CHC is behind almost one sixth of the 29 accepted papers that will be presented at the CHR2022 conference. Moreover, approximately 80% of the total number of conference papers submitted by participants from Danish universities have been developed in UCloud, which is a clear indication of DeiC Interactive HPC's impact on humanities research. 

CHR2022 is organized by The Computational Humanities Research community as a means to gather fellow researchers within the relatively new field of computational humanities which, despite rapid growth within recent years, has seen rather few research venues centered specifically on applications of machine learning and mathematical modeling in the humanities. The aim of the annually returning conference is thus to create a specialized forum for researchers of computational humanities to share knowledge and experiences in order to support and develop the field further. 

The first edition of CHR was a workshop, which had to take place online, due to the global pandemic of the corona virus disease. One year later, COVID-19 once again forced CHR into a virtual mode of meeting. In spring 2022, during a visit by some of the organizers of the first editions of CHR to Aarhus, the idea arose to organize a third iteration of CHR – this time as a physical event. Kristoffer Nielbo (head of CHC) and Alie Lassche (PhD candidate at Leiden University but visiting researcher at CHC at that time) were appointed as the programme chairs for CHR2022. This year’s edition will take place at the University of Antwerp (Belgium), though remote participation will also be possible.  

“With this 2022 edition of CHR, we consolidate our community of humanities researchers with an orientation toward formal and computational approaches. For some, this will be their very first physical encounter with each other, sometimes even after already having co-authored publications with one another. I cannot wait for Antwerp being the decorum of what will undoubtedly be an inspiring intellectual exchange.” 

- Alie Lassche

Besides Alie, Developer Jan Kostkan, Junior Developer Sara Møller Østergaard, Post.doc. Yuri Bizzoni, Associate Professor and head of CHC Kristoffer Nielbo, research assistant at Fabula-NET, Pascale Herold, and PhD candidate Philip Stenmann Baun will be representing CHC physically at the conference. However, the authors behind the conference papers from CHC also count Ph.D. student Ida Marie S. Lassen, research assistant Telma Peura, and Professor Mads Rosendahl Thomsen from Fabula-NET as well as Associate Professor Rebekah Baglini and Stine Nyhus Larsen. Some of them will be attending the conference remotely.  

At the CHR2022 conference, the CHC papers will be included in three individual conference sessions named Literature, Social Media, and Historical Dynamics, respectively, and include the following titles: 

Literature (I & II): 

Correlations between GoodReads Appreciation and the Sentiment Arc Fractality of the Grimm brothers' Fairy Tales 
Yuri Bizzoni, Mads Rosendahl Thomsen, Ida Marie S. Lassen and Kristoffer Nielbo 

Reviewer Preferences and Gender Disparities in Aesthetic Judgments 
Ida Marie S. Lassen, Yuri Bizzoni, Telma Peura, Mads Rosendahl Thomsen and Kristoffer Nielbo 

Social Media: 

Emodynamics: Detecting and Characterizing Pandemic Sentiment Change Points on Danish Twitter 
Rebekah Baglini, Sara Møller Østergaard, Stine Nyhus Larsen and Kristoffer Nielbo 

Right-wing Mnemonics
Phillip Stenmann Baun and Kristoffer Nielbo 

Historical Dynamics: 

Chronicling Crises: Event Detection in Early Modern Chronicles from the Low Countries 
Alie Lassche, Jan Kostkan and Kristoffer Nielbo 

All paper abstracts are available via the official CHR2022 website