Fabio Ciotti

Issue 22 (2026) of Umanistica Digitale is now available online.

Special Issue, "From Data to Heritage: Semantic Enrichment, Archives, and Digital Libraries" (IRCDL 2025), edited by Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio and Marcella Cornia.
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We are happy to share that issue no. 21 (2025) of UD - diamond open access journal of @aiucd.bsky.social - is out.
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Ammissione - ComunIA Università di Roma Tor Vergata Iscrizione Home > Blog Le domande di immatricolazione e di iscrizione possono essere esclusivamente presentate nei periodi indicati per ciascun anno accademico secondo le modalità indicate dalla Facol...

Pronto a unire comunicazione e AI? 🤖

Sono aperte le iscrizioni (1-15 settembre) per il nuovo corso di laurea in "Comunicazione e Intelligenza Artificiale" a Uniroma2. Un percorso innovativo con curricula su editoria e data science.
comunia.lettere.uniroma2.it/ammissione
#UniRoma2 #AI #Comunicazione

This could be game changing arxiv.org/abs/2506.10943

On Wednesday 18th, inspired by the book by my friend and department director Lorenzo Perilli, with Gino Roncaglia and Simone Borra I will discuss AI data and artificial consciousness...
The link for streaming will be published one hour before the event on alef.lettere.uniroma2.it/info

Self-Interpretability: LLMs Can Describe Complex Internal Processes that Drive Their Decisions, and Improve with Training We have only limited understanding of how and why large language models (LLMs) respond in the ways that they do. Their neural networks have proven challenging to interpret, and we are only beginning t...

A different approach to interpretability. Instead of probing neurons and circuits, *tune* the models to provide "accurate, quantitative descriptions of their own internal processes during certain kinds of decision-making," and then show that this ability generalizes. #MLSky 🤖

With my young colleagues Anna Chiara and Aurora within the Reading the Italian Novel at a Distance (rind.units.it) project, on June 12, 2025, 2 PM, we'll talk about using LLMs for fee indirect discourse identification @aiucd.bsky.social 2025 conference

CfP: Artificial Intelligence and Digital Humanities: Methodological approaches, theories and methods
Siena, Nov. 4-5, 2025
Keynote speakers: Fredric Clavert, Fabio Ciotti
Interested authors are invited to submit (to fabio.deninno@unisi.it and michele.lacriola@unisi.it) an abstract by May 15, 2025.

Does literature evolve one funeral at a time? | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences The cultural evolution of literary fiction is rarely studied, but rich literary data can help address some of the general problems of cultural change. In this article, we use a massive dataset of Angl...

New from @sobchuk.bsky.social and @babeheim.bsky.social: Cohort turnover is a stronger force than individual change for the long-term change of topics in books.
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Next week on 23/01/25, I will be in Leipzig to give a lecture on GenAI and DH, as part of the lecture series 'Digital Humanities - Theory and Methodology', organized by my great friend - and comrade of many years of service in EADH and ADHO Elisabeth Burr.

On 21 and 22 November 2024, at the University of Rome, Tor Vergata promoted by the research project ‘Texts of Uncertain Authorship in Thirteenth-century Italian Lyric Poetry’, there will be the conference ‘Attributional Philolology. Computational methods in comparison.

Italian DH association annual conference CfP: AIUCD 2025, Verona June 11-13 - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Challenges and Opportunities for Digital Humanities in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. Dealine 12.01.2025 aiucd2025.dlls.univr.it/en-gb/call-f...

Workshop on AI & DH (Part 1) In collaboration with the Groupe de Recherche sur les Éditions critiques en contexte Numérique, our Center is proud to host the first part of a workshop on AI & DH on 27-28 November 2024 at the Univer...

To start, On November 27/28 I will give a talk at the AI&DH workshop organized at the Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur les humanités numériques (CRIHN) in Montreal. Here is the detailed program: crihn.openum.ca/.../11/12/wo....

So here I am. I hope to find the great scholarly community environment that Twitter was in the gold age again. Hello to people who already knew me, and nice to meet you everybody!