P Publications

Publications

Five most important publications:

Monographs

Piotrowski, M. (2012). Natural language processing for historical texts. Morgan & Claypool. https://doi.org/10.2200/S00436ED1V01Y201207HLT017

Peer-reviewed articles in international scientific journals

Piotrowski, M. (2025). Les humanités numériques – vers une “mathématique originale”? Cahiers du Centre de Linguistique et des Sciences du Langage, (69). https://doi.org/10.26034/la.cdclsl.2025.8356

Ulasik, M. A., Mahlow, C., & Piotrowski, M. (2025). Sentence-centric modeling of the writing process. Journal of Writing Research, 16(3), 463–498. https://doi.org/10.17239/jowr-2025.16.03.05

Piotrowski, M., & Kemman, M. (2023). Institutional arrangements in the absence of disciplinary definitions: Digital humanities in Switzerland. Swiss Journal of Sociology, 49(3), 519–540. https://doi.org/10.2478/sjs-2023-0025

Piotrowski, M., & Xanthos, A. (2020). Décomposer les humanités numériques. Humanités numériques, 1. https://doi.org/10.4000/revuehn.381

Piotrowski, M. (2019). Accepting and Modeling Uncertainty. Zeitschrift für digitale Geisteswissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.17175/sb004_006a

Piotrowski, M. (2019). Historical models and serial sources. Journal of European Periodical Studies, 4(1), 8–18. https://doi.org/10.21825/jeps.v4i1.10226

Maiatsky, M., Boyarsky, A., Boyarskaya, N., Velmezova, E., & Piotrowski, M. (2018). VicoGlossia: Annotatable and commentable library as a bridge between reader and scholar (a proof of concept study: Early Soviet philological culture). Umanistica Digitale, 2(2). https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2532-8816/7253

Höfler, S., & Piotrowski, M. (2011). Building corpora for the philological study of Swiss legal texts. Journal for Language Technology and Computational Linguistics, 26(2), 77–89.

Mahlow, C., & Piotrowski, M. (2009). SMM: Detailed, structured morphological analysis for Spanish. Polibits, 39, 41–48.

Piotrowski, M. (1997). NLP-supported full text retrieval. Revue. Informatique et Statistique dans les Sciences Humaines, 33(1–4), 285–298.

Peer-reviewed contributions to edited volumes

Piotrowski, M. (2024). Schism or renaissance? On the relationship between computational humanities and digital humanities. In C. A. Nunn & F. van Oorschot (Eds.), Compendium computational theology: Introducing digital humanities to theology (Vol. 1, pp. 31–49). heiBOOKS. https://doi.org/10.11588/HEIBOOKS.1521.C21938

Piotrowski, M. (2024). Schisma oder Renaissance? Zum Verhältnis von Computational Humanities und Digital Humanities. In C. A. Nunn & F. van Oorschot (Eds.), Kompendium Computational Theology: Forschungspraktiken in den Digital Humanities (Vol. 1, pp. 33–53). heiBOOKS. https://doi.org/10.11588/HEIBOOKS.1459.C21901

Piotrowski, M. (2013). Rechtsquellen und Computerlinguistik. In 153. Neujahrsblatt des Historischen Vereins des Kantons St. Gallen (p. 38). Toggenburger Verlag.

Piotrowski, M. (2011). QTI—a failed e-learning standard? In F. Lazarinis, S. Green, & E. Pearson (Eds.), Handbook of research on e-learning standards and interoperability: Frameworks and issues (pp. 59–82). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61692-789-9.ch004

Piotrowski, M. (2010). What is an e-learning platform? In Y. Kats (Ed.), Learning management systems technologies and software solutions for online teaching: Tools and applications (pp. 20–36). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61520-853-1.ch002

Mahlow, C., & Piotrowski, M. (2009). A target-driven evaluation of morphological components for German. In S. Clematide, M. Klenner, & M. Volk (Eds.), Searching answers – Festschrift in honor of Michael Hess on his 60^(th) birthday (pp. 85–99). MV-Wissenschaft.

Piotrowski, M., Amelung, M., & Rösner, D. (2007). EduComponents: Educational components for Plone. In M. Lytras & A. Naeve (Eds.), Open source for knowledge and learning management: Strategies beyond tools. Idea Group.

