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        Date: 2025-04-17 12:11:07+00:00
        From: Öyvind Eide <oeide@uni-koeln.de>
        Subject: Call for Participation - Summer School on “Large Language Models for Digital Humanities Research"

Dear list members,

As in previous years, the University of Cologne is once again hosting a summer
school on Machine Learning – this time with a special focus on Large Language
Models. Please find the full call for applications below and feel free to share
it with anyone who might be interested.


Call for participation

This year’s Summer School on “Large Language Models for Digital Humanities
Research“, organized by the University of Cologne’s Competence Area III, in
conjunction with the Center for Data and Simulation Science, the Department for
Digital Humanities, the Cologne Center for eHumanities, and the Data Center for
the Humanities, takes place

8th – 11th September 2025, at Cologne University (on site).

This summer school addresses MA students and doctoral candidates from
Linguistics and Digital Humanities, as well as other fields that focus on the
application of LLMs for DH Research.

After an introductory workshop on LLMs and Prompt Engineering (Day 1+2), led by
Christopher Pollin (Digital Humanities Craft OG), participants will join one of
four specialized workshop tracks (Day 3+4).

Participants can choose between four alternative workshop tracks:

1) “Large Language Models for Qualitative Data Analysis” – Instructor: Sarah
Oberbichler (Leibniz Institute of European History, Mainz)

2) “Deep Learning in the Computational Literary Studies” – Instructor: Janis
Pagel (University of Cologne)

3) “LLM-Supported Modeling, Operationalization, and Exploration for Digital
Editions”  – Instructor: Christopher Pollin (Digital Humanities Craft OG,
Institute for Documentology and Scholar Editing / IDE)

4) “Using LLMs for Psycholinguistic Research” – Instructor: Hanna Woloszyn, Job
Schepens and Benjamin Gagl (University of Cologne)

Please Note: Participation in the summer school is free of charge! However,
minor costs might occur if specific hardware (e.g. Google Colab) is required
during workshops.

Application Deadline: 1 June 2005.

Further information and application instructions: http://ml-school.uni-koeln.de/

Best wishes,

The LLMs for DHR Summer School Organizing Committee


How to apply:

Please send an email to ml-school@uni-koeln.de <mailto:ml-school@uni-koeln.de>
with the following information:

Your full name
Your current affiliation
Desired Workshop Track (1)-(4) (please provide your first choice + 1
alternative)
Highest Degree you are holding
Your current academic position and field
Python experience: 1-2 sentences describing a course or project where you used
python
Motivation: 2-3 sentences why you would like to participate in the summer school

Application Deadline: 1 June 2025


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