16 July 2025
Science City Bahrenfeld
Europe/Berlin timezone

Language Models in Humanities

Not scheduled
20m
AER Atrium (Science City Bahrenfeld)

AER Atrium

Science City Bahrenfeld

Albert-Einstein-Ring 8-10 22761 Hamburg

Speakers

Thomas Asselborn (Universität Hamburg) Florian Marwitz (Universität Hamburg) Sylvia Melzer (Universität Hamburg)

Description

Research groups in the humanities generate a substantial number of publications, contributing to an ever-expanding body of scholarly work. When a scholar is interested in the topics covered or has specific questions about (subsets of) publications, they must overcome the big number of publications to read. We demonstrate the use of language models in the humanities by showcasing two applications: First, the usage of Latent Dirichlet Allocation for identification of topics with minimal effort. Second, a new chatbot ChatHA for answering questions about documents. ChatHA also provides citations which excerpts from documents it uses. On the technical side, ChatHA is the extension of pretrained language models with a set of documents using RAG. Citations are generated by postprocessing the answer.

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Authors

Thomas Asselborn (Universität Hamburg) Magnus Bender (Roskilde Universität) Florian Marwitz (Universität Hamburg) Sylvia Melzer (Universität Hamburg) Ralf Möller (Universität Hamburg)

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