37.5, Confs: Conference on Methods in Social Sciences and Humanities (France)

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Date: 22-Dec-2025
From: MINEL [jminel at parisnanterre.fr]
Subject: Conference on Methods in Social Sciences and Humanities


Conference on Methods in Social Sciences and Humanities
Short Title: MeSSH26

Date: 09-Jul-2026 - 10-Jul-2026
Location: Aubervilliers, France
Contact: Jean-Luc Minel
Contact Email: jminel at parisnanterre.fr
Meeting URL: https://messh26.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/1

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Computational Linguistics;
Text/Corpus Linguistics
Subject Language(s): English (eng)
                     French (fra)

Submission Deadline: 06-Feb-2026

Digital transformations are profoundly affecting research practices in
the humanities and social sciences (HSS). Massive access to
heterogeneous corpora, the rise of computational methods and computing
resources, the widespread use of data infrastructures, and the
proliferation of collaborative tools are transforming the ways in
which knowledge is captured, produced, analysed and shared. These
transformations are enabling the development of new research
methodologies and contributing to the development of more traditional
approaches.
Organised by the Huma-Num and Progedo research infrastructures (IR*)
and the Humathèque du Campus Condorcet, the ‘MeSSH 2026’ conference
provides a space for discussion and reflection on all the
methodological issues that are relevant to the humanities and social
sciences today. It aims to bring together the entire scientific
community—researchers, doctoral students, engineers, documentation and
heritage professionals.
The objective of this event is twofold:
 - to promote the circulation of experiences and practices between
disciplines, projects and institutions;
 - to contribute to the structuring of communities working on methods,
tools and infrastructures in the humanities and social sciences.
Nine themes are proposed and structure the call for contributions
detailed below:
 - Web data and social networks (Christine Barats, Valérie Beaudouin,
Sophie Gebeil)
 - Interviews and observations (Monica Heintz, Guillaume Garcia)
 - Mixed methods (Cyril Benoit, Valentin Brunel)
 - Digitisation, representation, simulation (Xavier Granier, Livio de
Luca)
 - Heritage and artistic creation (Géraldine David, Xavier
Jacques-Jourion, Sara Lammens, Kim Oosterlinck, Anne-Sophie
Radermecker)
 - Sound, image and georeferenced data (Julien Schuh, Marion
Maisonobe)
 - Surveys and experiments (Pierre Mercklé, Solenne Roux)
 - Statistics and causal inference (Jean Lacroix, Sophie Panel)
 - Text and language (Céline Poudat, Anne-Marie Turcan)
Several of these topics are aimed at the linguistic community :
Web Data and Social Networks:
The theme ‘Web data and social networks’ will welcome proposals that
use digital data to address issues in the humanities and social
sciences.
They must be based on fieldwork and digital sources: data from web
archives, corpora compiled by the researcher, provided that the
criteria for compilation and preservation are clearly stated, data
from platforms, provided that the forms of partnership are clearly
stated.
The methods used to process the corpora may include:
- text mining,
- network analysis,
- image mining,
- machine learning methods (provided that an evaluation system has
been planned).
Interviews and Observations:
The various uses that researchers make of textual tools for their
analyses (i.e. CAQDAS or text analysis software – ADT), their uneven
development across disciplines, and the degree of knowledge or
adherence to the theoretical models embedded in these tools, which are
rooted in very different disciplinary traditions, are worthy of
examination. Similarly, the discrepancies between the centrality of
language in certain areas of sociology and the lack of interest
specifically in language in many forms of analysis, or the intrinsic
limitations of using a linguistic lens in ethnology/anthropology,
which focuses on the unspeakable, could also be questioned.
Digitalisation, representation and simulation
This theme will welcome contributions from a variety of fields such as
heritage, economics and sociology, languages (notably with the impact
of LLMs) and computational digital humanities (mixed models,
simulations inferred from corpora, etc.).
Text and Language:
The ‘Text and Language’ theme focuses on how the creation,
availability, exploration and analysis of textual data and data on the
transmission of texts are transforming research questions, and on the
role that digital technology plays in these processes. It thus invites
joint reflection on the data, tools and interpretative frameworks that
structure current research on texts and their history.
We welcome unpublished papers on digital corpora, whether on the
principles of their constitution, digitisation, structuring and
encoding, or on their documentation, curation and preservation
according to FAIR principles.
We also encourage proposals presenting original computational
methodologies for exploring these corpora, including text mining,
textometry, stylometry, data annotation, automatic language
processing, and visualisation tools for interpretation.
The issue of text reuse and interoperability will also be addressed.
Finally, we would like to explore, through well-informed, critical and
problematised communications, the question of the use of AI on corpora
of textual sources and language data, including for small corpora and
languages with limited resources



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