Workshop on AI & DH

In collaboration with the Groupe de Recherche sur les Éditions critiques en contexte Numérique, the CRIHN is hosting the first part of a workshop on AI & DH on 27-28 November 2024 at the Université de Montréal. (The second part will take place at Concordia University on 15-16 January 2025.) The first morning of the event is organized in collaboration with the conference « Chatting in Academia? The Impact of Large Language Models and Conversational Agents on Literary Studies » of the Consortium ARIANE.

Program

Wednesday 27 November 2024

  • 8:30am-9am — Welcome coffee
  • 9am-9.15am — Opening remarks
  • 9.15am-10.15am — Plenary talk by Geoffrey Rockwell (University of Alberta), « How Safe is AI Safety? »
  • 10.15am-10.45am — Paper #1: Ludovic Moncla (Institut National des Sciences Appliquées, Lyon), « Evaluation of Large Language Models for Named Entity Recognition »
  • 10.45am-11.15am — Paper #2: Marcello Vitali-Rosati (Université de Montréal), « Scientific rationality, human fuzziness, and trendy corporate logics »
  • 11.15am-11.45am — Discussion
  • 12pm-1.30pm — Lunch
  • 1.30pm-2.15pm — Paper #3: Ollivier Dyens (McGill University), « The Dissolution of Boundaries: A Human-Machine Ontology »
  • 2.15pm-3pm — Paper #4: Stéphane Pouyllau (HN-Lab, CNRS), « From machine learning to RAG, 14 years of AI evolution in the isidore.science search engine »
  • 3pm-3.30pm — Coffee break
  • 3.30pm-4.15pm — Paper #5 Ayla Rigouts Terryn (Université de Montréal), « The multilingualism of Large Language Models »

Thursday 28 November 2024

  • 9.30am-10am — Welcome coffee
  • 10am-10.45am — Paper #6: Ian Arawjo (Université de Montréal), « Lessons from ChainForge: A Visual Toolkit for Prompt Engineering and LLM Hypothesis Testing »
  • 10.45am-11.30am — Paper #7: Fabio Ciotti (Università di Roma Tor Vergata), « Generative AI and Digital Humanities: Rethinking Methodologies and Epistemologies »
  • 11.30am-12.15pm — Paper #8: Juan Luis Gastaldi (ETH Zurich), « Sous les distributions, la structure! Unearthing structural(ist) features from linguistic distributions »
  • 12.15pm-1.30pm — Lunch
  • 1.30pm-2.15pm — Paper #9: Tiberio Uricchio (University of Pisa), « Towards AI Hermeneutics: Leveraging Visual Intelligence »
  • 2.15pm-3pm — Paper#10: Damien Masson (Université de Montréal), «  Interacting with AI beyond text »
  • 3pm-3.15pm — Coffee break
  • 3.15pm-4.45pm — Round-table led by Marcello Vitali-Rosati 

The event will also be streamed live (advance registration required for Wednesday 27 November and then for Thursday 28 November).