Peeter Tinits

Peeter Tinits

data, history, science and humanities

Talks

2020

  1. Tinits, P. 2020. Talk. Mechanisms behind standardization of written Estonian 1880-1920. Hison 2020: Intra-Writer Variation in Historical Sociolinguistics. Erlangen, Saksamaa 01.04-03.04.2020 [Postponed due to March 2021 due to Covid-19]
  2. Tinits, P. 2020. Talk. Estonian language community ca. 1900: learning from linked metadata. 5th Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries. Rīga, Latvia, 17.03-20.03.2020 [Postponed unitl October 2020 due to Covid-19]
  3. Tinits, P. 2020. Talk. Mining texts at the National Library of Estonia: potential for learning and discovery. Symposium Digitizing Cultural Heritage and its Innovative Usage. Tallinn, Estonia 12.03.2020 Slides
  4. Tinits, P. 2020. Talk. The mechanisms of spelling standardization for written Estonian 1880-1920. 42nd International Conference of the German Linguistics Society (DGfS). The evolution of writing systems workshop. 04.03.-06.03.2020 Slides [Cancelled due to Covid-19]

2019

  1. Tinits, P. 2019. Talk. Estonian Language Community ca. 1900: Learning from Linked Metadata. 7th Estonian Digital Humanities Conference: Use of Digital Cultural Heritage in Research and Education. Tallinn, Estonia. 04.12-06.12.2019 Slides
  2. Tinits, P. 2019. Talk. Of Digital Humanities (Digihumanitaariast). Fall Conference for Teachers of Estonian (Eesti keele õpetajate sügiskonverents). Tartu, Estonia. 08.10.2019 Slides
  3. Tinits, P. 2019. Talk. Mining texts for social history: Research from spelling standardization to sustainability transitions. Helsinki Digital Humanities Seminar. Helsinki, Finland. 17.10.2019 Slides
  4. Tinits, P. 2019. Talk. Experiments in combining databases: Estonian language community at the end of the 19th century (Katsetused andmebaaside ühendamisel: eesti keele kogukond 19. saj lõpul). Estonian Language Institute Graduate Seminar ‘Language and Technology’. Taagepera loss, Estonia. 11.09-13.09.2019 Slides
  5. Tinits, P. 2019. Talk. A digital humanities approach to historical sociolinguistics of Estonian. Baltic Summer School of Digital Humanities. Riga, Latvia. 22.07-26.07.2019 Slides

2018

  1. Tinits, P. 2018. Talk. Integrating databases to study language history. 6th Estonian Digital Humanities Conference: Data, humanities & language: tools & applications. Tartu, Estonia. 26.09.2018-28.09.2018 Slides
  2. Tinits, P. 2018. Talk. The spread of standard language in Estonian community in 1880-1920 (Standardkirjakujude levik Eesti ühiskonnas 1880-1920). Changes and influences in language (Mõjutusi ja muutusi keeles) Narva-Jõesuu, Estonia. 13.09.2018-14.09.2018 Slides
  3. Tinits, P. & Hartmann, S. 2018. Poster. Social learning of knowledge representations in Wikipedia. Applications in Cultural Evolution: Arts, Languages, Technologies. Tartu, Estonia 05.06-08-06.2018 Poster
  4. Sobchuk, O. & Tinits, P. 2018. Poster. Films become more complex: three case studies. Applications in Cultural Evolution: Arts, Languages, Technologies. Tartu, Estonia 05.06-08-06.2018 Poster
  5. Tinits, P. 2018. Talk. Intelligence of the crowds in nature and culture. Semiosalong. Tartu, Estonia. 02.04.2018 Slides

2017

  1. Tinits, P. 2017. Talk. Of the replication crisis and its influence to research in a small community (Replikatsioonikriisist ja selle mõjust teadusele väikses kogukonnas). Theoretical Linguistics in Estonia V. Tartu, Estonia. 23.11.2017 - 24.11.2017 Slides
  2. Tinits, P. & Sobchuk, O. 2017. Talk. Digital humanities meets film history: is there progress in films? Digital Humanities in Estonia: Open licences, open content, open data: tools for developing digital humanities. Tartu, Estonia. 01.11.2017 – 03.11.2017 Slides
  3. Tinits, P. & Hartmann, S. 2017. Talk. The grammar of knowledge: Investigating the emergence of conventions in the evolution of Wikipedia. XLanS: Triggers of language change in the Language Sciences. Lyon, France. 11.10.2017 - 13.09.2017.
  4. Tinits, P. & Sobchuk, O. 2017. Talk. Cumulative cultural evolution in film production crews. Inaugural Cultural Evolution Society Conference. Jena, Germany. 13.09.2017 - 15.09.2017.
  5. Sobchuk, O.; Tinits, P.; Shelya, A. 2017. Poster. Cumulative cultural evolution of films: the case of anachronies. Annual Conference of European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association 2017 (EHBEA-17). Paris, France. 06.04.2017 - 08.04.2017.

