Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 39, No. 355.
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        Date: 2026-03-04 10:24:45+00:00
        From: Hassina Aliane <ahassina4@gmail.com>
        Subject: sharing a CFP Artificial Intelligence and Digital Humanities

Dear Humanist list

I am pleased to share here our conference cfp: Artificial Intelligence and
Digitales Humanities: practices, challenges and future directions that is
scheduled to take place at Algiers on October, 27-29, 2026. Best regards.

International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Digital Humanities: 
practices, challenges and future directions

The Information Science and Digital Humanities division at the Research
Center on Scientific and Technical Information at Algiers, is delighted to
announce the organization of the International Conference on Artificial
Intelligence and Digital Humanities: practices, challenges and future
directions. This is an interdisciplinary event that aims at bringing
together researchers, scholars and practitioners from all related
disciplines to share investigations and experiences in the transformative
intersection of AI and DH.

Conference objectives

The rise of AI is revolutionizing research, analysis, preservation, and
mediation practices in the humanities and social sciences. At the same
time, digital humanities offer fertile ground for experimenting with new
tools, methods, and critical perspectives on linguistic, historical,
cultural, and heritage data.

However, in the Algerian context, as in many Arab, African and
Mediterranean countries, local knowledge, heritage corpora, national
languages, and forms of thought stemming from the social sciences and
humanities remain underrepresented in the major international dynamics of
the digital humanities and AI. This first edition of the conference, to be
held in Algiers in October 2026, aims to raise awareness and give
visibility to the research, practices, and issues specific to these
regions. It offers a space for interdisciplinary dialogue between
researchers, engineers, heritage professionals, artists, librarians,
linguists, and computer scientists to explore together the critical,
epistemological, and creative potential of AI applied to the humanities, 
with a particular focus on countries and communities that are 
underrepresented in these fields.

Topics

We welcome original research papers, case studies and sharing experiences
within the non-exhaustive list of topics below:

Applications and Practices
•AI-driven text analysis and Natural Language Processing in humanities
research
•Digital preservation and restoration of cultural heritage using AI
•AI applications in archaeology, history, and archival studies
•AI in social memory and trauma studies
•AI in creative and cultural practices: literature, art, music, and
performance
•Bias, representation and stereotyping in AI-generated cultural content
•AI in critical/computational cultural studies
•Digital storytelling, immersive and interactive experiences (VR/AR,
gamification)
•AI-enhanced pedagogy and digital learning in the humanities
•AI for audience engagement, participatory humanities and public cultural
practices

Data and Methods
•Multilingualism and low-resource languages in digital humanities (corpora,
resources and tools)
•Data creation, curation, annotation and sharing for humanities and heritage
•Multimodal cultural datasets (text, image, sound, video) and their
challenges
•Computational methods for historical and diachronic analysis
•Knowledge graphs, ontologies, data modeling and semantic technologies
•Collaborative platforms and infrastructures for interdisciplinary research
•Interdisciplinary collaboration: models, challenges and best practices
•Evaluation frameworks and benchmarks for humanities AI applications

Ethics, Policy, and Perspectives
•Ethical challenges and responsible AI in the humanities
•Legal frameworks, intellectual property, and data governance in cultural
contexts
•Policy, governance, and risk mitigation in AI adoption
•Environmental sustainability of AI infrastructure in humanities research
•Decolonial AI, local knowledge systems, and inclusive digitization
•Global South perspectives on AI and digital humanities


Chairs
Honorary Chair: Prof. Zoheir Mokhtari, Director of CERIST
Chair: Dr. Hassina Aliane, Director of Research, CERIST

Participation opportunities

Paper/poster
Special session: NLP and impact of LLMs for regional low-resourced
languages: Demos: demonstration of tools

Panels:
Panel 1: Ethics, Responsible AI and legal frameworks in Digital humanities.
Panel 2: Open access, open data and Digital Humanities.
Panel 3: South-south cooperation in AI and Digital Humanities.

Important dates :
Submission deadline: May 15th, 2026
Notification of acceptance: July 15th , 2026
Camera ready submission: July 31st, 2026
Registration deadline: September 20th, 2026.

Submission
All submissions must use the CMT3 platform and IEEE template:
https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/AIDH2026/
https://templateSelector.ieee.org/secure/templateSelector/downloadTemplate?publi
cationTypeId=3&titleId=1&articleId=1&fileId=550

Publication and diffusion

All contributions will be peer-reviewed:
- Articles submitted to the main conference and the special session must be
written in English. The conference proceedings will be submitted to IEEE.
- Contributions to the panels may be in Arabic, French or English, they
will appear in a separate booklet.

Further details regarding participation in the panels will be published
later.

Contact: ia-dh2026@cerist.dz
Website: http://aidh.cerist.dz/

--
Dr. Hassina Aliane, Director of Research, 
Head of Natural Language Processing and Digital Content Team,
Director of the Digital Humanities R&D laboratory, 
Editor of the Information Processing at The Digital Age Review. 
Research Center on Scientific and Technical Information.


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