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Wouter Haverals

@wouterhaverals.bsky.social

Associate Research Scholar @princetoncdh.bsky.social | Computational Humanities

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β€˜Written in the Style of’: ChatGPT and the Literary Canon

The first research paper from WashU's AI Humanities Lab, which I co-direct with Gabi Kirilloff, is available now in the Harvard Data Science Review! Read to learn more about how (badly) current LLMs are at replicating literary style: doi.org/10.1162/9960...

10.01.2026 21:14 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œTahnk you for reaching put! I will be OOOO four the holiday brake and look forward too connection when I return!”

18.12.2025 14:40 β€” πŸ‘ 671    πŸ” 86    πŸ’¬ 22    πŸ“Œ 11

There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom

12.12.2025 18:23 β€” πŸ‘ 5604    πŸ” 1604    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 162
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Listen to the First Computer-Generated Christmas Carols, From Alan Turing's Lab "Jingle Bells" and "Good King Wenceslas" haven't sounded like this in a long time.

What an absolute pleasure it was to attend the 6th edition of CHR! Huge thanks to everyone who helped make this edition even better than the last #CHR2025 Onward to Manchester, home of some wonderful computing history:
www.atlasobscura.com/articles/com...

13.12.2025 14:07 β€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Very happy to present the paper that @joeymccollum.bsky.social and I wrote on applying Bayesian phylogenetics to the medieval Dutch Martijn Trilogy at #CHR2025 :)

10.12.2025 14:40 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Presented my paper "The One and Only? Authorship Verification on Jan van Boendale and the Middle Dutch Antwerp School" on #CHR2025 and it won the ERC Best Long Paper Award! Delighted and grateful :) @comphumresearch.bsky.social

12.12.2025 17:59 β€” πŸ‘ 30    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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What do we reveal about ourselves when we talk to AI? πŸ€”πŸ’­
In our new WiAIR – Women in AI Research episode, we speak with Maria Antoniak about personal disclosures in human–LLM conversations β€” and what they mean for ethical AI development. (1/8🧡)

12.12.2025 17:27 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2

Elementary, my dear BERT!

12.12.2025 16:58 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
More Sound, More Soundness? Improving Authorship Attribution with Phonemes

it was! their paper is available here: anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0...

12.12.2025 15:47 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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improving authorship attribution using phonetic features β€” fascinating work by Simon Gabay, @floriancafiero.bsky.social, and Jean-Luc Falcone at #CHR2025

12.12.2025 15:38 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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@wenyishang.bsky.social and @emilyue.bsky.social built a remark-based classifier, checking the consistency between 6th century Chinese poetry criticism and β€œgrades” assigned to classical Chinese poetry #CHR2025

12.12.2025 14:31 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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the original masking objective, or: filling in the black dβ€’t in EEBO-TCP transcriptions, presented at #CHR2025 by Kiara M.H. Liu, Martin Mueller and @mattwilkens.bsky.social

12.12.2025 12:47 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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@jbarre.bsky.social, @oseminck.bsky.social, Antoine Bourgois, and @tpoibeau.bsky.social built a detective detector, tracing the different archetypes in French detective fiction #CHR2025

12.12.2025 12:20 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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cool work at #CHR2025 by @julianeugarten.bsky.social on the sentiment trajectories in fanfiction! @comphumresearch.bsky.social

12.12.2025 10:09 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Graphs showing authors from the Norton Anthology receiving checkout spikes after their death.

Graphs showing authors from the Norton Anthology receiving checkout spikes after their death.

Excited to be in Luxembourg at CHR 2025 to hear about everyone’s amazing work and to share my project with @mellymeldubs.bsky.social and our team. We tracked canonical authors and texts in Seattle Public Library circulation data.

11.12.2025 06:09 β€” πŸ‘ 31    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

I made a feed for #CHR2025 @comphumresearch.bsky.social

bsky.app/profile/did:...

09.12.2025 09:29 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Incredible keynote by @miguelev.bsky.social at @comphumresearch.bsky.social #CHR2025 on what he calls β€œexploratory finetuning”! Drawing on EDA, art, STS and DH to develop innovative ways to OCR right to left languages (ex Malaysian) and theorizing the method. Such exciting cutting edge work!

