Jean-Baptiste Camps
Assoc. Prof. Computational Philology at École des chartes, Univ. PSL
ERC StG "The Lost Manuscripts of Medieval Europe: Modelling the Transmission of Texts (LostMA)" (2024-2029)
Cultural Transmission - Evolution of Texts - Computational Methods - Stylometry
- This call is currently open for a Humanistica-satellite event, that might interest people in computational humanities (and not only). It is supported by CultureLab and welcomes long papers as well as lightning talks and posters.
📢 CfP now open for the Computational Cultural Science Workshop (Paris, 18-19 May 2026) until 16 February. Topics of interest: *️⃣AI and cultural datasets *️⃣Theory-driven humanities research *️⃣Document-based modelling of historical and social processes *️⃣Cultural analytics 👉 c2s.sciencesconf.org
- Reposted by Jean-Baptiste CampsDear Digital Humanists, you are all invited to the EADH 2026 Conference! We are meeting in September, in Kraków, Poland. Mark the important dates in your calendars: 📆 8.02: submission deadline 📆 15-19.09: the conference Read more: eadh2026.confer.uj.edu.pl ✈️ See you in Kraków?
- Reposted by Jean-Baptiste CampsRevisionnez la séance de séminaire de @jbcamps.bsky.social dédiée aux enjeux de la transmission textuelle dans le cadre du projet @lostma.bsky.social. À retrouver sur Vimeo !
- Reposted by Jean-Baptiste CampsQue reste-t-il des textes médiévaux ? Pourquoi certains survivent et d’autres s’effacent ? 👉 Une séance de séminaire dédiée aux enjeux de la transmission textuelle dans le cadre du projet ERC LostMA avec @jbcamps.bsky.social Rendez-vous demain à partir de 14h Inscription 🔽
- @psl-univ.bsky.social CultureLab members will be well represented @ #CHR2025 in Luxemburg this year. Computer vision, agent-based modelling and computational text analysis for cultural science are on the menu www.culturelab.psl.eu/fr/publicati...
- Reposted by Jean-Baptiste CampsA reminder that we are accepting submissions for a themed issue at Computational Humanities Research journal 📙 Deadline is end of February 2026!
- ⚡ CFP: a themed issue in Computational Humanities Research! Meaning, Form, and History in Computational Poetics: if you work on all things verse, all things form, in any language, consider submitting! for questions reach out to me or @nmhouston.bsky.social ! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
- Reposted by Jean-Baptiste CampsThe CultureLab Kick-Off @psl-univ.bsky.social is in full swing! The day started with an opening speech by Stéphane Verger et al. and an opening presentation by @sobchuk.bsky.social! Thanks to @oliviermorin.bsky.social @jbcamps.bsky.social & @floriancafiero.bsky.social for organising!
- We're officially launching the new PSL CultureLab in 10 days ! If you're interested in the research of a collective bridging Computational Humanities, Social Sciences and Cultural Evolution, you can check our programme (and come to our event, if you're in Paris 22 September): psl.eu/agenda/collo...
- Reposted by Jean-Baptiste CampsBrain-split for many #DH2025 participants, who are also finalizing their @comphumresearch.bsky.social submissions. #CHR2025
- Reposted by Jean-Baptiste CampsAre you in Paris on 11/06? Do you need an excuse to come to Paris in early summer solely for scholarly purposes ? Join us for plenty of #manuscriptstudies & #digitalhumanities goodies at @ecoledeschartes.bsky.social @psl-univ.bsky.social 1/2
- On June 11, discover how digital technologies are transforming the way we analyse, interpret, and teach historical texts and manuscripts. Four themed sessions on digital practices, AI tools, and more. Seminar organised by @kakapitan.bsky.social. Registration required ➡ lc.cx/y5g3wN
- Dear potential future PhD students, do not forget to send your file, as the deadline is today !