Peer-reviewed papers in conference proceedings

Piotrowski, M. (2024). Towards computational historiographical modeling. In J. Baudry, L. Burkart, B. Joyeux-Prunel, E. Kurmann, M. Mähr, E. Natale, C. Sibille, & M. Twente (Eds.), Digital history switzerland 2024: Book of abstracts. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13904530

Öhman, E., Piotrowski, M., & Hämäläinen, M. (2023). The great digital humanities disconnect: The failure of DH publishing. In M. Hämäläinen, E. Öhman, F. Pirinen, K. Alnajjar, S. Miyagawa, Y. Bizzoni, N. Partanen, & J. Rueter (Eds.), Proceedings of the joint 3rd international conference on natural language processing for digital humanities and 8th international workshop on computational linguistics for uralic languages (pp. 132–137). Association for Computational Linguistics. https://aclanthology.org/2023.nlp4dh-1.16

Piotrowski, M. (2023). Incertitude et histoire numérique. Actes du colloque Humanistica 2023. Colloque Humanistica 2023, Genève, June 26–28, 2023. https://hal.science/hal-04108242

Mahlow, C., & Piotrowski, M. (2022). Academic writing and publishing beyond documents. DocEng ’22: Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Document Engineering 2022. ACM symposium on document engineering 2022, September 20–23, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1145/3558100.3563840

Fafinski, M., & Piotrowski, M. (2020). Modelling medieval vagueness: Towards a methodology of visualising geographical uncertainty in historical texts. In R. H. Reussner, A. Koziolek, & R. Heinrich (Eds.), INFORMATIK 2020 (pp. 1317–1326). Gesellschaft für Informatik; Gesellschaft für Informatik. https://doi.org/10.18420/inf2020_123

Piotrowski, M., & Fafinski, M. (2020). Nothing new under the sun? Computational humanities and the methodology of history. In F. Karsdorp, B. McGillivray, A. Nerghes, & M. Wevers (Eds.), CHR2020: Proceedings of the workshop on computational humanities research (pp. 171–181). CEUR Workshop Proceedings. http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2723/short16.pdf

Piotrowski, M., & Neuwirth, M. (2020). Prospects for computational hermeneutics. In C. Marras, M. Passarotti, G. Franzini, & E. Litta (Eds.), Atti del IX convegno annuale AIUCD: La svolta inevitabile: Sfide e prospettive per l’informatica umanistica (pp. 204–209). Associazione per l’Informatica Umanistica e la Cultura Digitale (AIUCD). https://doi.org/10.6092/UNIBO/AMSACTA/6316

Piotrowski, M. (2019). A vision for user-defined semantic markup. Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Document Engineering 2019 (DocEng ’19). https://doi.org/10.1145/3342558.3345414

Piotrowski, M. (2019). History and the future of markup. In J. Kosek (Ed.), Proceedings of XML Prague 2019 (pp. 323–333). http://archive.xmlprague.cz/2019/files/xmlprague-2019-proceedings.pdf#page=335

Piotrowski, M. (2018). Digital humanities: An explication. In M. Burghardt & C. Müller-Birn (Eds.), Proceedings of INF-DH 2018. Gesellschaft für Informatik. https://doi.org/10.18420/infdh2018-07

Mousselly Sergieh, H., Piotrowski, M., & Gurevych, I. (2017). EGOlink: Supporting editors of online historical sources through automatic link discovery. Proceedings of Digital Humanities 2017 (DH 2017), 758–761. https://dh2017.adho.org/abstracts/163/163.pdf

Piotrowski, M. (2016). Future publishing formats. In R. Sablatnig & T. Hassan (Eds.), DocEng ’16: Proceedings of the 2016 ACM symposium on document engineering (pp. 7–8). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/2960811.2967170

Piotrowski, M. (2015). Informatik – technischer Hilfsdienst der Digital Humanities? In G. Görz, A. Henrich, G. Heyer, M. Thaller, & M. Warnke (Eds.), DHd-Workshop «Informatik und die Digital Humanities». DHd.

Piotrowski, M., Colavizza, G., Thiery, F., & Bruhn, K.-C. (2014). The Labeling System: A new approach to overcome the vocabulary bottleneck. In P. Schmitz, L. Pearce, & Q. Dombrowski (Eds.), DH-CASE II: Collaborative annotations in shared environments: Metadata, tools and techniques in the digital humanities (pp. A1/1–6). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/2657480.2657482

Piotrowski, M., & Senn, C. (2012). Harvesting indices to grow a controlled vocabulary: Towards improved access to historical legal texts. In K. Zervanou & A. van den Bosch (Eds.), Proceedings of the EACL 2012 workshop on language technology for cultural heritage, social sciences, and humanities (LaTeCH 2012) (pp. 24–29). ACL. http://aclweb.org/anthology/W12-1005

Mahlow, C., & Piotrowski, M. (2010). Noun phrase chunking and categorization for authoring aids. In M. Pinkal, I. Rehbein, S. Schulte im Walde, & A. Storrer (Eds.), Semantic approaches in natural language processing: Proceedings of the conference on natural language processing 2010 (KONVENS) (pp. 57–65). Universaar. http://universaar.uni-saarland.de/monographien/volltexte/2010/12/

Mahlow, C., Piotrowski, M., & Fenske, W. (2010). A solid foundation: Why e-assessment should be based on a systematic typology of test items. In M. Baptista Nunes & M. McPherson (Eds.), Proceedings of the IADIS international conference e-learning 2010 (Vol. 2, pp. 47–51). IADIS Press.

