Peter T. Evans
Digital Humanities | NLP | Computational Theology
Now: Institute for Digital Humanities, University of Göttingen.
Before: Digital Academy, Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
Before Before: The list is long...
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- Reposted by Peter T. EvansThis took several years and I'm so happy it is finally out. We just released an open-source dataset of nearly 2M African speech records for speech recognition and vocalization (27 languages). Blog: blog.google/intl/en-afri... Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2602.02734 Dataset: huggingface.co/datasets/goo...
- Reposted by Peter T. EvansThe CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions! This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...
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- Nothing like finding a flaw in your code, causing you to redo *all* your statistical analyses, when you’re already 3/4 done with your thesis…
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- Reposted by Peter T. EvansAnnouncing—LatinCy Readers v.1.0.2, i.e. LatinCy-powered corpus readers for Latin text collections. Quickly get sentences, lines, words annotated for lemma, POS, morphology, NER, etc. Supporting .txt, .xml, .tess, .conllu, and more. github.com/diyclassics/... #digiclass #nlproc
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Great new digital humanities PhD program at Carnegie Mellon for undergrads who want to do culture + comp sci without choosing. I see a real hunger for this path w/ my students. And they're hiring TT faculty! Help spread the word for potential PhD applicants + job seekers! www.cmu.edu/dietrich/eng... - Reposted by Peter T. Evans[Not loaded yet]
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- Reposted by Peter T. EvansI understand why people like LLMs because I, too, really want this paper to be done. By which I mean, I want to “stop thinking about it,” but to do so I have to arrive at a point where the thought is *complete* rather than the point at which I am “frustrated by the challenge of completing it.”
- Reposted by Peter T. Evansamong everything else this week dunno if you heard but coding is over. huge opp for humanities folks. should be megaphoning 'learning to think never goes out of style'
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- Five classes I took in university: The Bible as Literature Narrative Art in the Gospels Kings and Chronicles Philosophy of C.S. Lewis Special Topics in History: Victorian England
- Reposted by Peter T. EvansTeaching a class on Critical AI. Am I missing any key texts? We already did Stochastic Parrots last term. I need 1 more reading each on "Aesthetics" and "Intimacy". And I'd rather not use Crawford twice.
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- Reposted by Peter T. EvansThis week saw the release of eScriptorium 1.0.0, the end of years of work and a last run done by H, Aguili at @inriaparisnlp.bsky.social The new UI is much better, you can discover it at youtu.be/WEf42RlweZA
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- Reposted by Peter T. EvansMicrosoft Research NYC is hiring a researcher in the space of AI and society!
- Reposted by Peter T. EvansCome and work with me! We’re looking for a Research Software Engineer to join the Oxford RSE group. Deadline 13th February. rse.ox.ac.uk/vacancies
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- Reposted by Peter T. EvansACH is holding our annual virtual conference, ACH 2026, from June 24 to 26, 2026. We are excited to announce that we have extended our call for papers to February 23, 2026: buff.ly/Rltfrcu
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- Reposted by Peter T. EvansWe are absolutely delighted about Professor Mila Oiva joining the @dhssfau.bsky.social team. With her work on 'images & objects' she brings an important new area of focus to our research in #DH #Watchthisspace #DigitalHumanities
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- Come work with us! Tallinn Uni is hiring a second lecturer in DH&AI. Estonian proficiency not required, foreign applicants welcome, required phd can be in progress (expected to be completed), competitive salary+benefits, nice working environment close to the sea candidate.recrur.com/public/jobad...
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