Heidelberg Center for Digital Humanities - HCDH

Large Language Models -- the Future of Fundamental Physics? For many fundamental physics applications, transformers, as the state of the art in learning complex correlations, benefit from pretraining on quasi-out-of-domain data. The obvious question is whether...

In a recent project and collaboration with fundamental Physics it could be shown, that it is possible and effective to incorporate an out-of-domain LLM in a simulation of astrophysical data consisting only of non-linguistic data. More informations on how this was achieved: arxiv.org/abs/2506.14757

Von der Kooperation zur Kompetenz und noch viel weiter | Heidelberg School of Education Wie kann KI als Teammitglied die Arbeit in Studium, Unterricht und beruflicher Praxis bereichern? Kollaborativer KI-Hackathon für Studierende von PH und Universität Heidelberg sowie interessierte Dozi...

🤖 Lust auf intensives Teamwork mit #KI?
‼️ Bei unserem mit @hcdh.bsky.social ausgebrachten kollaborativen #KIHackathon am Mi, 13-16 Uhr, sind noch wenige Plätze für Lehrende/Studierende @uniheidelberg.bsky.social / #PHHD frei!

#KI #AI #KITeamwork #LLMs #FutureLiteracies #HigherEd #Lehrkräftebildung

Large Language Models -- the Future of Fundamental Physics? For many fundamental physics applications, transformers, as the state of the art in learning complex correlations, benefit from pretraining on quasi-out-of-domain data. The obvious question is whether...

In a recent project and collaboration with fundamental Physics it could be shown, that it is possible and effective to incorporate an out-of-domain LLM in a simulation of astrophysical data consisting only of non-linguistic data. More informations on how this was achieved: arxiv.org/abs/2506.14757

“AI in Application”: AI teamwork – Achieving more together What does productive collaboration with AI actually look like in everyday university life? In the latest workshop of the “AI in Application” series, hosted by Dr. Florian Nieser and Dr. Thomas Renkert...

On June 2nd, the HCDH and @hse-heidelberg.bsky.social collaborated on a workshop titled "AI teamwork - Achieving more together". Thanks to our hosts, @fnieser.bsky.social and @thomasrenkert.bsky.social, and all the participants for the insightful afternoon!

Read the report: hcdh.hypotheses.org/3098

Legende:

🚬: Bitte vermeiden weil ungesund!

🍿: wenig Einfluss möglich: enjoy the show

🍷: ambivalent - in Maßen und mit kritischem Blick ok

🥦: vernünftige, nachhaltige Praxis

Wir = @hcdh.bsky.social (@fnieser.bsky.social) & @hse-heidelberg.bsky.social

#KIMündigkeit #AI #LLM #uniheidelberg #phhd

GitHub - HCDH-Uni-Heidelberg/chronorhetorics-corpus: A large-scale corpus of political speeches for analyzing temporal figures and political enforcement patterns in times of change. A large-scale corpus of political speeches for analyzing temporal figures and political enforcement patterns in times of change. - HCDH-Uni-Heidelberg/chronorhetorics-corpus

Analyzing temporal rhetorics in political discourse using #TextMining, #NLP and Artificial Intelligence: Our Chronorhetorics project is now on GitHub!

Check it out here: github.com/HCDH-Uni-Hei...

#HCDH #Chronorhetorics #AI #GitHub

“We’ve got the data – what now?”: Corpus Analysis The third session of the workshop series “We’ve got the data – what now?” offered an introduction to corpus analysis. Jonathan Gaede, who prepared this workshop with David Schatz, guided participants ...

On 02.04.25, the third workshop of the series "We've got the data - what now?" took place, this time with an introduction to Corpus Analysis. Thanks to Jonathan Gaede & David Schatz for the successful workshop and thanks to all participants!

Read the report here:
hcdh.hypotheses.org/2827

#HCDH

Impact Day 2025: HCDH and CAEDHET present their projects Last week, on May 14th, the Heidelberg Center for Digital Humanities (HCDH) took part in the University of Heidelberg’s Impact Day 2025 at the Neue Universität to present some of the ongoing projects ...