Piotrowski, M. (2010). Document conversion for cultural heritage texts: Frame­Maker to HTML revisited. In A. Antonacopoulos, M. Gormish, & R. Ingold (Eds.), DocEng 2010: Proceedings of the 10^(th) ACM symposium on document engineering (pp. 223–226). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/1860559.1860608

Piotrowski, M. (2010). From law sources to language resources. In C. Sporleder & K. Zervanou (Eds.), Proceedings of the ECAI 2010 workshop on language technology for cultural heritage, social sciences, and humanities (LaTeCH 2010) (pp. 67–71). http://ilk.uvt.nl/LaTeCH2010/LPF/ws16.pdf

Piotrowski, M. (2010). Leveraging back-of-the-book indices to enable spatial browsing of a historical document collection. In R. Purves, P. Clough, & C. Jones (Eds.), Proceedings of the 6^(th) workshop on geographic information retrieval (GIR’10) (pp. A17/1–2). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/1722080.1722102

Piotrowski, M., Läubli, S., & Volk, M. (2010). Towards mapping of alpine route descriptions. In R. Purves, P. Clough, & C. Jones (Eds.), Proceedings of the 6^(th) workshop on geographic information retrieval (GIR’10) (pp. A2/1–2). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/1722080.1722083

Mahlow, C., & Piotrowski, M. (2009). LingURed: Language-aware editing functions based on NLP resources. International Multiconference on Computer Science and Information Technology, 2009 (IMCSIT’09), 243–250. https://doi.org/10.1109/IMCSIT.2009.5352721

Mahlow, C., & Piotrowski, M. (2009). Opportunities and limits for language awareness in text editors. In R. Domeij, S. Johansson Kokkinakis, O. Knutsson, & S. Sofkova Hashemi (Eds.), Proceedings of the workshop on NLP for reading and writing – resources, algorithms and tools (Vol. 3, pp. 14–18). Northern European Association for Language Technology (NEALT); Tartu University Library.

Piotrowski, M., & Mahlow, C. (2009). Linguistic editing support. In U. M. Borghoff & B. Chidlovskii (Eds.), DocEng’09: Proceedings of the 9^(th) ACM symposium on document engineering (pp. 214–217). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/1600193.1600240

Mahlow, C., & Piotrowski, M. (2008). Computational linguistics for word processing: Opportunities and limits. In S. Sofkova Hashemi, O. Knutsson, R. Domeij, & S. Johansson Kokkinakis (Eds.), Workshop on NLP for reading and writing: Resources, algorithms and tools. KTH; Online. http://spraakbanken.gu.se/personal/sofie/SLTC_2008/sltc-2008.final.pdf

Mahlow, C., & Piotrowski, M. (2008). Linguistic support for revising and editing. In A. Gelbukh (Ed.), Computational linguistics and intelligent text processing, 9^(th) international conference CICLing 2008 (pp. 631–642). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78135-6_54

Mahlow, C., Piotrowski, M., & Hess, M. (2008). Language-aware text editing. In R. Dale, A. Max, & M. Zock (Eds.), LREC 2008 workshop on NLP resources, algorithms and tools for authoring aids (pp. 9–13). ELRA. http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2008/workshops/W23_Proceedings.pdf

Amelung, M., Piotrowski, M., & Rösner, D. (2007). eduComponents: A component-based e-learning environment. ITiCSE’07: Proceedings of the 12th Annual SIGCSE Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, 352–352. https://doi.org/10.1145/1268784.1268923

Amelung, M., Piotrowski, M., & Rösner, D. (2007). Large-scale computer-assisted assessment in computer science education: New possibilities, new questions. In J. Fong & F. L. Wang (Eds.), Proceedings of workshop on blended learning 2007 (pp. 257–266). online. http://www.cs.cityu.edu.hk/~wbl2007/WBL2007_Proceedings_HTML/WBL2007_Proceedings.pdf

Amelung, M., Piotrowski, M., & Rösner, D. (2007). Webbasierte Dienste für das E-Assessment. 2. Workshop Pervasive University im Rahmen der GI-Jahrestagung 2007, Lecture Notes in Informatics, 518–522.

Piotrowski, M., Amelung, M., & Rösner, D. (2007). Tactical, document-oriented e-learning components. In M. B. Nunes & M. McPherson (Eds.), Proceedings of the IADIS international conference e-learning 2007 (pp. 171–177). IADIS Press.

