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MHDW 2026
15th Mining Humanistic Data Workshop
July 16-19, 2026
Hybrid @ Chania, Greece & Web
https://conferences.cmodlab-iu.edu.gr/mhdw2026/

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The abundance of available data, which is retrieved from or is related to the areas of Humanities and the human condition, challenges the research community in processing and analyzing it. The aim is two-fold: on the one hand, to extract knowledge that will help to understand human behavior, creativity, way of thinking, reasoning, learning, decision making, socializing and even biological processes; on the other hand, to exploit the extracted knowledge by incorporating it into intelligent systems that will support humans in their everyday activities.

The nature of humanistic data can be multimodal, semantically heterogeneous, dynamic, context-, time- and space-dependent, as well as highly complicated. Translating humanistic information, e.g. behavior, interaction, state of mind, artistic creation, linguistic utterance, learning and genomic information into numerical or categorical low-level data, is considered a significant challenge on its own. New techniques, appropriate to deal with this type of data, need to be proposed whereas existing ones must be adapted to their special characteristics.

The workshop aims to bring together interdisciplinary approaches that focus on the application of innovative as well as existing data matching, fusion and mining, forecasting as well as knowledge discovery and management techniques (like decision rules, decision trees, association rules, ontologies and alignments, clustering, filtering, learning, classifier systems, neural networks, support vector machines, preprocessing, post processing, feature selection, visualization techniques) to data derived from all areas of Humanistic Sciences, e.g. linguistic, historical, behavioral, psychological, artistic, musical, educational, social, etc., Ubiquitous, Pervasive and Mobile Computing, as well as Bioinformatics. Works on other scientific disciplines interacting with Humanistic Sciences and relevant data are also welcome.


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Aim and topics
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Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
-     Humanistic data collection and interpretation
-     Data pre-processing
-     Feature selection methodologies
-     Supervised or unsupervised learning of humanistic knowledge
-     Deep learning for humanistic data
-     Clustering/Classification techniques
-     Fuzzy modeling
-     Heterogeneous data fusion
-     Knowledge representation and reasoning
-     Linguistic data and text mining
-     Educational data mining
-     Music information retrieval
-     Data-driven profiling/ personalization
-     User modeling
-     Behavior prediction
-     Recommender systems
-     Web sentiment analysis
-     Social data mining
-     Data visualization techniques
-     Integration of data mining results into real-world applications with humanistic context
-     Ontology matching and alignment
-     Mining humanistic data in the cloud
-     Game data mining
-     Data Mining for Virtual and Augmented Reality
-     Speech and audio data processing
-     Data mining techniques for knowledge discovery
-     Biomedical data mining
-     Bioinformatics
-     Content creation, annotation and modeling for semantic and social web
-     Computational intelligence for media adaptation and personalization
-     Semantics-driven indexing and retrieval of multimedia contents
-     Semantic context modeling and extraction
-     Context-aware applications
-     Social web economics and business
-     Privacy/security issues in social and personalized applications
-     Privacy preserving data mining and social networks
-     Social data analytics
-     Applied and theoretical econometrics
-     Actuarial data analytics
-     Ubiquitous, Pervasive and Mobile Computing for the Humanities
-     Forecasting


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Important Dates
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- Paper submission: April 19th, 2026
- Notification of paper acceptance: May 2nd, 2026
- Camera-ready submission: May 8th, 2026
- Early/ Author registration by: May 8th, 2026
- Workshop Dates: July 16th - 19th, 2026

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Papers submission
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Details about the MHDW 2026 submission guidelines are available on the MHDW 2026 website (https://conferences.cmodlab-iu.edu.gr/mhdw2026/).

Accepted papers will be presented orally in the AIAI 2026 conference and will be published in a proceedings volume organised by the main AIAI2026 event by Springer in the IFIP "Advances in Information and Communication Technology" series, and will be submitted to international organizations for indexing (SCOPUS, DBLP, Google Scholar, ACM Digital Library, IO-Port, MAthSciNet, CPCI, Zentralblatt MATH, and EI Engineering Index).

As with previous MHDW workshops, plans are in place to have extended versions of selected papers appear in international journal Special Issue(s) to be announced. The invited keynote speaker is to be announced. Please check the workshop website for any updates.