Workshop LLMs 2

Methodological reflections and practical applications of LLMs for the Social Sciences and Humanities – afternoon session

📅 27 November 2025
📍 Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
🕘 09:30-12:00 and 13:30-17:00
💸 Fee: free! but registration is required (limited places)

Please note: If you want to attend the entire day, make sure to also register for the morning session via LLMs 1.

This workshop is explicitly targeted towards researchers in humanities and social sciences. The morning session does not require any prior knowledge. The second session in the afternoon is hands-on and technical where we will run through a prepared notebook on Google Colab together (so you will need an account on https://colab.google/). Experience with Python and Jupyter notebooks is recommended for this second part.

Programme

Morning session (theoretical): room BV-1H50
Link to campus map! BV = building 1091 called “BelleVue”; NU = building 1111 “Nieuwe Universiteitsgebouw”

• 9:30-9:45: welcome + SSHOC Task 3.1 introduction (Ellie Smith)
• 9:45-10:20: The Ins and outs of LLMs (Antske Fokkens)
• 10:20-10:50: coffee break
• 10:50-11:25: Applying LLMs to Archival Information Extraction (Stella Verkijk)
• 11:25-12:00: What is a “good” LLM? Common evaluation tasks for LLMs (Bram Vanroy)

Afternoon session (practical): room NU-5B51 (20/10T)

• 12:00-13:30: lunch (only provided for those that registered for the full day)
• 13:30-15:00: hands-on session part 1
• 15:00-15:30: coffee break
• 15:30-17:00: hands-on session part 2

Contact

The workshop is organized by the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU) and the Instituut voor de Nederlands Taal (INT) as part of SSHOC-NL Task 3.1: Methodologically Sound Data Enrichment and Evaluation. You can contact us via this form https://enrichment.ivdnt.org/contact/.