Name: The 5th International Conference on Natural Language Processing for Digital Humanities
Start: 2025-05-03
End: 2025-05-04
Location: Albuquerque

The 5th International Conference on Natural Language Processing for Digital Humanities (NLP4DH 2025) will be organized together with NAACL 2025. The proceedings of the conference will be published in the ACL anthology. The conference will take place in Albuquerque, USA on May 3–4, 2025.

Proceedings

Lightning Proceedings

Previous NLP4DH

Main Track

The focus of the conference is on applying natural language processing techniques to digital humanities research. The topics can be anything of digital humanities interest with a natural language processing or generation aspect.

A list of suitable topics includes but is not limited to:

Text analysis and processing related to humanities using computational methods
Thorough error analysis of an NLP system using (digital) humanities methods
Dataset creation and curation for NLP (e.g. digitization, digitalization, datafication, and data preservation).
Research on cultural heritage collections such as national archives and libraries using NLP
NLP for error detection, correction, normalization and denoising data
Generation and analysis of literary works such as poetry and novels
Analysis and detection of text genres

Special Track: Understanding LLMs through humanities

As we established in the previous edition of NLP4DH, humanities research has a new role in interpreting and explaining the behavior of LLMs. Reporting numerical results on some benchmarks is not quite enough, we need humanities research to better understand LLMs. This line of research is emerging and we know that it may take several shapes and forms. Here is some list of examples of what this could mean.

Using theories to analyze or qualitatively evaluate LLMs
Using insights from humanities to improve LLMs
Using theories to probe LLMs
Examining LLMs through linguistic typology and variation
The influence of literary theories on understanding LLM-generated text
Philosophical inquiries into the “understanding” of language in LLMs
Analyzing LLM responses using narratology frameworks
Cognitive models of human language acquisition vs. LLM training paradigms

Schedule - Room: Taos

May 3rd

Time	Event
9:00-9:10	Opening words
9:10-10:30	Session 1 (Chairs: Sil Hamilton)
9:10-9:30	Mapping Hymns and Organizing Concepts in the Rigveda: Quantitatively Connecting the Vedic Suktas
9:30-9:50	Historical Ink: Exploring Large Language Models for Irony Detection in 19th-Century Spanish
9:50-10:10	Modern Models, Medieval Texts: A POS Tagging Study of Old Occitan
10:10-10:30	Lightning talks
10:30-11:00	Coffee break
11:00-12:20	Session 2 (Chair: Yuri Bizzoni)
11:00-11:20	Transferring Extreme Subword Style Using Ngram Model-Based Logit Scaling
11:20-11:40	Advances and Challenges in the Automatic Identification of Indirect Quotations in Scholarly Texts and Literary Works
11:40-12:00	PsyTEx: A Knowledge-Guided Approach to Refining Text for Psychological Analysis
12:00-12:20	The evolution of relative clauses in the IcePaHC treebank
12:20-14:00	Lunch break
14:00-15:20	Session 3 (Chair: Avanti Bhandarkar)
14:00-14:20	A Bit of This, a Bit of That: Building a Genre and Topic Annotated Dataset of Historical Newspaper Articles with Soft Labels and Confidence Scores
14:20-14:40	Song Lyrics Adaptations: Computational Interpretation of the Pentathlon Principle
14:40-15:00	Masks and Mimicry: Strategic Obfuscation and Impersonation Attacks on Authorship Verification
15:00-15:20	Augmented Close Reading for Classical Latin using BERT for Intertextual Exploration
15:20-16:00	Coffee break
16:00-16:30	Poster session
	AI with Emotions: Exploring Emotional Expressions in Large Language Models RAG-Enhanced Neural Machine Translation of Ancient Egyptian Text: A Case Study of THOTH AI A City of Millions: Mapping Literary Social Networks At Scale The Literary Canons of Large-Language Models: An Exploration of the Frequency of Novel and Author Generations Across Gender, Race and Ethnicity, and Nationality Development of Old Irish Lexical Resources, and Two Universal Dependencies Treebanks for Diplomatically Edited Old Irish Text I only read it for the plot! Maturity Ratings Affect Fanfiction Style and Community Engagement