Piotrowski, M., & Fenske, W. (2007). Interoperabilität von elektronischen Tests. DeLFI 2007: 5. e-Learning Fachtagung Informatik, Lecture Notes in Informatics, 185–196. http://subs.emis.de/LNI/Proceedings/Proceedings111/gi-proc-111-016.pdf

Rösner, D., Piotrowski, M., & Amelung, M. (2007). A sustainable learning environment based on an open source content management system. In W. Bühler (Ed.), Proceedings of the german e-science conference (GES 2007). Max Planck Digital Library. http://edoc.mpg.de/315523

Amelung, M., Piotrowski, M., & Rösner, D. (2006). EduComponents: Experiences in e-assessment in computer science education. ITiCSE’06: Proceedings of the 11^(th) Annual SIGCSE Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, 88–92. https://doi.org/10.1145/1140124.1140150

Rösner, D., Amelung, M., & Piotrowski, M. (2006). E-Learning-Komponenten zur Intensivierung der Übungen in der Informatik-Lehre – ein Erfahrungsbericht. In P. Forbrig, G. Siegel, & M. Schneider (Eds.), HDI2006: Hochschuldidaktik der Informatik (pp. 89–102). GI-Verlag.

Piotrowski, M., & Rösner, D. (2005). Integration von E-Assessment und Content-Management. In D. Tavangarian, J. M. Haake, & U. Lucke (Eds.), DeLFI2005: 3. Deutsche e-Learning Fachtagung Informatik der Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (Volume P-66, pp. 129–140). GI-Verlag. http://subs.emis.de/LNI/Proceedings/Proceedings66/GI-Proceedings.66-13.pdf

Rösner, D., Amelung, M., & Piotrowski, M. (2005). LlsChecker – ein CAA-System für die Lehre im Bereich Programmiersprachen. In D. Tavangarian, J. M. Haake, & U. Lucke (Eds.), DeLFI2005: 3. Deutsche e-Learning Fachtagung Informatik der Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (Volume P-66, pp. 307–318). GI-Verlag. http://subs.emis.de/LNI/Proceedings/Proceedings66/GI-Proceedings.66-13.pdf

Hahn, U., Honeck, M., Piotrowski, M., & Schulz, S. (2001). Subword segmentation—leveling out morphological variations for medical document retrieval. In S. Bakken (Ed.), Proceedings of the 2001 AMIA annual symposium (pp. 229–233). AMIA. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11825186

Piotrowski, M., Klöcker, J., & Knappen, J. (1999). Is markup sufficient for scientific articles? In G. Partosch & G. Wilhelms (Eds.), EuroTeX’99 proceedings (pp. 281–289).

Edited proceedings

Rochat, Y., Métrailler, C., & Piotrowski, M. (Eds.). (2023). Proceedings of the workshop on computational methods in the humanities 2022 (COMHUM 2022). CEUR Workshop Proceedings. Workshop on computational methods in the humanities 2022 (COMHUM 2022), Lausanne, June 9–10, 2022. http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3602/

Piotrowski, M. (Ed.). (2018). COMHUM 2018: Book of abstracts for the Workshop on Computational Methods in the Humanities 2018. Workshop on computational methods in the humanities 2018, Lausanne, June 4–5, 2018. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1312778

Piotrowski, M. (Ed.). (2018). Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Methods in the Humanities (COMHUM 2018). CEUR Workshop Proceedings. Workshop on computational methods in the humanities 2018, Lausanne, June 4–5, 2018. http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2314/

Mahlow, C., & Piotrowski, M. (Eds.). (2015). Systems and frameworks for computational morphology: Fourth international workshop, SFCM 2015, stuttgart, germany, september 17–18, 2015, proceedings (Vol. 537). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23980-4

Mahlow, C., & Piotrowski, M. (Eds.). (2013). Systems and frameworks for computational morphology: Third international workshop, SFCM 2013, berlin, germany, september 6, 2013, proceedings (Vol. 380). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40486-3

Piotrowski, M., Mahlow, C., & Dale, R. (Eds.). (2012). Proceedings of the EACL 2012 workshop on computational linguistics and writing: Linguistic and cognitive aspects of document creation and document engineering (CL&w 2012). ACL. http://aclweb.org/anthology/W12-03

Mahlow, C., & Piotrowski, M. (Eds.). (2011). Systems and frameworks for computational morphology: Second international workshop, SFCM 2011, zurich, switzerland, august 26, 2011, proceedings (Vol. 100). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23138-4

Piotrowski, M., Mahlow, C., & Dale, R. (Eds.). (2010). Proceedings of the NAACL HLT 2010 workshop on computational linguistics and writing: Writing processes and authoring aids. ACL. http://aclweb.org/anthology/W10-04

Mahlow, C., & Piotrowski, M. (Eds.). (2009). State of the art in computational morphology: Workshop on systems and frameworks for computational morphology, SFCM 2009, zurich, switzerland, september 4, 2009, proceedings (Vol. 41). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04131-0

