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DHELI project launched to advance digital humanities in Latvia

2 Feb, 2023


With the aim to strengthen and develop the humanities in Latvia, a new project of the National Research Programme "Digital Humanities" called "Towards Development of Open and FAIR Digital Humanities Ecosystem in Latvia" or DHELI is being launched at the beginning of this year, with funding from the Science Council of Latvia. The project is coordinated by the Institute of Literature, Folklore and Arts of the University of Latvia with Dr. philol. Sanita Reinsone as its lead, and involves representatives from the National Library of Latvia, Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Latvia Institute of Latvian Language and Livonian Institute, Rēzekne Academy of Technologies, Riga Technical University.

Digital Humanities (DH) is an interdisciplinary area of research that blends fundamental and applied research methods to address questions within the humanities, social sciences, and arts. This field employs computational methods and uses digital resources and tools for data processing, analysis, and visualization. A prime example of the practical application and wide usage of DH is language technology, showcasing the significance of a well-established digital humanities infrastructure that not only supports researchers but also benefits a wider audience.

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The 10th International Conference "Human Language Technologies – the Baltic Perspective"

3 Oct, 2022

The 10th International Conference "Human Language Technologies – the Baltic Perspective" will take place on 6-7 October 2022 at the House of Nature (University of Latvia). 

The aim of the Baltic HLT is to provide a forum for the sharing of new ideas and recent advances in human language processing and to promote cooperation between the research communities of computer science and linguistics from the Baltic sea states and other countries.

During the past two decades, notable progress has been made in language technology development in all three Baltic countries. Although our languages are often called less resourced significant results have been demonstrated in speech technologies, machine translation, and natural language understanding.

The Conference programme includes twenty-three presentations representing a wide range of topics (speech processing, machine translation, application of deep learning techniques to different natural language processing tasks, creation of language resources, and others). Conference papers are published in the Baltic Journal of Modern Computing.

The first Baltic HLT conference in 2004 was the first event to focus on language technology development in the Baltic region. The success of this event inspired the organisation of biennial conferences in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. This year, the event is organized by the University of Latvia and the Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, UL in cooperation with SIA "Tilde".



Applying for the DHNB2023

28 Sep, 2022

The 7th Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Conference (DHNB2023) invites applications for the conference (abstract submission deadline 15 October 2022).

DHNB conferences focus on research, education and communication in the interdisciplinary field of digital humanities in the Nordic and Baltic regions and beyond. The DHNB2023 online conference explores the many facets of Sustainability in the Digital Humanities with a particular focus on its aspects of Environment, Community and Data.
DHNB2023 will be held online 8–10 March 2023.

More information about applying is here. 

Baltic Summer School of Digital Humanities

25 Jul, 2022
From 26 to 29 July the fourth Baltic Summer School of Digital Humanities will be held, this time with a theme "Essentials of News Data Mining". This year’s programme offers must-have introductory courses for digital humanists and digital social scientists who wish to come to grips with programming, collecting web data, and visualization. The course is co-taught by an international team of researchers and practitioners of digital humanities and digital social sciences.

Everyone will also have the opportunity to listen four open lectures on the Facebook and Youtube channels of National Library of Latvia.

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IMCS UL participates in the LREC 2022 conference

21 Jun, 2022, No comments

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LREC 2022 (13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation) is taking place in Marseille on June 20-25, 2022. LREC is the major event on Language Resources and Evaluation for Human Language Technologies. The Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Latvia, participates in the conference with three presentations.

On June 21, there will be a report on the Latvian Language Learner Corpus LaVA, which includes more than 1000 essays written by language learners studying at Latvian universities (corpus size – 190k words). By analyzing the mistakes of the language learners marked in the texts, a set of self-assessment exercise was created.

On June 22, we will present a poster about extending the Tezaurs.lv online dictionary with word sense synonyms and other semantic links, building a new lexico-semantic resource – Latvian WordNet.

Poster presentation on the Latvian National Corpora Collection (LNCC) - a diverse collection of corpora representing both written and spoken language is planned on Midsummer's Day, June 23. All corpora of LNCC are annotated with a uniform morpho-syntactic annotation scheme, enabling federated search and consistent linguistics analysis in more than 20 corpora (1.3B tokens).

