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SP-09: Language Models in Literary Analysis & Digital Preservation of Cultural Heritage
Time:
Wednesday, 16/July/2025:
11:00am - 12:30pm
Session Chair: Philipp Sauer , Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften
Location: B304 (TB) Zoom link to be included 64 places
Presentations
Strictly Speaking: Character Attribution in Literary Dialogue with Language Models
Sarah Griebel 1 , Glen Layne-Worthey 1,2 , Ryan Dubnicek1,2 , Daniel J. Evans1 , J. Stephen Downie1,2
1 School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, United States of America; 2 HathiTrust Research Center, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, United States of America
This paper explores techniques for automatic speaker attribution in literary novels using fine-tuned and prompted large language models.
Modificar para Restaurar? Implicações éticas do restauro digital de fotografias históricas através de Inteligência Artificial Generativa
Daniela Teixeira Gomes
NOVA FCSH, Portugal
A presente comunicação pretende promover uma reflexão deontológica sobre a integração de ferramentas de IA generativa no restauro digital de fotografias históricas. Através do debate teórico e exemplos práticos, são levantadas importantes questões que concernem a salvaguarda da autenticidade histórica, sendo necessária uma contribuição da humanística digital na sua aplicação.
Identifying Humor, Critique, and Gender: Computational Analysis of the Gracioso Archetype in Spanish Golden Age Theater
Allison Anne Keith 1 , Antonio Rojas Castro 2 , Kerstin Jung1 , Hanno Ehrlicher2 , Sebastian Padó1
1 University of Stuttgart, Germany; 2 University of Tübingen, Germany
Playwrights of the Spanish Baroque period (1600-1700) subverted classical theater conventions, creating new norms for the contemporary audience. In this paper we examine one new norm, the character archetype, 'gracioso' a humorous servant character. We investigate three aspects of the characterization of the gracioso using natural language processing tools.
North York Recipe for Healing: Community-Based Digital Storytelling Archive
Jingshu Yao
University of Toronto, Canada
“North York Recipes for Healing” (2023) is an open-access digital archive of oral histories, presented through ArcGIS Story map. The project documented the experience of the East Asian communities in Toronto, Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic, and encouraged the community to heal together through sharing culinary knowledge and stories.
Save the dates - Event-Based Modeling and Preserving Cultural Heritage of Dance in the German Democratic Republic
Philipp Sauer 1 , Melanie Gruß2 , Caroline Helm 2 , Uwe Kretschmer1 , Franziska Naether1 , Patrick Primavesi2
1 Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Germany; 2 Universität Leipzig, Germany
The German Democratic Republic saw specific developments of pratices of dance during the division of Germany. Our contribution presents a pilot project to catalogue and preserve the cultural heritage of dance in the GDR through digital methods and engagement with contemporary witnesses.
