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Change is Key! – Using LLMs in the Humanities and Social Sciences

Culture and languages
Science and Information Technology

Come and learn about computational modeling of linguistic, cultural and social change. Welcome to a full-day conference at Humanisten, organized by the research project Change is Key! We will present cutting-edge research on computational modeling of semantic change applied to historical linguistics, humanities, and social sciences, by researchers from Queen Mary University of London, KU Leuven, Institute for Analytical Sociology, Lund University, and Gothenburg University.

Conference
Date
12 Sep 2025
Time
10:30 - 16:30
Location
Room J330, Näckrossalen, Humanisten, Renströmsgatan 6
Organizer
Change is Key! and Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science
Register here

The conference begins at 10:30 with a welcome and coffee. 

The presentations, each about 20–30 minutes long, will be interspersed with breaks for fika (included) and lunch (not included).

The day will conclude around 16:30 with a mingle.

This page will be updated with a detailed schedule in August.

The conference is open to everyone, but we kindly ask you to register. Registration link

Schedule

10:30 – 11:00Welcome and set up
11:00 – 11:30Stefano De PascaleWhat cosine values can tell us about the diachronic emergence of synonymy
11:30 – 12:00Shafqat Mumtaz Virk & Emma SköldbergAutomatic Non-recorded Sense Detection for Swedish through Word Sense Induction with fine-tuned Word-in-Context models
12:00 – 12:30Miriam Hurtado BodellHow Meaning Divergence Evolvedin U.S. Congress: From Reorganization to Consolidation
12:30 – 13:30Lunch
13:30 – 14:00Francesco PeritiDefinition Generation for Word Meaning Modeling: Evaluation of Monolingual, Multilingual, and Cross- Lingual settings
14:00 – 14:30Pierluigi CassottiGenerative AI for Lost Meaningsand Unrepresented Voices
14:30 – 15:00Erik Kolterjahn-KjellbergLanguageChange Library
15:00 – 15:30Coffee break
15:30 – 16:00Naomi BaesDimensions of Semantic Change: Validation and Application of the SIBling Framework
16:00 – 16:30Felix Hultin MorgerTracking Semantic Change Between Multiple Time Periods

16:30                                         Official close, mingle and departure

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