7 Oct 2025, 11:36

DISSINET Newsletter

Dear friends and colleagues,

We hope you have had a good start to the academic year. Take a moment to catch up on DISSINET's recent updates, including our reflections on working with LLMs, our summer activities, and a new online resource.

Research

Extracting data from historical texts using LLMs

Large Language Models (LLMs) hold significant promise for extracting information from historical texts. If used appropriately, they can speed up the research process and help researchers achieve ambitious objectives in quantitative cultural history.

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Summer in review

Conferences, workshops, and success at a competition on detecting hate speech

This summer, DISSINET team members attended five international conferences and two summer schools, showcasing the diversity of our research efforts.

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New resource

DISSINET shares a transcription of an unpublished inquisition register

As part of DISSINET's corpus work, we have procured a transcription of the register of John Galand and William of Saint-Seine, 1283–1302, that we have made available in the Zenodo repository.

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