The HCDH participated in @uniheidelberg.bsky.social's #ImpactDay2025, presenting ongoing projects - from "Chronorethorics" to educational game concepts. Read more here: hcdh.hypotheses.org/3043

#DigitalHumanities #Heidelberg #CAEDHET #Chronorhetorics #ResearchProjects

Impact Day 2025: HCDH and CAEDHET present their projects Last week, on May 14th, the Heidelberg Center for Digital Humanities (HCDH) took part in the University of Heidelberg’s Impact Day 2025 at the Neue Universität to present some of the ongoing projects ...

The HCDH participated in @uniheidelberg.bsky.social's #ImpactDay2025, presenting ongoing projects - from "Chronorethorics" to educational game concepts. Read more here: hcdh.hypotheses.org/3043

#DigitalHumanities #Heidelberg #CAEDHET #Chronorhetorics #ResearchProjects

Bericht zum CAEDHET-Hackathon (04/2025) On April 11, 2025, the CAEDHET research group held its first hackathon, where participants split into three small groups to further develop current and future projects in an intensive working atmosphe...

From TEI-XML tools for medieval texts to a linguistic AI copilot and ethical debates around the EU AI Act — here’s what CAEDHET explored at their first Hackathon.

Read the full report: hcdh.hypotheses.org/2894

#DigitalHumanities #Hackathon #AIinEducation #ComputationalLinguistics #TEI #HCDH

Bericht zum CAEDHET-Hackathon (04/2025) On April 11, 2025, the CAEDHET research group held its first hackathon, where participants split into three small groups to further develop current and future projects in an intensive working atmosphe...

From TEI-XML tools for medieval texts to a linguistic AI copilot and ethical debates around the EU AI Act — here’s what CAEDHET explored at their first Hackathon.

Read the full report: hcdh.hypotheses.org/2894

#DigitalHumanities #Hackathon #AIinEducation #ComputationalLinguistics #TEI #HCDH

Thank you! If you want there is always the opportunity of getting in touch and talk about your project with us. Also we do these kinds of workshops on a regular basis, so there will be more opportunities as well.

“We’ve got the data – what now?”: Corpus Analysis The third session of the workshop series “We’ve got the data – what now?” offered an introduction to corpus analysis. Jonathan Gaede, who prepared this workshop with David Schatz, guided participants ...

On 02.04.25, the third workshop of the series "We've got the data - what now?" took place, this time with an introduction to Corpus Analysis. Thanks to Jonathan Gaede & David Schatz for the successful workshop and thanks to all participants!

Read the report here:
hcdh.hypotheses.org/2827

#HCDH

‘Chronorhetorics’ – short report about a new research project From March 27th to 28th 2025, we attended the international DH Conference “Words in Numbers – Data-Driven Approaches to Texts in the Humanities and Social Sciences” at the ZukunftsZentrumZollverein in...

At the DH #WordsInNumbers Conference 2025, we presented our latest research project: analyzing temporal rhetoric in political discourse using #TextMining, #NLP and artificial intelligence.

Read more and check out our poster: hcdh.hypotheses.org/2862

#DigitalHumanities #Chronorhetorics #AI #HCDH

Florian and Thomas plan to add functions for visualizing semantic and grammatical concepts.

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The second photo shows an attempt at a macroperceptron to investigate information distribution in neural networks.
#DigitalHumanities

Florian und Thomas planen, dass dann auch noch Funktionen zur Visualisierung semantischer und grammatischer Konzepte dazukommen sollen.

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Das zweite Foto stellt den Versuch eines Makroperceptrons zur Untersuchung von Informationsdistribution in neuronalen Netzen dar.
#DigitalHumanities

Another tool reconstructs Middle High German continuous text from annotated TEI XML with additional information and integrates the semantic information as a tooltip. It is modularly expandable with additional TEI XML data with the same annotation or with new ontological data in XML format.

