#icla2025 — Public Fediverse posts

Leaving #Seoul after an intense week!

The #ICLA2025 Congress was a blast. I especially enjoyed our "Digital Comparative Literature" sessions; great discussions! And the round table on responsible use of generative LLMs turned out really great as well, with a rather large audience.

The only less-than-great thing was that, unsurprisingly, I think I was basically the only one posting about the event here, with @icla_dcl / @rebsim. 😞

#DigitalHumanities #Comparative Literature #CLS

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Final "Digital Comparative Literature" session at #ICLA2025 and still going strong!

With @rebsim on digital social reading and Yunqian Wang on fan fiction.

Infos: https://www.conftool.pro/icla2025/index.php?page=browseSessions&cols=5&form_session=941&mode=table

#ComparativeLiterature #DigitalHumanities #CLS

Now at #ICLA2025, the special session "Celebrating Han Kang's Nobel Prize Award" in the Grand Ballroom.

Sadly, a missed opportunity for the international visibility of the session and its hero: talks appear to be in #Korean with just the first lines of the abstract in #English shown on the screen. That's quite reductive, I can only suppose. And I have read the abstracts already.

Infos: https://www.conftool.pro/icla2025/index.php?page=browseSessions&cols=5&form_session=1030&mode=table

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_Kang

#NobelPrize #HanKang #multilingualism

We're now in the middle of the special roundtable session on "Living With Machines: Comparative Literature, AI, and the Ethics of Digital Imagination".

I'll speak briefly about different kinds of AI (generative LLMs, non-generative LLMs, deep learning, machine learning); when to use which, and most important, when NOT to use LLMs; as well as some best practices for #transparency, #reproducibility and #sustainability in this context.

Details: https://www.conftool.pro/icla2025/index.php?page=browseSessions&cols=5&form_session=1031&mode=table

#ICLA2025 #Seoul #LLMs

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Second session of the day, with interesting papers!

One by Nicholas Wong from Hong Kong University on using word embeddings to detect semantic shifts of words related to "humanity" in a long-running journal, Chao Foon.

And one by Yue Wang on character networks in the famous Chinese novel "Dream of a Red Chamber / Mansion" using Antconc and further methods.

Session details here: https://www.conftool.pro/icla2025/index.php?page=browseSessions&cols=5&form_session=813&mode=table

#ICLA2025 #ComparativeLiterature #DigitalHumanities

Our "Digital Comparative Literature" track is in full swing today, with the first session about #Latour and #AI, about "Digital World Literature" and about the scholarly publishing landscape in the humanities, which urgently needs to catch up with the scholar-led, Diamond OA movement...

Details of the talks: https://www.conftool.pro/icla2025/index.php?page=browseSessions&cols=5&form_session=811&mode=table

#ICLA2025 @icla_dcl #DiamondOA #WorldLiterature

Very fitting for #ICLA2025, just came across this article on writing poetry between two languages:

"Moving between cities and tongues, poet Tim Tim Cheng wants to put Hong Kong’s writing on the map" in Hong Kong Free Pres.
https://hongkongfp.com/2025/07/27/writing-between-cities-poet-tim-tim-cheng-wants-to-put-hong-kong-on-the-map/ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/07/27/writing-between-cities-poet-tim-tim-cheng-wants-to-put-hong-kong-on-the-map/

Certainly a highlight of this #ICLA2025 conference coming up now: A keynote lecture by #Nobel Prize in Literature recipient Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio... unfortunately, due to health issues, via Zoom... and we're currently waiting for him to show up... let's see... there he his.

#LeClézio

Now up, Claude Patricia Tardif with a talk on "Un nouvel outil numérique de visualisation de textes pour la littéraire comparée". Very cool visualizations of textual structure! #ICLA2025

@artjomshl.bsky.social @rebsim

Now up, Claude Patricia Tardif with a talk on "Un nouvel outil numérique de visualisation de textes pour la littéraire comparée". Very cool visualizations of textual structure! #ICLA2025

My own talk, which is coming up / just happened, is on #Multilingual #Stylometry.

Based on our work for #CHR2024, we've moved on from the influence of language and translation on stylometric attribution accuracy to the influence of corpus composition. I'll be presenting both parts, but for the corpus composition issue, we are still at the stage of preliminary results.

With a special thanks to @artjomshl.bsky.social!

Slides: https://dhtrier.quarto.pub/icla/

@rebsim #ICLA2025

Now we're kicking off our "Digital Comparative Literature" track at #ICLA2025 with the first session. Three talks on social reading / Goodreads, on #multilingual #stylometry, and on visualisation of visual data.

See the session programme here: https://www.conftool.pro/icla2025/index.php?page=browseSessions&cols=5&form_session=868&mode=table

@rebsim

Very excited to be in #Seoul all week for the ICLA Congress 2025, the very large meeting of the International Comparative Literature Association! #ICLA2025

We'll have a multi-session track on "Digital Comparative Literature" organized by @icla_dcl and led by @rebsim, and a round table discussion led by Youngmin Kim.

The entire (huge!) programme of the conference can be found here: https://www.conftool.pro/icla2025/index.php?page=browseSessions&cols=5&mode=table

Conference website: https://icla2025-seoul.kr/en