- The CultureLab at PSL, Paris, is recruiting a research engineer in #dh, computational social sciences and cultural evolution. We're looking for skills in data science, machine learning and programming. 4 years position. euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/323661
- Huge crowd in Paris manifesting for science, academic liberty, and in support of our American colleagues (And my favorite sign) #standupforscience
- Reposted by Jean-Baptiste CampsPlace Jussieu at 1:30PM on Friday for the Parisians! @standupforscifr.bsky.social @sufs-paris-rp.bsky.social
- Reposted by Jean-Baptiste CampsThis is Winston Churchill visiting the White House during World War II. Funny how he isn’t wearing a suit either. Almost like he was a wartime leader defending his country from being slaughtered and wiped out by an authoritarian aggressor.
- Reposted by Jean-Baptiste CampsThere are nearly 2000 Heurist databases hosted by @huma-num.bsky.social. To help integrate them into data pipelines / data analysis, I'm developing a #Python API client and CLI that extracts, transforms, and loads the data into a local @duckdb.org database. lostma-erc.github.io/heurist-etl-...
- Are you interested in cultural transmission, medieval manuscripts or digital humanities, and want to pursue a PhD in a city bustling with intellectual and cultural life ? Come work with us !
- Reposted by Jean-Baptiste Camps5-yr position in computational humanities with @oliviermorin.bsky.social and @jbcamps.bsky.social in Paris! Original deadline has passed but search is ongoing. Details here: cognition.ens.fr/en/job/junio...
- Reposted by Jean-Baptiste Camps[#Vidéo] 🎬 (Re)voir «La #stylométrie sur les traces de Chrétien de Troyes», conférence de @floriancafiero.bsky.social, @jbcamps.bsky.social et Benedetta Salvati ➡ lc.cx/Hx5lpy
- Reposted by Jean-Baptiste CampsCurrent state of affairs on OpenStemmata, before some big updates. Old French and Middle High German are clear winners, but with your help, some of the runners up may just join the leading pack #medievalsky
- Short non-academic communication: I intend to run Paris half-marathon in support of France Parrainages, an association that helps children in need Whether you want to support them, or help making me suffer through 21kms (with a smile on my lips) semi-paris.dossards-solidaires.org/fundraisers/...
- Reposted by Jean-Baptiste Camps☑ Logo ☑ Website (lostma-erc.github.io) ☑ Bluesky account ☐ Stickers The LostMa ERC project is kicking off its 2nd year with a new look. Next up... stickers!
- Very happy that our research made it to the short list, and congratulations to the winners and our fellow participants !
- And a shout-out to the runner ups of the Best Long Paper Award: 🎖"Textual Transmission without Borders" by Matthias Gille Levenson, Lucence Ing and @jbcamps.bsky.social 🎖"Tracing the Development of the Virtual Particle Concept Using Semantic Change Detection" by Michael Zichert and Adrian Wüthrich
- Reposted by Jean-Baptiste Campsthe launch of the Computational Humanities Research Journal is a major talking point at #CHR2024. promises to play a central role in the community, clearly moving in a very important open niche. fair winds to her and her editors! @folgertk.bsky.social @nolauren.bsky.social +Kristoffer Nielbo ⛵
- Reposted by Jean-Baptiste CampsOur proceedings are out! 🚨 They include no less than 78 papers that reflect the diverse and innovative research happening within the Computational Humanities. Take a dive here: ceur-ws.org/Vol-3834/
- Reposted by Jean-Baptiste CampsLe 29/11, au séminaire du Pireh, nous recevrons @jbcamps.bsky.social qui viendra présenter le projet LostMA, visant à comprendre la déperdition des textes et des manuscrits médiévaux. Rdv à 9h30, à la Sorbonne ou sur Zoom. Lien et programme : recherche-pireh.pantheonsorbonne.fr/recherches/s...
- Nous sommes désormais plus de 10 millions sur Bluesky, et j’étais n°1 479 827 !
- Very glad to welcome Federico Boschetti from Venice DPH as Translitterae invited professor with the @ecoledeschartes.bsky.social this month! First lecture today at 16h, rue de Richelieu, on Linguistic resources for semi-automatic HTR correction More info: www.translitterae.psl.eu/federico-bos...
