The Swedish Graduate School of Digital Philology (DigPhil)
We are excited to announce the launch of the National Graduate School of Early Languages and Digital Philology (DigPhil). This project will establish a cutting-edge doctoral research environment that combines the study of early languages – from pre-historical and ancient to early modern languages and their varieties up to the eighteenth century – with advancements in language technology. Our goal is to educate a new generation of philologists, grounded in the rich history of their discipline while possessing a strong proficiency in language technology. DigPhil is made possible thanks to financial support from the Swedish Research Council, 2023-27 (VR 2022-06343).
What is philology? DigPhil departs from a broad definition of Philology as the integrated study of languages and texts within their historical contexts. This field traces its roots back to the Library of Alexandria in the third century BCE, encompassing a dynamic and interdisciplinary interaction between textual criticism, book history, historical linguistics, various forms of textual analysis (meter, rhetoric, narratology, etc.), and hermeneutics.
What is digital philology? Digital philology incorporates digital methods and tools across all aspects of traditional philology. Examples include applying machine learning to restore fragmentary texts, utilizing computational approaches in comparative historical linguistics, conducting automated stylometry or narrative analysis, and extracting information from texts through data-mining techniques. If you're unsure where to start, we have gathered some links to meaningful contributions to digital philology below.
Where is DigPhil? DigPhil is a national graduate school, coordinated by the Faculty of Languages, Uppsala University, in collaboration with Lund University and Stockholm University. Its organizational structure is a follows:
Principal Investigator:
Eric Cullhed (Uppsala University)
Steering Committee:
Mari Bacquin (Lund University)
Elisabet Göransson (Lund University)
Christian Høgel (Lund University)
Jenny Larsson (Stockholm University)
Sofia Lodén (Stockholm University)
Ingela Nilsson (Uppsala University)
Beáta Megyesi (Uppsala University/Stockholm University)
Joakim Nivre (Uppsala University)
For general inquiries, feel free to contact eric.cullhed@lingfil.uu.se, or beata.megyesi@lingfil.uu.se.
Contact
- info@lingfil.uu.se