Tohoku U and Harvard Yenching host free AI digital humanities workshop, Dec 2026
SebastianNehrd2 · x · 2026-10-18
Tohoku University's Center for Integrated Japanese Studies, with Harvard Yenching Institute and the Dharmamitra Project, will run an international workshop on 'AI and Digital Humanities: Applications to Classical Text Research' in Sendai, Dec 5-9, 2026, open to grad students, postdocs and assistant professors at Japanese universities. It covers AI methods for under-served Eurasian languages (Sanskrit, Pali, Classical Chinese, Arabic, etc.): critical edition building, multilingual interfaces, LLM benchmarking, local LLM deployment, ChatGPT API and agentic methods, taught by a Schmidt Sciences-funded team. Free, with travel subsidies up to ¥130,000; applications close Nov 7, 2026.
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