{"id":975,"date":"2025-11-27T00:51:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T23:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/llist\/?post_type=tribe_events&p=975"},"modified":"2026-07-03T11:33:04","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T09:33:04","slug":"workshop-on-computational-methods-in-the-humanities-2026-comhum-2026","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/llist\/en\/event\/workshop-on-computational-methods-in-the-humanities-2026-comhum-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Workshop on Computational Methods in the Humanities 2026 (COMHUM 2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The third edition of the COMHUM workshop is taking place on 9 and 10 September 2026 at the University of Lausanne (UNIL)<\/h3>\n

How to come to the conference.<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The workshop will take place in room\u00a0 275 of the Internef building<\/a>. Please take the metro M1 and leave at station UNIL-CHAMBERONNE<\/a>. Then it will be a 4-5 minutes walk. Usually, you get a public transport pass<\/a> at your hotel reception. If not, you can buy tickets at the metro station or at cff.ch<\/a> (there is a very useful app too<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Program<\/h3>\n

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9 September<\/th>COMPUTATIONAL GAME STUDIES TRACK<\/th><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
<\/td>Computational Game Studies - Session 1<\/td>Data Analysis<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9h15<\/td>OPENING<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9h30<\/td>Johan Cuda<\/td>Toward a Humanities-Oriented Methodology for Topic Modeling<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10h<\/td>C\u00f4me Parrinello<\/td>Video Games as Literary Art : The Role of the Protagonist in Narrative Games, A narrative and stylistic study.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10h30<\/td>Coffee break<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>KEYNOTE<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11h<\/td>Audrey Moutat<\/a><\/td>From Design to Immersion: Spatial Dynamics in Digital Environments<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12h<\/td>LUNCH<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Computational Game Studies - Session 2<\/td>AI tools<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
13h30<\/td>Guillaume Guex<\/td>Refining the Computational Analysis of Interactive Fiction: A Hybrid Framework using Bag-of-Paths Formalism and LLMs<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
14h<\/td>Martin Moritz and Peltonen Jaakko<\/td>Intelligence Artificielle et Jeux Vid\u00e9o<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
14h30<\/td>Jari Lindroos, Tanja V\u00e4lisalo, Raine Koskimaa and Tero Kerttula<\/td>Towards Real-Time Analysis of Digital Game Reception<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15h<\/td>COFFEE BREAK<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Computational Game Studies - Session 3<\/td>Case Studies<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15h30<\/td>Harshit Kargeti<\/td>Implementing and Analyzing Settlers of Catan as a Digital Artifact: Computational Recreation and Procedural System Analysis<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
16h<\/td>John Bessai<\/td>Practicing Civic Adjudication: A MacIntyrean Model of Ethics in a Parameterized Game-Engine Micro-Prototype<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
16h30<\/td>Maxime Kremer<\/a><\/td>Video Games as Prosopographical Networks and Geographic Information Systems for Early Medieval History: Crusader Kings III and the Digital Historian<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
17h<\/td>End of day 1<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
19h<\/td>Restaurant (optional)<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t
10 September<\/th>GLOBAL TRACK<\/th><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
<\/td>Global track \u2013 Session 1<\/td>Cultural heritage<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8h30<\/td>Tim Eipert and Fabian C. Moss<\/td>Towards a Generative Model of Medieval Chant<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9h<\/td>Luca Biccheri, Roberta Padlina and Frederic Goubier<\/td>Towards a Computational Ontology of Fallacies<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9h30<\/td>R\u00e9mi Petitpierre<\/a><\/td>Computational Map Semiotics: Detecting and Encoding Cartographic Signs in Large Heterogeneous Historical Corpora<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10h<\/td>Venla Poso, Ida Toivanen and Jari Lindroos<\/td>The Longevity and Sustainability of AI in Research Infrastructure and Cultural Heritage<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10h30<\/td>COFFEE BREAK<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Global track \u2013 Session 2<\/td>Digitalization<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11h<\/td>Florian Wachter, Andreas Ederer, Gregor Diez, Anton Skrinjar and Stephan Schneider<\/a><\/td>A Multimodal Computational Imaging Pipeline for the Recovery of Weathered and Erased Stone Inscriptions<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11h30<\/td>Adriano Ettari and Guido Russo<\/td>MAGIC: A Computational Framework for Large-Scale Manuscript Digitization, Preservation, and Semantic Enrichment<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12h<\/td>Ambra Torregrossa<\/td>In Ariosto\u2019s Creative Workshop: From Ink to the Digital Genetic Edition of the Autograph Fragments of the Orlando furioso as a Virtual Research Environment<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12h30<\/td>LUNCH<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Global track \u2013 Session 3<\/td>Methods<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
14h<\/td>Fran\u00e7ois Bavaud<\/td>On the geometry of word embeddings, with applications to lexical variety<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
14h30<\/td>Maitrayee Mukherjee<\/td>Computing the Wayward: A Participatory Computational Method for Reading Complex Archives<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15h<\/td>Aris Xanthos et Colin Luginb\u00fchl<\/td>Executable claims for graph-based text analysis: from exploration to auditability<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15h30<\/td>COFFEE BREAK<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Global track \u2013 Session 4<\/td>Textual analysis<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
16h<\/td>Simon Gabay et Jean-Luc Falcone<\/td>Computing Flaubert\u2019s gueuloir: a phonetic-driven stylometric analysis<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
16h30<\/td>Regina Guzaerova and Elena Hamidy<\/td>Negotiating Ethics and Aesthetics: Linguistic and Literary Perspectives on the Facebook Corpus of Russian-Language Authors<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
17h<\/td>Jan Jokisch et Antonio Rojas Castro<\/td>Evaluating Network Analysis in Drama: A Gold-Standard Assessment of Scenic Co-Presence<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
17h30<\/td>CLOSING<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n

Special track: computation and video games<\/b><\/h3>\n

Without doubt, the digital has become an integral part of our everyday experience, whether it is due to our use of digital devices, the ever-increasing amounts of data collected and processed by said devices, or the prevalence of LLMs and AI agents in most websites or softwares. Academia and the humanities have never been more digital, which pushes digital humanities to frontiers beyond computational approaches to humanities or the application of humanities research methods to the digital. In this context, the COMHUM workshop series positions itself as an international forum primarily devoted to the following research questions:<\/p>\n

(1) which formal or computational approaches can help address the particular challenges posed by the growing presence of the digital in humanities, e.g., digital artifacts, software, LLMs, and computer-generated data? In these cases and beyond,<\/p>\n

(2) which methods are most appropriate to tackle the challenges posed by humanities research and how can they be applied to concrete research questions?<\/p>\n

The first day is devoted to the specific topic of computation and video games.<\/strong> This topic explores computational methods for analyzing video games as well as humanities approaches to computation in video games. It has a number of ramifications in a variety of disciplines, including software studies, critical code studies, literary analysis, digital humanities, and game studies. It is of particular interest for a number of research initiatives at UNIL and in neighboring institutions. COMHUM 2026 will be a perfect opportunity to bring together researchers from various communities studying video games using computational approaches or studying computation in video games, to review the state of the art in this domain and to outline its future developments.<\/p>\n

In the spirit of the previous editions of the COMHUM workshop, the second day was open to submissions on any topic pertaining to theoretical or applied research on computational methods for humanities research broadly conceived.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The official language of the workshop is English.<\/p>\n

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Invited Speaker<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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