Publications (Since 2024)

Conference Publications

GovText: 142 Billion Tokens Extracted from Government Documents
Akshay Mehta, Albert Du, Anjali Gopal, Ying-Hsiang Huang, Benjamin C.G. Lee & Kyle Deeds
ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) 2026
DOI

Integrating Visual and Textual Inputs for Searching Large-Scale Map Collections with CLIP
Jamie Mahowald & Benjamin C.G. Lee
Computational Humanities Research Conference (CHR) 2024
DOI, ArXiv
Best Long Paper

Journal Publications

Digital Collections Explorer: An Open-Source, Multimodal Viewer for Searching Digital Collections
Ying-Hsiang Huang & Benjamin C.G. Lee
Computational Humanities Research Journal
DOI, ArXiv

Building and Deploying the Digital Humanities Quarterly Recommender System
Haining Wang, Joel Lee, John Walsh, Julia Flanders & Benjamin C.G. Lee
Code4Lib Journal, Issue 61, 2025
URL

Powell.pps: Close & Distant Reading of Primary Sources in Web Archives
Trevor Owens, Benjamin C.G. Lee & Jonah Estess
Internet Histories
DOI, SocArXiv

A Fully-Searchable Multimodal Dataset of the Illustrated London News, 1842-1890
Thomas Smits, Paul Fyfe, Bethany Warner & Benjamin C.G. Lee
Journal of Open Humanities Data (2025)
DOI

The “Collections as ML Data” Checklist for Machine Learning and Cultural Heritage
Benjamin C.G. Lee
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), Volume 76, Issue 2 (2025)
Special Issue: Conceptual Models of the Sociotechnical
DOI, ArXiv

White Papers

AI and the Future of Holocaust Research & Memory
Benjamin C.G. Lee, Robert Ehrenreich, Todd Presner, Michael Haley Goldman, Jana Keck, Victoria Grace Richardson-Walden, Abigail Potter, Alexis Lerner, Andrew Dean, Anna Bonazzi, Ulysses Pascal, Aileen Tang, Sophia Toubian & Alex Wasdahl
DOI

Workshop Papers

Past Meets Future: Human-AI Interaction for Digital History and Cultural Heritage
Kurt Luther, Vikram Mohanty, Benjamin C.G. Lee & Ioanna Lykourentzou
29th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) 2024
DOI

Demo Papers

GovScape: A Public Multimodal Search System for 70 Million Pages of Government PDFs
Ying-Hsiang Huang, Claire Gong, Shreya Shaji, Alison Yan, Leslie Harka, Albert Du, Anjali Gopal, Samuel Klein, Shannon Shen, Mark Phillips, Trevor Owens, Kyle Deeds & Benjamin C.G. Lee
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations (ACL) 2026
DOI, ArXiv, Website

Retrieval-Augmented Search for Large-Scale Map Collections with ColPali
Jamie Mahowald & Benjamin C.G. Lee
ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR) 2026
DOI, ArXiv

Pre-prints

A Use Case Lens on Digital Cultural Heritage
Gustavo Candela, Milena Dobreva, Henk Alkemade, Olga Holownia, Mahendra Mahey, Sarah Ames, Karen Renaud, Ines Vodopivec, Benjamin C.G. Lee, Thomas Padilla, Steven Claeyssens, Isto Huvila & Beth Knazook
ArXiv

Accountability, Integrity: AI Policy in Public Libraries
Kathryn FitzGerald & Benjamin C.G. Lee
SocArXiv