May 4th

Time	Event
9:00-9:30	Online Posters (Chair: Khalid Alnajjar)
	Testing Language Creativity of Large Language Models and Humans Analyzing Large Language Models' pastiche ability: a case study on a 20th century Romanian author On Psychology of AI – Does Primacy Effect Affect ChatGPT and Other LLMs? Analyzing register variation in web texts through automatic segmentation VLG-BERT: Towards Better Interpretability in LLMs through Visual and Linguistic Grounding Mining the Past: A Comparative Study of Classical and Neural Topic Models on Historical Newspaper Archives A data-driven investigation of euphemistic language: Comparing the usage of "slave" and "servant" in 19th century US newspapers Using Multimodal Models for Informative Classification of Ambiguous Tweets in Crisis Response Evaluating Large Language Models for Narrative Topic Labeling From Causal Parrots to Causal Prophets? Towards Sound Causal Reasoning with Large Language Models It's about What and How you say it: A Corpus with Stance and Sentiment Annotation for COVID-19 Vaccines Posts on X/Twitter by Brazilian Political Elites Insights into developing analytical categorization schemes: three problem types related to annotation agreement Team Conversational AI: Introducing Effervesce EduPo: Progress and Challenges of Automated Analysis and Generation of Czech Poetry Fearful Falcons and Angry Llamas: Emotion Category Annotations of Arguments by Humans and LLMs Moral reckoning: How reliable are dictionary-based methods for examining morality in text? AI Assistant for Socioeconomic Empowerment Using Federated Learning HateImgPrompts: Mitigating Generation of Images Spreading Hate Speech Assessing Crowdsourced Annotations with LLMs: Linguistic Certainty as a Proxy for Trustworthiness An evaluation of Named Entity Recognition tools for detecting person names in philosophical text MITRA-zh-eval: Using a Buddhist Chinese Language Evaluation Dataset to Assess Machine Translation and Evaluation Metrics Strategies for political-statement segmentation and labelling in unstructured text Poetry in RAGs: Modern Greek interwar poetry generation using RAG and contrastive training Advancing Sentiment Analysis in Tamil-English Code-Mixed Texts: Challenges and Transformer-Based Solutions Restructuring and visualising dialect dictionary data: Report on Erzya and Moksha materials A Comprehensive Evaluation of Cognitive Biases in LLMs A Comparative Analysis of Ethical and Safety Gaps in LLMs using Relative Danger Coefficient Threefold model for AI Readiness: A Case Study with Finnish Healthcare SMEs
9:30-10:30	NLP4DH business meeting
10:30-11:00	Coffee break
11:00-12:20	Session 4 (Chair: So Miyagawa)
11:00-11:20	Irony Detection in Hebrew Documents: A Novel Dataset and an Evaluation of Neural Classification Methods
11:20-11:40	Podcast Outcasts: Understanding Rumble's Podcast Dynamics
11:40-12:00	The AI Co-Ethnographer: How Far Can Automation Take Qualitative Research?
12:00-12:20	Effects of Complexity and Publicity in Reader Polarization
12:20-14:00	Lunch break
14:00-15:20	Session 5 (Chair: Mia Jacobsen)
14:00-14:20	Bootstrapping AI: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Assessing OCR Quality in English-Language Historical Documents
14:20-14:40	A Comparative Analysis of Word Segmentation, Part-of-Speech Tagging, and Named Entity Recognition for Historical Chinese Sources, 1900-1950
14:40-15:00	Beyond Cairo: Sa’idi Egyptian Arabic Literary Corpus Construction and Analysis
15:00-15:20	Language use of political parties over time: Stylistic Fronting in the Icelandic Gigaword Corpus
15:20-16:00	Coffee break

Paper submission

We solicit original and unpublished work related to digital humanities and natural language processing (NLP4DH). Short papers can be up to 4 pages in length and long papers up to 8 pages. Both submission formats can have an unlimited number of pages for references. All submissions must follow the ACL stylesheet (Overleaf template).

The submissions must be anonymous and they will be peer-reviewed by our program committee. The peer review is double blind.

Papers must be submitted using OpenReview by the submission deadline. At least one of the authors of an accepted paper must attend the event to present the paper. NAACL 2025 is in charge of collecting registration fees.

We also accept papers already reviewed in the ACL Rolling Review (ARR) that have not been committed to another venue. A paper that already has reviews through ARR may not be submitted for direct review to NLP4DH, but must use the ARR submission track and provide the URL to the OpenReview forum of the ARR submission (https://openreview.net/forum?id=XXXXXXXXXXX).

Accepted papers (short and long) will be published in the proceedings that will appear in the ACL Anthology. Accepted papers will also be given an additional page to address the reviewers’ comments. The length of a camera ready submission can then be 5 pages for a short paper and 9 for a long paper with an unlimited number of pages for references.