Registration for the Baltic Summer School of Digital Humanities is open

9 Jun, 2022

Students, researchers, and GLAM professionals are welcome to enrol in the Baltic Summer School of Digital Humanities: Essentials of News Data Mining, which will be held on 26-29 July 2022 at the National Library of Latvia and Online.

The Baltic Summer School of Digital Humanities is an international intensive continuing education programme that provides the opportunity to researchers, educators, and students of humanities and social sciences, as well as archive, library and museum professionals to master various digital research skills, from data wrangling and analysis to visualisation.

In 2022, the school is organised for the fourth time and provides the opportunity to learn the basics of data analysis and visualisation with Python and R programming languages, master web harvesting skills, and learn more about network visualisation. One of the special focuses of this year is the analysis of news data and digitised newspapers in particular. The full programme can be viewed on the website Digital humanities in Latvia.

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Public spaces: new forms of digital discourse(?)

9 Jun, 2022

On 14 June, the seminar "Public spaces: new forms of digital discourse(?)" with Stuart Dunn will take place at the Institute of Literature, Folklore and Art of the University of Latvia, organized in cooperation with Riga Technical University.

The seminar will start at 10:00 and will last up to an hour and a half.
Place: The reading room of the Archives of Latvian Folklore, Floor 5, the National Library of Latvia (Mūkusalas street 3).

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Registration is open for the international conference ELAG 2022

29 Apr, 2022

On 8–10 June 2022, the National Library of Latvia (NLL) will host the international conference ELAG 2022, the leading conference in Europe on the use of information technology in libraries and other cultural heritage institutions.

"For more than forty years, the ELAG conference has provided an opportunity for professionals from cultural heritage institutions and IT industry to discuss the latest technologies and exchange best practices. No exception, internationally recognized industry professionals have confirmed their participation in this year’s conference in Riga," points out one of the conference’s organizers, Semantic Web Expert of the NLL Uldis Bojārs, PhD, inviting to register for the conference by 1 June.

The conference PROGRAMME, registration FORM and other helpful information are available on the ELAG 2022 website https://elag2022.lnb.lv/.

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Language and Culture in the Digital Age

23 Mar, 2022

On 30 March 2022, the 80th International Scientific Conference of the University of Latvia will host the session "Language and Culture in the Digital Age".
The session is dedicated to digital humanities and resource development, as well as to the role, use and research of language and culture in today's digital world.
Organisers: Institute of Literature, Folklore and Art, Livonian Institute of the University of Latvia, digitalhumanities.lv
Zoom:  https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82878803063?pwd=WkliSG5HUnNxRUw1dWZOSHQxc0Nhdz09

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Baltic HLT 2022. The 10th Conference. First Call for Papers

3 Mar, 2022, No comments

Human Language Technologies - the Baltic Perspective
Riga, Latvia
October 6-7, 2022

Conference aims

The aim of the Tenth Baltic Conference "Human Language Technologies - the Baltic Perspective" is to provide a forum for the sharing of new ideas and recent advances in human language processing and to promote cooperation between the research communities of computer science, linguistics and digital humanities from the Baltic states and the rest of the world.

The conference aims to bring together researchers, developers and users from the fields of natural language processing, computational linguistics and digital humanities to discuss state-of-the-art of human language technologies (HLT) in the Baltic states, to exchange information, to find new synergies and to promote initiatives for international cooperation.

The event is also important for gathering and consolidating ideas related to cooperation through EU Research and Innovation programmes.

Web Page.

First Call for Papers.

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New course "Introduction to Digital Humanities": applications until February 10

7 Feb, 2022

RTU ETHZF Master's study programme "Digital Humanities" offers the opportunity to participate in the course "Introduction to Digital Humanities", which will be taught by lecturers from Lineja University in Sweden (Ahmad Kamal, Patrick Gavin) in the spring semester. This course is now in its second year.
There are several places available! Students can get credits.

Application deadline 10 February at 12 noon.

Lectures start on 11 February, in English every Friday from 16.30 to 19.50, for 16 weeks. 
The work is intensive, but the knowledge gained fully outweighs it.

Participants:

  • apply by sending an email to dh@lulfmi.lv;
  • write a brief introduction about yourself (research, field of interest, study programme);
  • indicate whether a CP will be required.

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Language and Culture in the Digital Age

12 Jan, 2022

On 30 March 2022, the 80th International Scientific Conference of the University of Latvia will host the session "Language and Culture in the Digital Age".
The session is dedicated to digital humanities and resource development, as well as to the role, use and research of language and culture in today's digital world.
Organisers: Institute of Literature, Folklore and Art, Livonian Institute of the University of Latvia, digitalhumanities.lv
The Section is organised within the framework of the projects "Digital Resources for Humanities: Integration and Development" (VPP-IZM-DH-2020/1-0001) and "Multifunctional dictionary of Livonian" (VPP-LETONIKA-2021/2-0002).

Six guest lectures at RTU on digital humanities

20 Oct, 2021

From October 22 to December 10, six guest lectures will be given by Stuart Dunn, an experienced researcher and head of the Department of Digital Humanities at the King’s College London, as part of the the Riga Technical University (RTU) Master's programme "Digital Humanities".

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During the Open Access Week also learn about CLARIN-LV

19 Oct, 2021

From 25 to 31 October, International Open Access Week, which is  a global week of self-initiated events highlighting Open Access to research, is being celebrated around the world. This initiative is seen as an important catalyst for fruitful discussions, building new collaborations and strengthening and developing existing collaborations. This year, the UL Library and the OpenAIRE National Open Access Service (NAPD) welcome Latvian scientific communities to short online lectures.

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DHN2020 Post-Proceedings are now published!

17 May, 2021


The post-proceedings of the Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries 5th Conference (DHN2020) have now been published and are available here.

There are a total of 26 articles related to the topic of digital humanities, several of which are from Latvian institutions.

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On 2 June, The conference “Latvian Language Digital Resources and Tools for Education” will take place

13 May, 2021

CLARIN Latvia conference “Latvian Language Digital Resources and Tools for Education” will take place 2 June, 2021. Those interested will be able to listen to the readings on Zoom from 10:30 until 15:15.

To register, fill out the form https://ej.uz/ClarinLV2021.

The conference programme available here.

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Doctoral students invited to participate in the "Young Researchers' Day" on May 21, 2021.

14 Apr, 2021

Doctoral students of Humanities and Social Sciences Programmes studying at Latvian and foreign universities are invited to participate in the scientific conference Young Researchers' Day on May 21, 2021.

The conference is organized by the UL Institute of Literature, Folklore and Art in cooperation with the UL Faculty of Humanities with the support of the VPP project “Digital Resources of Humanities: Integration and Development” (Nr. VPP-IZM-DH-2020/1-0001).

Applications must be submitted electronically by April 20, 2021 – https://ej.uz/jauno-petnieku-diena.

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Digitalhumanities.lv now has its own YouTube channel

22 Mar, 2021
Digitalhumanities.lv has made a YouTube channel, where anyone can find videos on the topic of Digital Humanities in Latvia and also abroad. 

The channel is now officially live with the "Digital Humanities Series". The first episode is called "Computer analysis and visualization of text", where National Library of Latvia invites everyone to listen to the researcher Anda and programmer Valdis talk about computer text analysis.

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On March 10, a DH VPP panel, seminar and discussion took place

9 Mar, 2021


On Wednesday, March 10, 2021, from 14:00 to 16:30, the panel “Digital Resources for Humanities: Integration and Development” took place Online. There the participants of the National Research Programme (VPP) project presented their research.

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Demonstration seminar on the use of Digital Resources in the Humanities

24 Feb, 2021
On March 24, 2021, as part of the "DIGITAL WEEK 2021", a public seminar will be held on the ZOOM platform from 15:00 to 16:30, where researchers will demonstrate the use of digital resources in the humanities for various purposes. Representatives of the culture, tourism, education industry, interested parties and entrepreneurs of the region are invited to participate.

Registration: https://ej.uz/dh-resursi-novadiem


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    3 Oct, 2022
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  • IMCS UL participates in the LREC 2022 conference
    21 Jun, 2022
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