summer school:
8 -11 Sept 2025
Large Language Models for Digital Humanities Research
summer school
The summer school „Large Language Models for Digital Humanities Research“ addresses students and doctoral candidates from Linguistics and Digital Humanities, as well as other fields that are involved with the application of LLMs for DH Research.
After an introductory workshop on LLMs and Prompt Engineering (Day 1+2), given by Christopher Pollin (Digital Humanities Craft OG), you take part in a more specialized workshop track (Day 3+4).
Participants can choose between four alternative workshop tracks:
1) „Large Language Models for Qualitative Data Analysis“, given by Sarah Oberbichler (Leibniz Institute of European History, Mainz)
2) „Deep Learning in the Computational Literary Studies“, given by Janis Pagel (University of Cologne)
3) „LLM-Supported Modeling, Operationalization, and Exploration for Digital Editions“, given by Christopher Pollin (Digital Humanities Craft OG)
4) “Using LLMs for Psycholinguistic Research”, given by Hanna Woloszyn, Job Schepens and Benjamin Gagl (University of Cologne)
Abstracts for each workshop track will follow soon!
Summer School Schedule
8-11 September 2025
Starting MON 08.09. at noon
Ending THU 11.09. at 4pm
A detailed schedule will follow soon!
Venue:
Philosophikum, University of Cologne
Universitätsstraße 41, 50931 Köln.
REGISTRATION
The school is mainly aimed at students and doctoral candidates from linguistics and digital humanities, but participants from other fields who are interested in machine learning are welcome to apply as well. Basic knowledge of Python is presumed.
How to apply:
Please send an email to ml-school@uni-koeln.de with the following information:
(a) Your full name
(b) Your current affiliation
(c) Desired Workshop Track (1)-(4) (please provide your first choice + 1 alternative)
(d) Highest Degree you are holding
(e) Your current academic position and field
(f) Python knowledge: 1-2 sentences describing a course or project where you used python
(g) Motivation: 2-3 sentences why you would like to participate in the summer school and your chosen workshop track
Application Deadline: 1. June 2025
Organization
The school is funded by the University of Cologne’s Competence Area III
(CA3: Quantitative Modeling of Complex Systems) and organized in cooperation with the Center for Data and Simulation Science (CDS), the Department for Digital Humanities (IDH), the Cologne Center for eHumanities (CCeH), and the Data Center for the Humanities (DCH).
