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Upcoming events<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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22.04.2026<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Beyond Publish or Perish: Humanities Publishing in the Age of AI<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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The event focuses on publication strategies in the Age of AI. The event will take place in Jakobi 2-438, Tartu and Zoom at 18:00-19.30 (EEST). The lecturers include DigiTS Advisory Board member Artjoms \u0160ela<\/strong> (researcher at the\u00a0Versification Research Group<\/a>, Institute of Czech Literature, Czech Academy of Sciences), who will be speaking about challenging the traditional publication models and Alan Colin Arce<\/strong> and Faraz Forghan-Parast<\/strong> from the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab<\/a>, ran by DigiTS Advisory Board member Ray Siemens (University of Victoria, Canada). Arce and Forghan-Parast will be speaking on the topics of HSS Commons & Open Scholarship and AI.

Preliminary schedule:
<\/strong>18:00 Artjoms \u0160ela
18:30 Alan Colin Arce on
19:00 Faraz Forghan-Parast

Register here<\/strong><\/a>. Additional information will be added soon.
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06.-08.05.2026 <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Doctoral School on Network Analysis<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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The 3-day workshop<\/a> is aimed for PhD and MA students as well as academic staff from Estonian universities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The workshop introduces participants to the application of network theory in the humanities, with a particular emphasis on linguistics, as well as literary and cultural studies. The first day begins with an introductory lecture that offers a conceptual and methodological overview of the field, outlining key concepts, models, and research questions. This is followed by presentations from experts who demonstrate how network-based approaches can be applied to different kinds of data and research problems. The second and third day of the workshop are dedicated to the transfer of practical skills. Participants will learn essential techniques for data preparation, incl visualizing networks in ways that support exploration, interpretation, and scholarly communication.

The program also includes hands-on workshops on data preparation, data visualisation and using network metrics to describe networks and nodes.\u00a0Participants will also be introduced to the use of Gephi<\/em>, one of the most widely used network visualization tools, which offers a broad range of methods for highlighting important structural properties of networks.

Additional information, including timetable and registration link: www.digits.ut.ee\/network-analysis-workshop<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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11.05.2026<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

AI-teh seminar #1: Digital Humanities and AI: A Showcase<\/strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

For this monthly seminar series, we invite colleagues from the Humanities and Social Sciences to present how they have leveraged artificial intelligence in their own research methodology. The seminars are practically oriented demonstrations of instances of implementing AI at any stage of research, including data preparation, annotation, analysis or anything else. The seminars should serve as a platform not only to showcase uses of AI and get feedback on this, but also for participants to get inspiration for their own research and potentially as an opportunity to further collaboration.

In the first seminar, on May 11, Prof. Maciej Eder <\/strong>(Visiting Professor of Digital Humanities, UT Institute of Estonian and General Linguistics) will give a presentation titled Digital Humanities and AI: A Showcase<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The seminar will take place at Jakobi 2-438 and Zoom at 16:00-17:30 (EEST). Register here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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08.06.2026<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

AI-teh seminar #2: AI in Research: from Annotators to Assistants and Agents<\/strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

For this monthly seminar series, we invite colleagues from the Humanities and Social Sciences to present how they have leveraged artificial intelligence in their own research methodology. The seminars are practically oriented demonstrations of instances of implementing AI at any stage of research, including data preparation, annotation, analysis or anything else. The seminars should serve as a platform not only to showcase uses of AI and get feedback on this, but also for participants to get inspiration for their own research and potentially as an opportunity to further collaboration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the second seminar of the series on June 8, Andres Karjus<\/strong> (Associate Professor of\u00a0Computational Social\u00a0Science, UT Institute of Social Studies) will give a presentation titled AI in Research: from Annotators to Assistants and Agents<\/strong>.

The seminar will take place at \u00dclikooli 18-139 and Zoom at 16:00-17:30 (EEST). Register here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Past events<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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17.02.2026<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

DigiTS I Annual Progress Meeting<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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The event focused on the first year of the DigiTS project. Prof. Maciej Eder gave an overview of first year\u2019s activities, future plans and introduced the full time hired in the last months. All DigiTS researchers- Thiago Dumont Oliveira, Botond Szemes, Kristiina Vaik and the junior researchers Sofia Kriuchkova and Bhumika Bhattacharyya introduced their ongoing research projects. The aim of the meeting was to give an overview of our activities and first year progress to DigiTS team members and collaborators in partner institutions.

Slides of the research presenations can be viewed here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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19.01.2026<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

ETIS and the Estonian Research System<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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The event, intended for the DigiTS staff from associated Masters student to Professors leading the project, aimed to introduce the Estonian Research Information System, funding opportunities in Estonia, classification of publications and the importance of avoiding predatory journals. At the event, Kalmer Lauk, Analyst of Research and Development at the University of Tartu Grant Office, gave a thorough overview of the topics. Lauk\u2019s slides<\/strong> can be accessed here: Estonian Research Information System (ETIS)<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

University of Tartu employees can browse different funding opportunities on the Pivot-RP Database<\/a>, sing up for the funding opportunities newsletter<\/a> and contact the UT Grant Office<\/a> for more information, incl. for help with applications. <\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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19.11.2025<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Large Language Models and<\/strong> the Estonian Language: the State of the Art<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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Schedule:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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14:00-14:15 Prof. Maciej Eder<\/strong>, Visiting Professor of Digital Humanities (University of Tartu Institute of Estonian and General Linguistics)
Introduction of DigiTS + Welcome to the LLM Extravaganza!<\/a>
14:15-14:45 Eleri Aedmaa<\/strong>, Principal NLP Engineer (Estonian Language Institute),
Kristel Uiboaed<\/strong>, Head of Language Data Infrastructure (Estonian Language Institute)\u00a0
Advancing Language Resources: Infrastructure, Data Collection at Scale, and Benchmarking Strategy<\/a>
14:45-15:15 Assoc. Prof. Kairit Sirts<\/strong>, Associate Professor in Natural Language Processing (University of Tartu Institute of Computer Science)
Improving Estonian Language Capabilities in Open LLMs: Opportunities and Challenges\u00a0<\/a>
15:15-15:45 Prof. Mark Fi\u0161el<\/strong>, Professor of Natural Language Processing (University of Tartu Institute of Computer Science)
Large Models, Small Data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The event took place at Jakobi 2 & Zoom. The presentations were not recorded but you can access the slides above. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The event was co-organised by the Center of Digital Text Scholarship (DigiTS) and Language Data Research Infrastructure (KeTA).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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22.04.2025<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

DigiTS kick off event<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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The kick off event took place at the White Hall, University of Tartu Museum on April 22, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Presentations:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prof Liina Lindstr\u00f6m \u201cDigital Humanities at the University of Tartu\u201d<\/a>
Joshua Wilbur \u201cDigiTS- A Vision and a Plan\u201d<\/a>
Prof Maciej Eder \u201cComputational Stylistics: From Authorship Attribution to Assessing Language Change\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photos: Andres Tennus<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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DigiTS is a project funded by the European Union under grant agreement number 101186601<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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