Outreach (not peer-reviewed)

Piotrowski, M. (2020). Modèles de mobilité des musiciens et migration des motifs musicaux. In E. Velmezova (Ed.), Journée de la recherche en Lettres 2020: La recherche et la mobilité. Université de Lausanne, Faculté des lettres. https://iris.unil.ch/handle/iris/78268

Piotrowski, M. (2019). La technologie et l’interdisciplinarité. In E. Velmezova (Ed.), Journée de la recherche en Lettres 2019: Interdisciplinarité, pluridisciplinarité, multidisciplinarité, transdisciplinarité dans le monde académique d’aujourd’hui: avantage ou obstacle? Université de Lausanne, Faculté des lettres. https://iris.unil.ch/handle/iris/46352

Piotrowski, M. (2018). Digital Humanities – zwischen Metawissenschaft und neuer Disziplin. SocietyByte: Wissenschaftsmagazin des BFH-Zentrums Digital Society, (Dezember 2018). https://www.societybyte.swiss/2018/12/05/was-heisst-und-zu-welchem-ende-studiert-man-digital-humanities/

Preprints and Working Papers

Piotrowski, M. (2024). Looking back to look ahead: Bachelard’s phenomenotechnique and Gardin’s logicist approach in digital history. Preprint. https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.14188187

Piotrowski, M. (2023). Uncertainty as unavoidable good (Center for Uncertainty Studies Working Papers No. 5). Universität Bielefeld, Center for Uncertainty Studies (CeUS). https://doi.org/10.4119/UNIBI/2983506

Piotrowski, M. (2020). Ain’t no way around it: Why we need to be clear about what we mean by “digital humanities.” In M. Huber, S. Krämer, & C. Pias (Eds.), Wozu digitale geisteswissenschaften? Innovationen, revisionen, binnenkonflikte. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/d2kb6

Piotrowski, M. (2015). Early modern European peace treaties online [Final Report]. DM2E Open Humanities Award. http://dm2e.eu/files/D4.6_app4_Peace-Treaties_final.pdf

Talks

Piotrowski, M., & Ramogida, T. (2026). Arguing with corpora: The epistemic status of corpora in computational humanities [Talk]. DHBenelux 2026 conference, Maastricht University, The Netherlands, June 3–5, 2026.

Piotrowski, M. (2026, March 25). Computer science as a humanities discipline: Recovering the humanistic roots of computation [Talk]. 2^(nd) conference on Undone Science in Computer Science, University of Luxembourg, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg, March 23–25, 2026.

Piotrowski, M. (2026, April 16). Neither utopia nor dystopia: The everyday reality of West German home computing in the 1980s [Talk]. International conference “Technological optimism in 1970s and 1980s popular culture: Innovation, creativity, prosperity, and freedom,” Leibniz Institute of European History, Mainz, Germany, April 15–17, 2026.

Piotrowski, M. (2025, March 13). Computational historical models and historiographical uncertainty [Invited talk]. Colloquium “Building models of change: Bridging sciences and humanities,” Bielefeld University, Germany, March 13, 2025.

Piotrowski, M. (2025, April 30). Publishing in digital humanities [Invited talk]. Workshop “Rethinking scholarly publishing – open access & peer review,” University of Zurich, April 30, 2025.

Piotrowski, M. (2025, December 12). Schism or renaissance? On the relationship between computational humanities and digital humanities [Invited talk]. Swedish baby names advisory board workshop, Uppsala University, Sweden, December 11–13, 2025.

Piotrowski, M. (2024, February 27). Zur Institutionalisierung der Digital Humanities in der Schweiz [Invited talk]. Colloquium “Digital Academia. Die digitale Transformation von Wissenschaft und Universitäten,” Universität Zürich, February 27, 2024.

Piotrowski, M. (2024, September 12). Towards computational historiographical modeling [Talk]. Conference Digital History Switzerland 2024, University of Basel, September 12–13, 2024.

Piotrowski, M. (2024, October 25). Looking back to look ahead: Bachelard’s phenomenotechnique and gardin’s logicist approach in digital history [Talk]. Conference “Revolutionary, disruptive, or just repeating itself? Tracing the history of digital history,” Deutsches Historisches Institut/Institut historique allemand, Paris, France, October 23–25, 2024.

Piotrowski, M. (2024, December 4). Les humanités numériques : rencontres du troisième type ou voyage vers une mathématique originale ? [Keynote]. Séance d’ouverture du centre de recherche Ratio DH, Université libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium, December 4, 2024.