Ein weiteres Tool rekonstruiert aus annotierten & mit Zusatzinfos ausgestatteten TEI-XML einen mittelhochdeutschen Fließtext & integriert die semantischen Infos als Tooltipp. Es ist modular um weitere TEI-XML-Daten in gleicher Annotation erweiterbar o. um neue ontologische Daten im XML-Format.

At the #Hackathon, Jonas, Frederick & Jonathan developed an AI tool that analyzes, tags, and statistically evaluates text—whether as a TXT file, screenshot, or copy-paste. Modular design, expandable, and open to new features—a smart assistant for linguistics and teaching. #ComputationalLinguistics

Between hesitation about replacement & strong optimism, Stefan & Nicole discussed the AI ​​University Ordinance & the EU AI Act at the #Hackathon. Considerations for applications with an advisory function have begun. CAEDHET's goal: to understand responsibility, explain laws & help shape the future.

Florian und Thomas planen, dass dann auch noch Funktionen zur Visualisierung semantischer und grammatischer Konzepte dazukommen sollen.

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Das zweite Foto stellt den Versuch eines Makroperceptrons zur Untersuchung von Informationsdistribution in neuronalen Netzen dar.
#DigitalHumanities

Ein weiteres Tool rekonstruiert aus annotierten & mit Zusatzinfos ausgestatteten TEI-XML einen mittelhochdeutschen Fließtext & integriert die semantischen Infos als Tooltipp. Es ist modular um weitere TEI-XML-Daten in gleicher Annotation erweiterbar o. um neue ontologische Daten im XML-Format.

Jonas, Frederick & Jonathan entwickelten beim #Hackathon ein KI-Tool, das Texte analysiert, taggt & statistisch auswertet – ob als TXT-Datei, Screenshot oder Copy-Paste. Modulares Design, ausbaufähig & offen für neue Features – ein smarter Helfer für Linguistik & Lehre. #ComputationalLinguistics

Zwischen Zögerlichkeit vor Ersatz und starkem Optimismus diskutierten Stefan & Nicole beim #Hackathon über die KI Hochschulverordnung & des EU AI Acts. Überlegungen zu Anwendungen mit beratender Funktion wurden begonnen. CAEDHETs Ziel: Verantwortung verstehen, Gesetze erklären, Zukunft mitgestalten.

Today is the day!
The hackathon organized by the CAEDHET research group brings together creative minds to collaborate – interdisciplinarily and critically – on current and future projects. Results to follow!

#Hackathon #CAEDHET #DigitalHumanities

Today is the day!
The hackathon organized by the CAEDHET research group brings together creative minds to collaborate – interdisciplinarily and critically – on current and future projects. Results to follow!

#Hackathon #CAEDHET #DigitalHumanities

Heute ist es soweit!
Der Hackathon von der Forschungsgruppe CAEDHET bringt heute kreative Köpfe zusammen um gemeinsam - interdisziplinär und kritisch - an aktuellen und zukünftigen Projekten zu arbeiten. Ergebnisse folgen!

#Hackathon #CAEDHET #DigitalHumanities

Hinsichtlich unserer neuen Arbeitsgruppe CAEDHET haben wir begonnen, einige aktuelle Projekte vorzustellen: ALMA, ASCVIT, FACTS und GAMMA.
Diese, sowie alle kommenden Projekte von CAEDHET, stellen wir auf unserer Website vor:

www.uni-heidelberg.de/de/forschung...

Regarding our new working group CAEDHET, we have started to present some current projects: ALMA, ASCVIT, FACTS and GAMMA.
We present these, as well as all upcoming CAEDHET projects, on our website:

www.uni-heidelberg.de/en/research/...

Regarding our new working group CAEDHET, we have started to present some current projects: ALMA, ASCVIT, FACTS and GAMMA.
We present these, as well as all upcoming CAEDHET projects, on our website:

www.uni-heidelberg.de/en/research/...