A Conversation between AI and Humanities

Progress in image, text and speech processing is one of the most remarkable recent advances in Artificial Intelligence. These data are also at the heart of the Humanities and Social Sciences, which, through the Digital Humanities, have developed a wide range of digital approaches to understanding them. Artificial Intelligence and Digital Humanities are therefore bound to come together. In fact, various points of contact already exist. However, it seems that the full potential of this encounter has not yet been explored, and that efforts in this direction promise to be fruitful. With this in mind, we propose to bring these two communities together. The aim is to establish a dialogue that will enable the transfer of knowledge and know-how from the AI community to the SHS community, so that the latter can integrate them into its methodological arsenal, and to make explicit the specificities of SSH that could point to new directions in AI research.