Piotrowski, M. (2023). Model, corpus, interpretation: Elements of computational hermeneutics. FernUniversität in Hagen; Talk. Digital hermeneutics II: Sources, analysis, interpretation, annotation, and curation, Frankfurt am Main, November 23–24, 2023. https://www.fernuni-hagen.de/forschung/schwerpunkte/digitale-kultur/docs/digital_hermeneutics_ii_-_book_of_abstracts.pdf

Piotrowski, M. (2023, February 28). « L’incertitude historiographique, mal nécessaire, ou bien inévitable ? » [Invited talk]. Cercle de Serendip, Université de Lausanne, February 28, 2023.

Piotrowski, M. (2023, June 22). The role of models in the digital transformation [Invited talk]. Workshop “Education & the digital transformation of social research: Methods, challenges, perspectives,” Pädagogische Hochschule Zürich, June 21–22, 2023.

Piotrowski, M. (2023, June 27). Incertitude et histoire numérique [Talk]. Colloque annuel de l’Association francophone des humanités numériques Humanistica, Université de Genève, June 26–28, 2023.

Piotrowski, M. (2023, September 28). Uncertainty [Public discussion with Silke Schwandt]. Open Space Day of the Digital Academy 2023, Bielefeld University, Germany, September 28, 2023.

Piotrowski, M. (2022). Vergessen macht sich breit. Unsicherheit und komputationelle historische Modelle. Conférence invitée au [Kolloquium Geschichtskulturen]lang=de. Université de Bielefeld, Allemagne, 23 novembre 2022.

Piotrowski, M. (2022, April 25). Epistemological issues in digital humanities [Invited talk]. DH-Kolloquium an der BBAW, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin, Germany, April 25, 2022.

Piotrowski, M. (2022, May 12). Some reflections on historiographical uncertainty and computational modeling [Invited talk]. Amsterdam CREATE symposium on historical uncertainties, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, May 12, 2022.

Piotrowski, M. (2022, July 9). Some notes on uncertainty and formalization [Invited talk]. Digital Humanities and Ottoman Studies workshop, University of Vienna, Austria, July 9, 2022.

Piotrowski, M. (2020). Prospects for computational hermeneutics. Talk at the IX Convegno Annuale AIUCD, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan.

Piotrowski, M. (2020). Natural language processing: A solved problem? Invited talk at the workshop “Digital Humanities and Ottoman Studies,” Universität Wien.

Piotrowski, M. (2020). Projets actuels en humanités numériques. Conférence invitée lors de la journée de travail ChronoFiles, Université de Genève.

Piotrowski, M. (2020). What are we uncertain about? The challenge of historiographical uncertainty. Invited talk at the workshop “Modelling Vagueness and Uncertainty in DH,” Universität Hamburg. https://lecture2go.uni-hamburg.de/l2go/-/get/v/36554

Piotrowski, M. (2020). Ich weiss nicht, was soll es bedeuten …: Überlegungen zur Modellierung historiografischer Unsicherheit. Eingeladener Vortrag bei der Tagung «Informationen – digital verpackt», Zentralbibliothek Zürich. https://youtu.be/6oMpvjD2Z6Q

Piotrowski, M. (2020). Was ist, was soll Digital Humanities? Eingeladener Vortrag bei der Ringvorlesung: «Einblicke in die Digital Humanities», Universität Bern.

Piotrowski, M. (2019). La technologie et l’interdisciplinarité. Journée de la recherche en Lettres, Faculté des lettres, Université de Lausanne.

Piotrowski, M. (2019). Formale Modellbildung in den Geisteswissenschaften. Eingeladener Vortrag, Philosophisch-historische Fakultät, Universität Bern.

Piotrowski, M. (2019). Technologie und Interdisziplinarität. Eingeladener Vortrag, mainzed – Mainzer Zentrum für Digitalität in den Geisteswissenschaften.

Piotrowski, M. (2019). Re intellecta, in verbis simus faciles, or: What’s your model? Invited talk at the First LiLa Workshop: Linguistic Resources and NLP Tools for Latin, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan.

Piotrowski, M. (2019). Digital Humanities – Moden, Methoden, Modelle. Keynote bei der Kick-off-Veranstaltung «Niedersachsen digital – Digitalisierung in den Lebens-, Geistes-, und Kulturwissenschaften» der VolkswagenStiftung und des Niedersächsischen Ministeriums für Wissenschaft und Kultur.

Piotrowski, M. (2019). Digital Humanities – Moden, Methoden, Modelle. Vortrag am Symposium «Wozu Digitale Geisteswissenschaften? Innovationen, Revisionen, Binnenkonflikte», Leuphana-Universität Lüneburg.

Piotrowski, M. (2018). Accepting and modeling uncertainty. Talk at the workshop The Modeling of Doubt—Key Ideas and Concepts for Graph-Based Modeling of Uncertainties, Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz, Germany.

