Anthology of Computers and the Humanities

Volume 6, October 2026

Computational Cultural Science Workshop 2026

Edited by Suzanne Mpouli, Jean-Baptiste Camps, Florian Cafiero, and Chahan Vidal-Gorène

The proceedings of the Computational Cultural Science Workshop, held in Paris on May 18–19, 2026, as a satellite event of Humanistica 2026. The workshop was organized by Suzanne Mpouli (PSL CultureLab), Jean-Baptiste Camps, Florian Cafiero, and Chahan Vidal-Gorène (Centre Jean-Mabillon).

Automated Annotation via Structural Alignment for Hierarchical Classification of Classical Fiqh Texts
Hazim Baroudi, Wassim Ammar, Farid Bouchiba, Shadha Karoumi, Christian Müller, Fabrice Rossi. 1–14.
Health, vitality, and trust: embedding-based cross-lingual retrieval of medicinal advertisements in European and colonial press
Vy Cao. 15–22.
A NER Model for Science Fiction’s Lexical Innovation
Mathilde Ducos, Frédéric Landragin. 23–31.
A Gueuloir of One’s Own: Computing the Acoustic Signature of Flaubert
Simon Gabay, Florian Cafiero, Jean-Luc Falcone. 32–45.
Discursive Signatures: A Computational Method for Mapping How Meaning Varies Across Communities
Mark J. Hill, Vince Miller, Tiago Moreira. 46–56.
Is There a Patent Genre? A Computational Text Analysis of French Patents, 1903–1940
Matti La Mela, Yunting Xie. 57–72.
Neutral Drift and Cumulative Memory:
A Wright–Fisher Model of Thematic Evolution
in Online Horror Fiction
Alexandre Lionnet, Florian Cafiero. 73–83.
Measuring the effect of censorship on translation flow
Kirill Maslinsky. 84–93.