- Reposted by Jean-Baptiste CampsWe are very happy to publicly release the CATMuS Medieval dataset on @huggingface.bsky.social : huggingface.co/datasets/CAT... This dataset is unique in the space of HTR, as it includes more 160 000 lines of ground truth in 10 languages over 9 centuries (8-16 CE) in Latin scripts over 208 docs.
- Tried the Scholar word cloud. Neat ! shiny.rcg.sfu.ca/u/rdmorin/sc...
- !foryou
- Reposted by Jean-Baptiste CampsGetting pumped for a new digital humanities project, LostMa, which will do very cool things with a massive corpus of French medieval fables, legends, and songs. I peeked where the word “music” comes up in some texts (s/o “Roman de Fauvel”) and I can’t wait to get lost in medieval French 😅 👩💻
- So true, also occurs when responding to students or colleague requests for advice !
- And what a great job you all did ! Congrats and respect 🎩 !
- Very proud to have organized Computational Humanities Research 2023 in Paris with @floriancafiero.bsky.social at EPITA. Nothing would have been possible without the support of EPITA, the ARIANE consortium and Humanistica. We welcome 150 people from all over Europe, the US and even Australia!
- Man, is it hard to choose which #CHR2023 session to attend !
- Hmmm, I really should visit some more Eastern European countries !
- Reposted by Jean-Baptiste CampsThe "Seeing beyond the flames: philology and artificial intelligence in the service of burned manuscripts" colloquium @Ecoledeschartes is well underway. The first presentation by Ariane Pinche is a wonderful introduction to HTR technology. #medievalmanuscripts #digitalhumanities
- Reposted by Jean-Baptiste CampsProceedings of Computational Humanities Research 2023 are out! 830 pages 😱 ceur-ws.org/Vol-3558/ Impossible without heroic help from @folgertk.bsky.social
- I must be getting somewhat older than I thought, because it is the second time in two days that I have been asked to do something reflecting back on my career 😅
- Guys, I don't know, I'm feeling like I'm still mostly starting !
- Welcome to the @ecoledeschartes.bsky.social on Bluesky !
- An interesting hypothesis ^^ #TeamCroissantAuChocolat www.ladepeche.fr/2022/02/08/t...
- 🚨 last days to apply (deadline 15 Nov.) ! The ERC project LostMA is recruiting: 1. a post-doc in #complexity science for 2 years (renewable for 2 more); 2. a data-architect and curator for 4 years. Menu: medieval manuscripts, evolutionary models & data analysis at a scale rarely attempted!
- The post-doc should have a background in complexity, interdisciplinary mathematical science, stochastic modelling and/or evolutionary models. He/she will work on designing a null-model for manuscript transmission, starting on the basis of a birth-and-death process euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/155509
- The data architect will work on collecting, aligning, documenting, preserving, data on European medieval manuscripts, of epics and chivalric romances, and their genealogies (stemmata). Background in #dh and data engineering. recrutement.psl.eu/en/node/5581
- Forwarding this will be appreciated ;) cc @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social @digitalmedievalist.bsky.social #medievalsky #dh
- Reposted by Jean-Baptiste CampsWe released an updated programme of the upcoming Computational Humanities Research conference in Paris 2023.computational-humanities-research.org/programme/ Together with a pre-conference workshop on AI and literary studies, this promises to be an exciting December week! workshop-llms4cls.github.io
- Last year, Florian Cafiero and I were asked by David D. Kirkpatrick to give a stylometric expertise on Who was behind the so-called «Qdrops», at the source of the Qanon conspiracy theory. We were one of two teams whose results were then published in the @nytimes.com .
- At the time, we presented our methodology in a white paper. If you are curious to know more, a full report has just been published in DSH, in an expanded version: academic.oup.com/dsh/advance-...
- Reposted by Jean-Baptiste CampsNow that I am on bluesky, let me take you again on a threaded tour of HTR-United (#HTR_United), a project founded and led by @ponteineptique.bsky.social and I since September 2021. Its main goal is to facilitate finding and sharing open datasets to train HTR and OCR models! htr-united.github.io