The authors of the accepted papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their paper to a special issue in the Journal of Data Mining & Digital Humanities.

Lightning talk submission

You may also contribute to the event by submitting a lightning talk. Lightning talks are submitted as 750-word abstracts using Google Forms. Lightning talks are suited for discussing ideas or presenting work in progress. The lightning proceedings will be published on Zenodo. NAACL 2025 is in charge of collecting registration fees.

Important dates

Direct paper submission (long and short): February 23, 2025
ARR commitment submission: February 23, 2025
Notification of acceptance: March 10, 2025
Camera ready deadline: March 23, 2025
Conference: May 3-4, 2025

All times are Anywhere on Earth (AoE).

If you have any questions, you can email mika.hamalainen@metropolia.fi

Organizers

Mika Hämäläinen Metropolia University of Applied Sciences

So Miyagawa The University of Tsukuba / National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (NINJAL)

Program committee

Hale Sirin, Johns Hopkins University

Thibault Clérice, INRIA Paris - Almanach

Noémi Ligeti-Nagy, Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics

Anna Dmitrieva, University of Helsinki

Frederik Arnold, Humboldt Universität Berlin

Dongqi Liu, Universität des Saarlandes

Won Ik Cho, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology

Konstantin Schulz, Humboldt Universität Berlin

Aynat Rubinstein, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Alejandro Sierra Múnera, Hasso Plattner Institute

Tim Fischer, University of Hamburg

Shu Okabe, Technische Universität München

Ronja Laarmann-Quante, Ruhr-Universtät Bochum

Yoshifumi Kawasaki, The University of Tokyo

Klara Venglarova, Universität Graz

Youngsook Song, Sionic AI

Joshua Wilbur, University of Tartu

Keito Inoshita, Shiga University

Kenichi Iwatsuki, Mirai Translate

Piper Vasicek, Brigham Young University

Mohammed Attia, Google

Laura Manrique-Gómez, Universidad de Los Andes

Craig Messner, Johns Hopkins University

Abhai Pratap Singh, Carnegie Mellon University

Balázs Indig, Eötvös Lorand University

Anton Eklund, Umeå University

Jouni Tuominen, University of Helsinki

Jesse Roberts, Tennessee Technological University

Nikita Neveditsin, St. Mary’s University

William Thorne, University of Sheffield

Lev Kharlashkin, Metropolia University of Applied Sciences

Jonne Sälevä, Brandeis University

Gleb Schmidt, Radboud University

Erik Henriksson, University of Turku

Amanda Myntti, University of Turku

Erkki Mervaala, University of Helsinki

Jay Park, Nanyang Technological University

Lama Alqazlan, University of Warwick

Pascale Moreira, Aarhus University

Enrique Manjavacas, Arevalo University of Leiden

Chahan Vidal-Gorène, École Nationale des Chartes

Lucija Krusic, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz

Lidia Pivovarova, University of Helsinki

Iana Atanassova, University of Franche-Comté

Sebastian Oliver Eck, University of Oxford

Shuo Zhang, Bose Corporation

Tomasz Walkowiak, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology

Elissa Nakajima, Wickham Waseda University

Nicolas Gutehrlé, University Bourgogne Franche-Comté

Hanna-Mari Kupari, University of Turku

Sourav Das, Indian Institute of Information Technology Kalyani

Antti Kanner, University of Helsinki

Julie-Anne Meaney, University of Edinburgh

Eetu Mäkelä, University of Helsinki

Fotini Koidaki, University of Crete

Yuzuki Tsukagoshi, University of Tokyo

Quanqi Du, Ghent University

Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira, Universidade de Coimbra

Maciej Kurzynski, Lingnan University

Xinmeng Hou, Columbia University

Sijia Ge, University of Colorado at Boulder

Mary Ogbuka Kenneth, Imperial College London

Mina Rajaei Moghadam, Northern Illinois University

Quan Duong, University of Helsinki

Mohamed Hannani, Universität Siegen

Pascale Feldkamp, Aarhus University

Eiaki Morooka, Metropolia University of Applied Sciences

Jahnavi Anilkumar Kachhia, Facebook

Rynaa Grover, Google

Milavkumar Sha, IEEE

Pratik Aher, Meta

Kunal Chhabaria, Walmart Connect

Elena Klyachko, HSE University

Yulia Badryzlova, Higher School of Economics

Mariia Fedorova, University of Oslo