Sébastien de Valeriola
Assistant Professor, Digital Humanities chair
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Research interests
My current research interests primarily focus on the interesection of the two trends of my career, i.e. on the application of quantitative and numeric methods to humanities questions. I am currently involded in projects touching history, archeology, linguistics, journalism...
Any quantitative method draws my interest, but at present I am mainly working with the following topics:
- Social/Historical Network Analysis
- Text Mining
- Stylometry
- Digital Paleography
- Image Processing
- Data visualization
- Machine Learning
- Medieval History (and more specifically: economic and social history of Middle Ages, hagiography)
Scientific memberships
- Co-chair of the DARIAH-EU Mediaevalist’s Sources Working Group
- Chairman of the Executive board of DH Benelux
- President and founding member of the FRS-FNRS contact group Les humanités des données / Data-driven humanities
- Webmaster of the Revue belge de philologie et d’histoire
- Member of the steering committee of the QFame project (ULB-Universidade de Sao Paulo)
- Member of the scientific committee of the DHNord 2021 conference
- Member of the organizing committee of the EGC 2020 conference (Knowledge Extraction and Management)
Reviewing activites
I am a reviewer for the following journals: Journal of Interdisciplinary Methodologies and Issues in Science, Revue Mabillon, Journal of Historical Network Research, and Journal of Interdisciplinary Methodologies and Issues in Science.Recorded talks
Here is a list of recorded talks that can be freely consulted:
- Can We Trust Centrality? The Robustness of Centrality Metrics in Historical Networks, 15 September 2022, Historical Network Research Lunch Lectures, online (invitation from Ingeborg van Vugt and Aline Deicke)
- Culture(s) du risque et pratiques de l’écrit à Tournai au début du XIVe siècle : une approche quantitative, 2 June 2022, séminaire ScriptHis (Les scripturalités dans l’histoire), Université de Strasbourg (invitation from Thomas Brunner)
Publications
- See also my ORCID page
Here is a wordcloud with the words contained in my main publications:
