Culture & Computation Lab

We know it’s early, but save the dates for the upcoming CuCo Lab Conversations! We have some fantastic speakers lined up for you, including @dirkhovy.bsky.social, Martina Heßler and @bildoperationen.bsky.social. And then there’s this guy: @questoph.bsky.social.

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Am Donnerstag waren wir im Institut für DaF an der @lmumuenchen.bsky.social zu Gast, aus Anlass einer studentischen (!) Tagung zu Sprachlandschaften. @questoph.bsky.social durfte den Eröffnungsvortrag halten und danach tolle Projekte mit den Studis diskutieren, viele davon mit Lingscape umgesetzt.

This week, Lingscape is visiting @idsmannheim.bsky.social, where we are exchanging ideas with a growing community of language researchers who are interested in participatory approaches. In this context, @questoph.bsky.social talks about our experiences from already nine years with Lingscape.

Don’t forget to join for our last talk of the semester, Friday 6/6 at 10:15 CEST! The Webex link is available in the talk info on our website!

In the last edition of our talk series for this semester, @seyfert.bsky.social from Kiel will discuss the implications of technology on social relations:

A Theory of Algorithmic Sociality (TAS).

Join us on-site or online:

Friday, 6 June, 10:15 CEST.

Info: cucolab.uni.lu/blog/convers...

Conspiracy as Genre From anti-vaccine politics to aliens, this volume explores diverse critical approaches to conspiracy narratives representing them as playful stories with seriou…

Happy to announce our upcoming book

Conspiracy as Genre. Narrative, Power, and Circulation

Edited by
@cat-tebaldi.bsky.social,
@aplum.bsky.social &
@questoph.bsky.social,

it examines conspiracy in relation to social power and authority, moving beyond either disinformation or revelation.

Cultural Data Science This book introduces basic concepts in data science, drawing from contextual examples in art history, visual computing, cloud computing, and microservices

Thrilled to share that my book Cultural Data Science – An Introduction to R is finally out! A journey through digital methods, visual culture & data analysis—made for everyone exploring the intersection of humanities and code.

#DigitalHumanities #RStats

link.springer.com/book/9783031...

Now available open access:
my latest article exploring how blockchains and NFTs challenge legal notions of identity. www.universi.uni-siegen.de/katalog/zeit... (p. 89-102)

The Humanities and the Rise of AI | Melusina Press [](https://www.melusinapress.lu/projects/project-collection/eoh?collectionOrder=eoh) <br/...

What started as a workshop in the Luxembourg Pavillon at the World Expo in Dubai has now finally taken form as an open access volume:

„The Humanities and the Rise of AI. Implications of Cultural and Societal Engineering“

More papers to follow in the next weeks and months.

Join us for the talk by Jannis Androutsopoulos on Friday morning via Webex.

Watch out for the talk by Jannis Androutsopoulos in our talk series. Next Friday, Jannis will be

„Exploring the online-offline nexus: meaning-making at the interfaces of physical and virtual (inter)action.“

Join us on 25 April, 10.15am (UTC+2), via this link:

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Speaking of news: When working with the app or accessing the website, you might notice some technical hiccups in the coming weeks.

We’re currently updating the technical base and moving stuff around on servers. We promise to be as quick as possible and avoid downtime as much as possible.

Look at that! Lingscape has arrived on Bluesky. It was about time…

We will use this channel mainly for news about the project but will also try and showcase some of the awesome projects hosted on our platform. And post images occasionally.

#linguistics #linguisticlandscape #citizenscience

Looking for a new challenge, e.g., teaching & researching English in a multilingual society & workplace? With a digital twist?

Then come & work with us at the Department of Humanities in Luxembourg! We’re looking for a new colleague in English linguistics (Assoc or Full Prof)!

#jobs #linguistics

If you would like to know the relationship between conspiracy and bad gender ideologies please stay tuned for @cucolab.bsky.social s edited volume on just this nonsense

The first speaker this semester is Rebekah Larsen from Copenhagen. She discusses the role of conservative rural talk radio in the US media landscape, including methodological challenges in ethnographic fieldwork.

Info & a Webex link can be found here: cucolab.uni.lu/blog/convers...

We are happy to announce the program of our talk series „CuCo Lab Conversations“ for the upcoming semester.

All info can be found (and will be updated) here:

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As always, talks are also streamed on Webex, so feel free to stop by.

Text Generation Models for Luxembourgish with Limited Data: A Balanced Multilingual Strategy This paper addresses the challenges in developing language models for less-represented languages, with a focus on Luxembourgish. Despite its active development, Luxembourgish faces a digital data scar...

Alistair Plum will discuss generative models for Luxembourgish using a multilingual approach in his paper

„Text Generation Models for Luxembourgish with Limited Data: A Balanced Multilingual Strategy“

w/ @tharindudr.bsky.social & @questoph.bsky.social

Neural Text Normalization for Luxembourgish using Real-Life Variation Data Orthographic variation is very common in Luxembourgish texts due to the absence of a fully-fledged standard variety. Additionally, developing NLP tools for Luxembourgish is a difficult task given the ...

Anne-Marie Lutgen will present her first PhD paper on

„Neural Text Normalization for Luxembourgish using Real-Life Variation Data“

that introduces a new approach to working with synthetic data in text normalization tasks.

w/ Alistair Plum, @questoph.bsky.social & Barbara Plank

If you’re at #Coling25, make sure to check our two papers at the #VarDial25 workshop on Sunday.

They represent some of the latest advancements in NLP for Luxembourgish.

Next week we will host the last talk of the year in our series “CuCo Lab Conversations”. Our very own Ruth Reicher will discuss pre-modern literary stagings of “extreme bodies” and their relation to current narratives of influencers.

[Talk in German]

Info:
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LuxBank: The First Universal Dependency Treebank for Luxembourgish The Universal Dependencies (UD) project has significantly expanded linguistic coverage across 161 languages, yet Luxembourgish, a West Germanic language spoken by approximately 400,000 people, has rem...

This week at TLT24 in Hamburg, we’re gonna present a paper on LuxBank, the first UD treebank for Luxembourgish.

We, that is: Alistair Plum, Caroline Döhmer, Emilia Milano, Anne-Marie Lutgen and Christoph Purschke

Preprint via arXiv

arxiv.org/abs/2411.04813

Next Friday (22 November), @leoniedejonge.bsky.social from Groningen will visit the CuCo Lab to discuss the evolution of far right ideologies in the 21st century. We’re thrilled to host her talk.

You can join on site or online (via Webex):

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Next month we will host the workshop "Mensch Metapher Maschine", organized by @questoph.bsky.social, Ralf Becker and Simon Kasper. The main topic of the workshop is the complex relationship between humans and technology, with a special focus on the role of language.

Program: t1p.de/mmm2024

Here’s the poster version of the program.

Next Friday, we will host the first speaker for this semester, @elinorcarmi.bsky.social, who will discuss strategies for citizens to resist in the datafied society. You can join online via WebEx using the link on the info page.

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We’re getting ready for the new semester. There’s a couple of interesting events on the menu.

As part of our regular talk series „CuCo Lab Conversations“, this fall, we have a stellar lineup. You can find the program and talk details on our website.

All talks will also be streamed via WebEx.