Piotrowski, M. (2018). Historical texts, NLP, and formal models. Invited talk at NLP4ARC 2018 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel-Hill.

Piotrowski, M. (2017). Virtuelle Forschungsplattformen im Vergleich. Talk at DHd 2017, Bern, Switzerland.

Piotrowski, M. (2017). History is the future of online learning. Invited talk at the dariahTeach Open Resources Conference in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Piotrowski, M. (2017). Überlegungen zu digitalen Editionen. Invited talk at the workshop on Josephus Latinus, University of Bern, Switzerland.

Piotrowski, M. (2017). Transcription as an approach for modeling digitization. Invited talk at the XI^(th) International IAWIS/AIERTI Conference “Images and Texts Reproduced” in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Piotrowski, M. (2017). Historical models and serial sources. Invited talk at the workshop “Digital approaches towards serial publications (18th–20th centuries),” Royal Academies for Sciences and Arts of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium.

Piotrowski, M. (2017). Formal models in the humanities. Invited talk at the Second Literary Linguistics Conference, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany.

Piotrowski, M. (2017). Digitization of historical texts: State of the art. Invited talk at the workshop “Reading like a Human: Historical natural language processing and philosophical concept drift,” University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Piotrowski, M. (2016). Knowledge representation: A key to digital historical research. Invited talk at the University of Vienna, Austria.

Piotrowski, M. (2016). Was heißt «Digital Humanities»? Invited talk at the University of Vienna, Austria.

Piotrowski, M. (2016). Digital humanities as a metascience. Invited talk at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland.

Piotrowski, M. (2016). Nachnutzbare digitale Korpora für die historische Forschung: Potenziale, Probleme und Prozesse. Invited talk at the CLARIN-D workshop “Digitale Geschichtswissenschaft – Neue Tools für neue Fragen?” Berlin, Germany.

Piotrowski, M. (2016). Digital humanities, computational linguistics, and natural language processing. Invited talk at Uppsala University, Sweden.

Piotrowski, M. (2016). The digital humanities—the “computational linguistics” for the rest of the humanities? Invited talk in the Fred Jelinek Seminar Series at Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.

Piotrowski, M. (2016). Digital humanities defined differently. Invited talk at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands.

Piotrowski, M. (2016). Establishing digital humanities as metascience for computer-based humanities and social sciences. Invited talk at RWTH Aachen University, Germany.

Panter, S., & Piotrowski, M. (2015). Cosmobilities – Grenzüberschreitende Lebensläufe in den europäischen Nationalbiographien des 19. Jahrhunderts. Talk at the symposium “Digital Humanities und transnationale Geschichte,” Marburg, Germany.

Panter, S., & Piotrowski, M. (2015). Cosmobilities – Neue historische Forschungsperspektiven durch die Integration digitaler Instrumente und Methoden. Invited talk at Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany.

Piotrowski, M. (2014). Natural language processing for historical texts. Invited talk at the DARIAH-DE workshop “Introduction to the TXM Content Analysis Platform,” University of Würzburg, Germany.

Piotrowski, M. (2014). Natural language processing for historical texts. Invited talk at the Professorship for Corpus Linguistics, Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen–Nuremberg, Germany.

Piotrowski, M. (2014). Suchen, sortieren und vergleichen: Normdaten und kontrollierte Vokabulare für die historische Forschung. Invited talk at the Digital Humanities Tag, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany.

Piotrowski, M. (2014). Jenseits der Zeichenkette: Linguistische Redigierfunktion. Invited talk at the workshop “Text als Werkstück: Wege zu einer computerunterstützten Überarbeitung von deutschen Texten,” DIPF, Frankfurt (Main), Germany.

Piotrowski, M. (2014). Normdaten und kontrollierte Vokabulare – intellektuelle Infrastruktur für die Digital Humanities. Invited talk at University of Basel, Switzerland.

Piotrowski, M. (2014). Informatik – technischer Hilfsdienst der Digital Humanities? Contribution to the workshop “Informatik und die Digital Humanities,” University of Leipzig, Germany.

Piotrowski, M. (2014). Virtuelle Forschungsumgebungen: Standardsoftware oder Werkzeugkasten? Invited talk at the workshop “Redaktionssysteme und Virtuelle Forschungsumgebungen,” Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Union of the German Academies of Sciences, Munich, Germany.

Piotrowski, M. (2014). Zugänge zu elektronischen Editionen. Invited talk at the conference “Editionen! Wozu? Und wie viele? Zum Stand der historischen Edition im digitalen Zeitalter,” Zurich, Switzerland.

Piotrowski, M. (2014). Publishing early modern peace treaties as Linked Open Data. Open Humanities Award talk at the DM2E final event, Pisa, Italy.

Piotrowski, M. (2014). Turning historical documents into digital data. Invited talk at the HCAS Symposium “Big data approaches to intellectual and linguistic history,” University of Helsinki, Finland.

