News
ATNU Virtual Speaker Series - Martina Scholger - 2025-06-25
Our next speaker in the ATNU Virtual Speaker Series is Martina Scholger from the University of Graz who will talk to us about "Promise and Peril: Generative AI in Digital Scholarly Editing".
Join us on Wednesday 25 June 2025 at 4pm UK (BST) time. (We will send the zoom link to all registered attendees shortly before the event.)
"Promise and Peril: Generative AI in Digital Scholarly Editing"
Martina Scholger (University of Graz)
Wednesday 25 June 2025
4pm (BST) (8am PT, 11am ET) [Check your timezone here!]
IF YOU MISSED THIS TALK A RECORDING OF IT IS AVAILABLE HERE!
Abstract:
Generative AI is rapidly becoming integral to digital scholarly editing workflows, as demonstrated by diverse initiatives from the digital humanities, including workshops by the Institute for Documentology and Scholarly Editing (IDE) at the last two annual DHd conferences. Large Language Models offer considerable potential across the editorial pipeline - from conversion processes, text annotation, named entity recognition, normalization, and translation, extending to application development and visualization. However, their non-deterministic nature fundamentally shifts editorial work. This requires expert-in-the-loop approaches to maintain scholarly rigor while ensuring these technologies supplement rather than replace thorough methodology and scholars’ interpretive work. Their implementation requires critical engagement with environmental factors, legal questions regarding the legitimate use of training data, and considerations of ethics and scholarly integrity concerning reproducibility and transparency. This presentation explores the applicability of generative AI in digital editing workflows and the resulting transformation of editorial processes through examples from long-established digital edition projects at the University of Graz’s Department of Digital Humanities.
Bio:
Martina Scholger is a senior scientist at the Department of Digital Humanities, University of Graz, where her research focuses on digital scholarly editing, text encoding, text mining, and LLM applications. She completed her PhD in Digital Humanities in 2018 with a thesis on digital editing of artists’ notebooks. She is currently co-principal investigator of the joint FWF and DFG project Early Manila Hokkien (2024-2026), and is involved in developing a digital edition of Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall’s correspondence, as well as the Visual Archive Southeastern Europe, and Picturing Migrants' Lives projects. Scholger has served as an elected member of the TEI Technical Council since 2016, has been a member of the Institute for Documentology and Scholarly Editing since 2012, and is managing editor of RIDE (Review Journal for Scholarly Digital Editions and Resources).
Last modified: Wed, 25 Jun 2025 23:20:18 BST