Publications

A selection of work by the lab, oldest first.

2019

  1. Using Word Embeddings to Examine Gender Bias in Dutch Newspapers, 1950-1990
    Melvin Wevers
    In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change , 2019

2020

  1. The Visual Digital Turn. Using Neural Networks to Study Historical Images
    Melvin Wevers ,  and  Thomas Smits
    Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 2020
  2. Digital Begriffsgeschichte: Tracing Semantic Change Using Word Embeddings
    Melvin Wevers ,  and  Marijn Koolen
    Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History, 2020
  3. Tracking the Consumption Junction: Temporal Dependencies between Articles and Advertisements in Dutch Newspapers
    Melvin Wevers ,  Jianbo Gao ,  and  Kristoffer L. Nielbo
    Digital Humanities Quarterly, 2020

2021

  1. Towards Multimodal Computational Humanities. Using CLIP to Analyze Late-Nineteenth Century Magic Lantern Slides
    Thomas Smits ,  and  Mike Kestemont
    In Proceedings of the Conference on Computational Humanities Research 2021 , 2021
    ISSN: 1613-0073
  2. Event Flow - How Events Shaped the Flow of the News, 1950-1995
    Melvin Wevers ,  Jan Kostkan ,  and  Kristoffer L. Nielbo
    In Proceedings of the Conference on Computational Humanities Research 2021 , 2021
  3. Scene Detection in De Boer Historical Photo Collection
    Melvin Wevers
    In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence , 2021

2022

  1. The Great Unseen. Photojournalism and the archive: from analogue to digital
    Thomas Smits ,  and  Saskia Asser
    TMG Journal for Media History, 2022
  2. Computer Vision for the Humanities: An Introduction to Deep Learning for Image Classification (Part 2)
    Daniel van Strien ,  Kaspar Beelen ,  Melvin Wevers , and 2 more authors
    Programming Historian, 2022
  3. The Agency of Computer Vision Models as Optical Instruments.
    Thomas Smits ,  and  Melvin Wevers
    Visual Communication, 2022
  4. What Shall We Do With the Unseen Sailor? Estimating the Size of the Dutch East India Company Using an Unseen Species Model
    Melvin Wevers ,  Folgert Karsdorp ,  and  Jelle van Lottum
    In Proceedings of the Computational Humanities Research Conference 2022 , 2022
    ISSN: 1613-0073

2023

  1. A multimodal turn in Digital Humanities. Using contrastive machine learning models to explore, enrich, and analyze digital visual historical collections
    Thomas Smits ,  and  Melvin Wevers
    Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 2023
  2. Distant reading 940,000 online circulations of 26 iconic photographs
    Thomas Smits ,  and  Ruben Ros
    New Media & Society, 2023
    Publisher: SAGE Publications
  3. Blind Dates: Examining the Expression of Temporality in Historical Photographs
    Alexandra Barancova ,  Melvin Wevers ,  and  Nanne van Noord
    In Proceedings of the Computational Humanities Research Conference 2023 , 2023

2024

  1. Stochastic Remembering and Distributed Mnemonic Agency: Recalling Twentieth Century Activists with ChatGPT
    Rik Smit ,  Thomas Smits ,  and  Samuel Merrill
    Memory Studies Review, 2024
    Publisher: Brill
  2. Coloring in the world of others: color use in visual orientalism, 1890–1920
    Thomas Smits ,  and  Melvin Wevers
    Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 2024
    Publisher: Palgrave
  3. Revisiting the Kahn collection: multimodal artificial intelligence and visual patterns of presence and absence in the Archives de la Planète, 1909–1931
    Thomas Smits
    Visual Studies, 2024
    Publisher: Routledge
  4. Charting Lives and Careers: Enriched Data About the Dutch East India Company’s Eighteenth-Century European Workforce
    Lodewijk Petram ,  Marijn Koolen ,  Melvin Wevers , and 1 more author
    Journal of Open Humanities Data, 2024

2025

  1. Epistemic capture through specialization in post-World War II parliamentary debate
    Ruben Ros ,  and  Melvin Wevers
    Computational Humanities Research, 2025
  2. (Machine) Learning about the Victorians
    Thomas Smits
    Journal of Victorian Culture, 2025
  3. Quantifying Archival Silences: Phylogenetic Diversity Analysis of Controlled Vocabulary Utilization
    Melvin Wevers ,  Thomas Smits ,  and  Folgert Karsdorp
    Anthology of Computers and the Humanities, 2025
  4. A Fully-Searchable Multimodal Dataset of the Illustrated London News, 1842-1890
    Thomas Smits ,  Bethany Warner ,  Paul Fyfe , and 1 more author
    Journal of Open Humanities Data, 2025