Piotrowski, M. (2013). Natural language processing for historical texts. Invited talk at the HiCor 2013 Workshop, Oxford University, UK.

Piotrowski, M. (2013). Digitale Editionen: Technische Aspekte und aktuelle Entwicklungen. Invited talk at the workshop “E-Editionen: Neue Publikationsmaßstäbe für historische Quellenprojekte,” Institut für Ost- und Südosteuropaforschung, Regensburg, Germany.

Piotrowski, M. (2013). Historical NLP and the digital humanities. Invited talk at the workshop “Historical computational linguistics” at NoDaLiDa 2013, Oslo, Norway.

Piotrowski, M. (2013). Text mining for historical legal texts. Expert contribution to the MetaLEX workshop, Fondation Maison des sciences de l’homme (FMSH), Paris, France.

Piotrowski, M. (2013). Towards concept-based information retrieval for historical texts. Talk at the 19^(th) International Congress of Linguists (ICL 19), Geneva, Switzerland.

Piotrowski, M. (2013). Controlled vocabularies for the digital humanities. Invited talk at the 2013 Annual Meeting of the International TUSTEP Users Group, Mainz, Germany.

Piotrowski, M. (2013). Concept-based information retrieval for historical text collections. Invited talk at KU Leuven, Belgium.

Piotrowski, M. (2013). Natural language processing for historical texts. Invited talk at the colloquium “Digital Humanities: Topics, Strategies and Technologies,” Trier University, Germany.

Piotrowski, M. (2012). eduComponents: Ein Learning Management System mit Plone. Invited talk at the German Plone Conference 2012, Munich, Germany.

Piotrowski, M. (2012). Jtem es ist ouch uf unnd an gnomen: Computerlinguistik und historische Texte. Invited talk at the Department of German Studies and Linguistics of the Humboldt-Universität, Berlin, Germany.

Piotrowski, M. (2012). Towards concept-based information retrieval for historical texts. Invited talk at the 2012 Leipzig eHumanities Seminar, University of Leipzig, Germany.

Piotrowski, M. (2012). Die vierte Kultur: Digital Humanities als Vermittlerin zwischen Geistes- und Naturwissenschaften. Invited talk at the University of Bern, Switzerland.

Mahlow, C., & Piotrowski, M. (2011). Writing and writing tools: Separate worlds? Talk at the 4^(th) International Conference on Writing Research: Writing Research Across Borders II.

Piotrowski, M., & Mahlow, C. (2011). The influence of writing tools and mechanics on text production. Talk at the 33^(rd) Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS), Göttingen, Germany.

Piotrowski, M. (2011). A multilingual corpus of medieval and early modern Swiss texts. Talk at the Conference on New Methods in Historical Corpora, Manchester, UK.

Piotrowski, M. (2011). Die Digitalisierung der Sammlung Schweizerischer Rechtsquellen: Neue Zugänge zu alten Texten. Invited talk at the Linguistic Research Colloquium of the University of Zurich, Switzerland.

Piotrowski, M. (2011). Die Digitalisierung der Sammlung Schweizerischer Rechtsquellen: Auf dem Weg zu einem mehrsprachigen historischen Korpus. Invited talk at the Institute of Linguistics, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany.

Piotrowski, M. (2010). Alte Texte und neue Möglichkeiten: Die Retrodigitalisierung der Sammlung Schweizerischer Rechtsquellen. Invited Talk at the Swiss Institute of Information Science, HTW Chur, Switzerland.

Piotrowski, M. (2010). Die Retrodigitalisierung der Sammlung Schweizerischer Rechtsquellen. Invited Talk at Centrum für Informations- und Sprachverarbeitung, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Germany.

Mahlow, C., & Piotrowski, M. (2010). Writing research and natural language processing: Challenges and opportunities. Talk at SIG Writing Conference 2010, Heidelberg, Germany.

Piotrowski, M. (2009). Dokumente: Von der Suche zur Erstellung. Invited Talk at University of Heidelberg, Germany.

Piotrowski, M. (2009). Making word processors process words. Talk at Computers and Writing 2009, Davis, CA.

Piotrowski, M. (2009). Linguistic editing support. Invited Talk at University of Tübingen, Germany.

Piotrowski, M. (2008). Documents: From retrieval to creation. Invited Talk at MODUL University, Vienna, Austria.

Piotrowski, M. (2008). Dokumente: Von der Suche zur Erstellung. Invited Talk at TU Darmstadt, Germany.

Piotrowski, M. (2001). NLP-supported full-text retrieval. Invited Talk at GMD IPSI, Darmstadt, Germany.

Piotrowski, M. (2000). NLP-supported full-text retrieval. Invited Talk at Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA.