Multimodal Memory of Holocaust Survivors(long)
Llamas Don't Understand Fiction: Application and Evaluation of Large Language Models for Knowledge Extraction from Short Stories in English(long)
Echoes of Antiquity: Towards Understanding History through Human and LLM-Based Classical Text Translations(short)
Causal Effect of Character Gender on Readers' Preferences(short)
Session 1B: Networks of knowledge (11:00-12:30)
Patterns of Canon: A Multilingual Network Study(long)
Reading Beyond the Center. Modeling Book Encounters in the Danish Periphery (1800-1850)(long)
Cluster ambiguity in networks as substantive knowledge(short)
Bridging Semantics and Structure: a Typed Prosopographical Network \of Maximilian I's Court(short)
“Works on My Machine”: A Case Study of Replicability Challenges in Computational Humanities Research(short)
Session 2
Session 2A: stylometry and philology (13:30-15:00)
Wauchier, Is That You? A multi-manuscript authorship analysis of Saint Lambert's life(long)
The One and Only? Authorship Verification on Jan van Boendale and the Middle Dutch Antwerp School(long)
From a Computer-Assisted Stemma to a Phylogenetic Tree: The Medieval Dutch Martijn Trilogy by Jacob van Maerlant(long)
Biblicality of Early Medieval Canon Law through the Lens of Language Modeling(long)
Session 2B: audio, video and visual data (13:30-15:00)
Podcasts as Data: Building a Dataset for Large-Scale Audio Content Analysis(long)
Sitcom Form and Function: Pacing and Production in a Collection of Thirty U.S. Series(long)
Quantifying Archival Silences: Phylogenetic Diversity Analysis of Controlled Vocabulary Utilization(long)
Heritage Weaver: Classifying, Searching, and Linking Museum Data with Multimodal AI(long)
Thursday, December 11, 2025 (Day 2)
| 08:30 - 16:00 |
Registration
MSA 0342090 A-B
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| 08:00 - 09:00 |
Coffee & croissants
MSA 0342090 A-B
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| 09:00 - 10:30 |
Lightning Talks
3.530
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| 10:30 - 11:00 |
Coffee break
MSA 0342090 A-B
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| 11:00 - 12:30 |
Session 3A: Images / Session 3B: LLMs and Content Mining
3.530 / 3.330
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| 12:30 - 13:30 |
Lunch Break
MSA 0342090 A-B
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| 13:30 - 15:00 |
Session 4A: Ancient World / Session 4B: Modelling Culture
3.540 / 3.330
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| 15:00 - 15:30 |
Coffee break
MSA 0342090 A-B
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| 15:30 - 17:00 |
Session 5A: Modelling Culture / Session 5B: Rhetoric, Representation, and Interpretation
3.540 / 3.330
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| 17:00 - 18:00 |
Poster walk-around
MSA 0342090 A-B
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| 20:00 | Social event |
Detailed View
Session 3
Session 3A: images (11:00-12:30)
Castles, Battlefields, and Continents: A Dataset of Maps from Literature(long)
The Illustrated Page: Analyzing Illustrations of Historical Childrens Books Using Citizen Science(long)
Vision Language Models for Novel Art Therapy Evaluation in Schizophrenia(short)
Framing the Canon: A Computational Study of Canonicity in Danish Golden Age Paintings (1750-1870)(short)
Classification of Script Types and Modes for Medieval Hebrew Manuscripts(short)
Session 3B: LLMs and content mining (11:00-12:30)
The Learnability Hierarchy of News Values: What Makes Some Journalistic Concepts Harder to Classify?(long)
Between Woolf and Homer: An Explorative Approach to Intertextuality Detection using Large Language Models(long)
Identifying stance-bearing keywords in public debates with instruction-tuned language models(short)
Scalable Verb-Based Literary Semantics(short)
Continuous sentiment scores for literary and multilingual contexts(short)
Session 4
Session 4A: Ancient World (13:30-15:00)
Embedded in the Labyrinth: Investigating Latin Word Senses through Transformer-Based Contextual Embeddings and Attention(long)
Semantic Search for Ancient Inscriptions(long)
Towards a Computational Study of Ancient Greek Rhyme(long)
Automatic Named Entity Linking for Ancient Greek with a Domain-Specific Knowledge Base(long)
Session 4B: modelling culture (13:30-15:00)
The Rest is Silence: Leveraging Unseen Species Models for Computational Musicology(long)
Cultural Collapse: Toward a generative formalism for AI cultural production(long)
Transmission and Survival of Iberian Patristic Texts (3rd–5th Centuries)(long)
Robust Modelling of Ordinal Survey Data Using Probabilistic Programming(long)
Session 5
Session 5A: modelling culture (15:30-17:00)
Global Beats, Local Tongue: Studying Code Switching in K-pop Hits on Billboard Charts(long)
Linguistic tools in musical stylometry(long)
Global Linguistic Diversity - Adapting the Leinster-Cobbold Framework from Ecology for Humanities Research(long)
Estranged Predictions: Measuring Semantic Category Disruption with Masked Language Modelling(long)
Session 5B: rhetoric, representation, and interpretation (15:30-17:00)
Characterizing Religious Rhetoric in the U.S. Congressional Record(long)
Interrogating Racism in the Medical Literature Using Word Embeddings(long)
Building Historical Corpora with Multimodal LLMs: Epistemic Gaps and Misreadings in 18th-Century Russian Books(long)
Says Who? Effective Zero-Shot Annotation of Focalization(long)
Lightning Talks & Poster Session
Lightning Talks (9:00-10:30)
Archipelagic Visualizations: Mapping Imperial Space in 19th-Century Travel Writing Using Voyant Tools
Bringing together close reading questions and distant reading methods in the analysis of archived web
Einstein AI: Contextual Retrieval from the Collected Papers of Albert Einstein Using RAG and GraphRAG Architectures
Modeling Intertextuality: An Ontological Framework for Literary Studies
Bayesian inference of sex-specific mortality profiles and product yields from unsexed cattle zooarchaeological remains
Does culture evolve “one funeral at a time”?
Automating the Study of Digital Literary Memory: A Multilingual LLM Pipeline for Wikipedia-Based Cultural Analysis
Measuring the Synchronicity of Historical European Parliamentary Discourse, 1949-2018
Disorder or (self-)murder? Making sense of suicide in 19th-century British newspapers
Mapping Literary Networks through Epigraphs
Low-Cost Synthetic Data Generation for HTR Training: Evaluating a Multimodal Strategy for Historical Manuscript Processing
Quill2Vec: A Tool for Vector Manipulation of Medieval Latin Script
A Diachronic Analysis of Cinematic Trends and Their Reception
Beyond the Statistics: Migration to a Kyiv Suburb through the Lens of the 1897 Census
Speculative Reconstruction and the Ethics of the Fragment: Early Experiments with Generative AI in Art History
Building Better Speculative Fiction Datasets with ISFDB
Leveraging Artificial Intelligence to Promote Scientific Heritage
Digital Genre Boundaries: Network Backbone Analysis of Steam's User-Generated Classification System
Application of T-projection to Fictional Direct Speech Annotation Transfer
When Larger LLMs Aren’t Enough: Word Segmentation in Historical Chinese Texts
Towards animal-centric affective analysis in poetry
Neighbourhood Walks: A New Semantic Topology for Historical Map Text
"Where Empires End: Tracing the Geography of a “Soaring Spirit” in Poetry
Rapid cultural analytics using LLMs: a case of dreams
Poster Session (17:00 - 18:00)
Latent topic and tempo differences between East and West Coast Hip-Hop(short)
Poems Set to Music: A Multimodal Analysis of Schubert's Song Cycle Winterreise(short)
I am too old for this style! A stylometric benchmark of age effect on authorship attribution(short)
How ‘Pagan’ is my text? Information Extraction from untranscribed data(short)Rachael Griffiths and Marieke Meelen
Stylometric Perspectives on the Composition Debate of Acts of Andrew(short)
How Scalable is Quality Assessment of Text Recognition? A Combination of Ground Truth and Confidence(short)
Tracing Colonial Discourse in Dutch Historical Newspapers(short)
Ground Truth Generation for Multilingual Historical NLP using LLMs(short)
The Latin language evolved over time, masked models disregard that(short)
Classifying Medieval Manuscripts by Pen and Support(short)
Benchmarking Methods for Digitizing Print Bibliographies(short)
Tracing Ecological Metaphors in Discourses on Open Science using LLMs and Knowledge Graphs(short)
Unstable Data and the Unusual Case of the Prosody Excerpt in the Digital Library(short)
Canons in the Shadows: A Critical Catalogue of AI’s Unseen Reading List(short)
Blind Text Image Super-resolution for Enhancing the Readability of Fragments Hidden in Book Bindings(short)
Modeling the Invisible: Applying the Unseen Species Model to Chivalric Literature in the Iberian Peninsula(short)
TrochAIc: Metrical Tools for AI Interpretability(short)
Moving Pictures of Thought: Extracting Visual Knowledge in Charles S. Peirce’s Manuscripts with Vision-Language Models(short)
Studying co-occurrences of texts in Middle Dutch prayer books(short)
Toward Tracing Knowledge Flows in Martial Arts: Biographical Data and Interpersonal Contacts(short)
Stylistic Analyses of Human Pose in Theatrical Performances: Computational and Historical Frameworks(short)
Automatic detection and classification of literary character properties in German narratives(short)
Death, Movies, Sci-Fi, and Cancellation: Tracking the Popularity of Norton Anthology Authors in Library Checkout Data(short)
Why do older books survive (sometimes)? Modelling the time distribution of manuscripts with a birth-death approach(short)
Digging through garbage: detection of ‘garbage’ words in digitized historical documents(short)
Beyond Accuracy: Investigating Vision Model Perception on 19th-Century Decorative Arts(short)
Friday, December 12, 2025 (DAY 3)
| 08:00 - 09:00 |
Coffee & croissants
MSA 0342090 A-B
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| 09:00 - 10:00 |
Keynote 2: Els Lefever
3.500
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| 10:00 - 10:30 |
Coffee break
MSA 0342090 A-B
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| 10:30 - 12:00 |
Session 6A: Narratology / Session 6B: Mapping Meaning
3.330 / 3.530
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| 12:00 - 13:00 |
Lunch
MSA 0342090 A-B
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| 13:00 - 14:30 |
Session 7A: NER / Session 7B: Computational Literary Studies
3.330 / 3.530
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| 14:30 - 15:00 |
Coffee break
MSA 0342090 A-B
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| 15:00 - 16:30 |
Session 8A: Computational Literary Studies / Session 8B: Information Retrieval
3.330 / 3.530
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| 16:30 - 18:00 |
Best Paper Award Ceremony - Closing session (conclusion & farewell)
3.500
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Detailed View
Session 6
Session 6A: narratology (10:30-12:00)
When the hero becomes a girl: Presenting characters’ gender with stereotypes in AO3 gender-bending fanfiction(long)
Happily Ever After: Comparing Sentiment Arcs in Emotionally-Inflected Fanfiction Genres Across Fandoms(long)
EmoTracker - A New Framework for Modeling and Forecasting Diachronic Emotion Dynamic(long)
Measuring the Stories in Contemporary Songs(long)
Session 6B: mapping meaning (10:30-12:00)
Text, Terrain, and Algorithms: Searching for Al-Idrisi’s Aqranus with Formal Methods(long)
Mapping News Geography: A Computational Framework for Classifying Local Media Through Geographic Coverage Patterns(long)
Mind the Language Gap in Digital Humanities: LLM-Aided Translation of SKOS Thesaur(long)
Producing Structured Data from Historical Sources: a Preliminary Application to French Senate Tables(long)
Session 7
Session 7A: NER (13:00-14:30)
QaLLM: An LLM-based NER Dataset Curation, Annotation and Evaluation in Historical Urdu Elegies(long)
From Raw Text to Meaningful Information: Named Entity Recognition, Disambiguation, and Semantic Enrichment of a Large Corpus of Historical Police Records (Antwerp, 1876–1945)(long)
Fine-grained Named-Entity Recognition for the East-India Company domain(long)
Towards Comparable Historical NER: Building a Shared Evaluation Corpus for 18th-Century Historical Texts(long)
Session 7B: computational literary studies (13:00-14:30)
Modeling the Construction of a Literary Archetype: The Case of the Detective Figure in French Literature(long)
Zero-shot Methods for Historical Text Restoration(long)
Are You There God? Lightweight Narrative Annotation of Christian Fiction with LMs(long)
Computing the Formal and Institutional Boundaries of Contemporary Genre and Literary Fiction(long)
Session 8
Session 8A: computational literary studies (15:00-16:30)
Was Poetry Graded Validly?: Text Mining Shipin, a Sixth-Century Chinese Work of Literary Criticism(short)
Detecting ``Parasitic Poems'': Quantifying Poetic Style in Late Imperial Chinese Fiction(short)
How are Literary Histories written? An LLM-based Analysis of Objects and Perspectives in German Literary History(short)
Changing Attitudes Toward Animals in Early Modern Dutch Literature(short)
Authorial Filtering and Computational Models: A Dynamic Analysis of Umberto Eco’s Foucault’s Pendulum through a Fluid-Dynamics-Inspired Framework(short)
More Sound, More Soundness? Improving authorship attribution with phonemes(short)
Session 8B: information retrieval (15:00-16:30)
Seeing History Unseen: Evaluating Vision-Language Models for WCAG-Compliant Alt-Text in Digital Heritage Collections(short)
Towards a NAvigator Tool for Dutch Verbaal-Archives: Leveraging Nineteenth-Century Archival Logic for Keyword Search(short)
Evaluation of Large Language Models on hierarchical entity matching for cultural heritage data(short)
Benchmarking Multimodal Large Language Models in Zero-shot and Few-shot Scenarios: preliminary results on studying Christian Iconography(short)
Classifying Name-Date and Year Figures in Mixtec Codices(short)
A Visualization of Word and Document Embeddings (short)