10.12.2025 15:15 β€” πŸ‘ 25    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

I just presented my podcast dataset at #CHR2025. Interested in analysing 412 days worth of podcast episodes? You can find the fully transcribed dataset here: zenodo.org/records/1746... πŸŽ™οΈ

10.12.2025 14:51 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
025 - A Perfect Job is the New Very Good Job A little disclaimer for once, because I usually prefer to praise if I name people. I do not know Dan Cohen nor his work, my criticism of his article is not directed against him personally, but rather

I added a new post on my research blog last week. I wanted to react to a post from Dan Cohen that I've seen circulating on BlueSky last week about Gemini 3, and figured I would add my critical 2 cents to the mix!

alix-tz.github.io/phd/posts/025/

03.12.2025 00:04 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 3
CFP – DH2026 in Daejeon, South Korea

πŸ“’ Deadline Extended! #DH2026 @dh2026daejeon.bsky.social proposal submissions now open until December 15, 2025 (KST). Please share! πŸ”‚

πŸ“ Daejeon, South Korea | July 27–31, 2026 🎯 Theme: "Engagement"

Submit your long/short papers, posters, workshops & mini-conferences!

πŸ”— dh2026.adho.org/cfp

04.12.2025 13:16 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Read my🧡about our new #AIstories publication, by @annesigrid.bsky.social - read on for floating motifs, cannibalism and more! And honestly just to understand more about what actually characterises LLM-generated storytelling.

27.11.2025 00:12 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Introducing the 'Software Paper': New ways to publish on research software in Computational Humanities Research When Lauren Tilton first approached me about joining the Computational Humanities Research (CHR) journal’s Editorial Board as an Associate Editor, the thing that made the invitation so compelling and ...

β€œThe Software Paper fills a gap for the computational and digital humanities communities...” Thank you to research software engineer extraordinaire @suttonkoeser.bsky.social for leading this initiative for Computational Humanities Research journal. Please share!

26.11.2025 14:04 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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New research shows everyone prefers human writers, including AI! New research shows everyone prefers human writers, including AI!

Editors' Choice: New research shows everyone prefers human writers, including AI! – CDH@Princeton cdh.princeton.edu/news/2025/11...

19.11.2025 17:47 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 3
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πŸ—“οΈ The #CHR2025 programme is online! Browse what’s on the menu here: 2025.computational-humanities-research.org/programme/

Proceedings are coming soon as well. Don’t forget: registration closes on 20 November! #computationalhumanitiesresearch

14.11.2025 16:29 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Torching the Modern-Day Library of Alexandria β€œSomewhere at Google there is a database containing 25 million books and nobody is allowed to read them.”

I curated some readings for class on "data tensions" and the list felt worth sharing. Come on a tour of datasets, books, the web, and AI with me...

We'll start with this piece on the Google Books project: the hopes, dreams, disasters, and aftermath of building a public library on the internet.

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14.11.2025 16:39 β€” πŸ‘ 77    πŸ” 26    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 2

that'd be so useful! reminds me of the Data Provenance Initiative; they audited 1.8K datasets and found 70% had unspecified/unreliable licenses! www.nature.com/articles/s42...

17.10.2025 12:31 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

no worries! thx for reskeeting! :)

13.10.2025 16:22 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

haha, what a plot twist, AI achieves consciousness through self-doubt

13.10.2025 14:15 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ“£ New preprint! We know humans are biased against AI-creativity. But what about LLMs, now often judging creativity in various contexts? Do they replicate, transform, or amplify this bias? We tested it. Turns out: AI is 2.5X more biased against its own work than humans. arxiv.org/pdf/2510.08831 🧡

13.10.2025 13:56 β€” πŸ‘ 70    πŸ” 27    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 7

Can AI be creative if it doesn't believe it can? We asked 556 humans and 13 LLMs to judge creative writing. Then we lied about who wrote what. Result: AI has learned to distrust itself, showing 2.5Γ— stronger bias than humans against AI-labeled creativity. Proud of this work with @mmvty.bsky.social πŸ‘‡

13.10.2025 14:02 β€” πŸ‘ 27    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0