The Nineteenth Annual Conference of the European Society for Textual Scholarship (ESTS 2024)
October 2, 2024 - October 4, 2024
Although the deep learning-based AI revolution in human language processing began at least a decade ago, the emergence of generative AI through ChatGPT has far exceeded even experts’ expectations. Will AI make textual scholarship and our editing practices smarter? Will we be able to produce intelligent editions, in print or online, without the “help” of computers in the third decade of the 21st century?
In this context, it is worth considering the opportunities and threats of the computer as a cultural artefact in the production of scholarly editions, or in textual scholarship in general, from the Index Thomisticus (Roberto Busa) to Winchester Philology (Thorsten Ries) and the technology of the Semantic Web. The conference also addresses the role of corpora and corpus linguistic methods in the humanities, such as computer-based analysis and annotation of poetic texts.
ORGANISERS
The Organising Committee
ESTS – The European Society for Textual Scholarship
ELTE-DH –Department of Digital Humanities, Eötvös Loránd University
ELTE-MIKTI – Institute of Hungarian Literature and Cultural Studies, Eötvös Loránd University
ELTE-DiAGram – Research Group in Stylistics
