The 3rd Lunchtime Seminar (Langage: Japanese) Reading Computers and Novels Date: 5/14 (Wed) 12:00 - 13:00 Place: Idea Stoa No application required, on-site participation only We look forward to your participation!

Tomoya Sano, a lecturer at our center, in collaboration with Associate Professor Naoya Iwata (also from our center) and Associate Professor Takahiro Komamizu from the Center for Artificial Intelligence, Mathematical and Data Science, has developed a new feature that identifies and summarizes the reasons for proposed laws using AI. This feature is now available on the legal database published by Nagoya University (URL: https://jahis.law.nagoya-u.ac.jp/lawdb/). The research results have been published on Nagoya University's research dissemination website. Below is an excerpt from the article. In November 2023, Nagoya University launched a database that allows full-text searches of laws and imperial ordinances. This database aims to support access to legal information for a wide range of users—from experts to the general public—and…

The “Humanitext” research project—led by Associate Professor Naoya Iwata of our Center, in collaboration with Associate Professor Ikko Tanaka (J. F. Oberlin University) and Assistant Professor Jun Ogawa (The University of Tokyo)—has launched “Humanitext OCR,” a user-friendly system leveraging the image and text recognition capabilities of state-of-the-art large language models (LLMs). This system is specifically designed to enable accurate and flexible optical character recognition (OCR) of complex documents, without requiring advanced programming knowledge. Traditional OCR software has often struggled to reliably extract desired information from documents with complicated layouts or extensive footnotes and annotations. Humanitext OCR addresses these challenges by utilizing the advanced image comprehension abilities of LLMs. Users simply input natural-language instructions (“prompts”), such as requests to remove unnecessary…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bK7fXvDvCXA Click here to download the poster PDF. To commemorate the establishment of our center, we held a kick-off symposium on Sunday, January 26, 2025. An archived video is now available. In addition to Yukiko Kawamoto and Naoya Iwata of the Center, the panelists included Miki Tori, cartoonist and author of "Pliny the Elder," and Masaki Aoyagi, professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo! Enjoy lectures by our splendid guests! Basic Information Date: Sunday, January 26, 2025, 13:00-17:30 (doors open at 12:15) Location: Sakata-Hirata Hall, South Building of Science and Technology, Nagoya University ( access information ) Organized by: Center for the Digital Humanities and Social Sciences, Nagoya University Supported by: Graduate School of Humanities, Institute for Advanced Research, The…

Venue: Mori Arts Center Gallery (52F, Roppongi Hills Mori Tower), Tokyo Period: January 25, 2025 (Sat) - April 6, 2025 (Sun) 　The Brooklyn Museum's special exhibition "Ancient Egypt" supervised by Prof. Yukinori Kawae of the Brooklyn Museum is now being held! 　The University is also officially cooperating in this project, and there is a special corner introducing the 3D measurement survey of the pyramids at Giza related to the " Digital Heritage Project " promoted by Prof. Kawae, and a perspective survey of the pyramids using cosmic ray muons by Dr. Kunihiro Morishima of Nagoya University's Graduate School of Science! 　If you are in Tokyo, please come to the event! Prof. Kawae giving an introduction at the preview

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQetcVWNH2Y Click here to download the poster. Basic Information Date: Friday, February 21, 2025, 13:30-17:00 (doors open at 13:00) Location: TOIC NAGOYA 1F, Higashiyama Campus, Nagoya University ( access information ) Organized by: Center for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences, Nagoya University *This workshop is supported by the Future Society Creation Project (Young Academia Formation). ・Inquiries : dhss-jimu@t.mail.nagoya-u.ac.jp