2016

  1. Tinits, P. Talk. Of arbitrariness anno 2016 (Arbitraarsusest aastal 2016). XVIII Autumn School of Semiotics in Tartu - “Language-like”. Taevaskoja, Estonia. 05.10.2016-06.10.2016 Slides
  2. Nölle, J.; Tinits, P.; Hartmann, S.; Pleyer, M. 2016. Talk. Investigating the emergence of overspecification in an Iterated Learning setup. The Second Conference of the International Association for Cognitive Semiotics. Lublin, Poland. 20.06.2016-22.06.2016. Slides
  3. Hartmann S.; Tinits P.; Nölle J.; Hartmann T.; Pleyer M. 2016. Talk. Plain Simple Complex Structures: The Emergence Of Overspecification In An Iterated Learning Setup. The 11th International Conference on the Evolution of Language. Evolang XI 21.03.2016-24.03.2016

2015

  1. Tinits, P. 2015. Talk. Perspectives on language during language renovation in Estonia (Vaateid keelele keeleuuenduse ajal). Johannes Aavik’s 135th jubilee conference: “Language renovation and publishing”. (Johannes Aaviku 135. sünniaastapäevale pühendet konverents: „Keeleuuendus ja kirjastamine“). Kuressaare, Estonia. 04.12.2015-05.12.2015. Slides
  2. Sobchuk, O.; Shelya, A.; Tinits, P. 2015. Talk “Evolution within cinemetrics: A quantitative study of American mystery films.” Digital Humanities in Estonia A° 2015: Conference on translingual and transcultural digital humanities. Tartu, Estonia. 19.10.2015-21.10.2015.
  3. Hartmann, S.; Nölle, J.; Pleyer, M.; Tinits, P. 2015. Talk “Communicative Relevance and Morphological Complexity: An Iterated Learning Approach”. Protolang: Ways to (proto-) language. Rome, Italy. 24.09.2015 – 26.09.2015.
  4. Nölle, J.; Tinits, P.; Hartmann; S.; Pleyer, M. 2015. Talk “Experimental Approaches to the Evolution of Morphological Complexity”. 48th annual meeting of European Linguistics Society (Societas Linguistica Europaea). Leiden, Netherlands. 02.09.2015 – 05.09.2015. Slides
  5. Tinits, P. 2015. Oral mini-presentation. “How does one become a standard language culture? Reflections on language in historical contexts. Estonian language standardizations 1900- 1920”. 9th Summer School of Historical Sociolinguistics. Metochi, Greece. 01.08. – 08.08.2015 Slides
  6. Tinits, P. 2015. Talk. “Standard language culture and the case of Estonian (around 1880- 1920)”. 12th Summer School of Salos Grammar Academy (Academia Grammaticorum Salensis Duodecima). Rokiškis, Lithuania. 26.07. – 02.08.2015. Slides
  7. Nölle, J.; Tinits, P.; Hartmann, S & Pleyer, M. 2015. Talk. “People make things messier: How communicative pressures shape linguistic complexity”. The 13th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC-13). 20 - 25.07.2015.
  8. Tinits, P. 2015. Talk “Reduction in variation in written Estonian in 1880–1920”. The International Conference on Language Variation in Europe 8 (ICLaVE-8). Leipzig, Germany. 27.05.2015 – 29.05.2015. Slides
  9. Tinits, P. 2015. Talk “Language ideologies: A perspective from standardization”. Tracking down ideologies – workshop on the methodologies of language ideological research. Helsinki, Finland 27.02.2015.–28.2.2015. Slides

2014

  1. Tinits, P. 2014. Oral mini-presentation “Language Simplification in the Laboratory: A Behavioural Experiment for Linguistic Typology”. 8th Summer School in Historical Sociolinguistics. Kristiansand, Norway 27.07.2014 – 03.06.2014. Slides

2013

  1. Tinits, P. 2013. Talk “Bias for Language Simplicity in Composite Populations?“. 19th International Congress for Linguists (CIL-19). Geneva, Switzerland. 22.07.2013 – 27.07.2013. Slides
  2. Tinits, P. 2013. Talk “Application of Semiotic Experiments in Linguistic Research”. 8th Conference of Nordic Association of Semiotic Studies: Sign Evolution on Multiple Timescales (NASS-8). Aarhus, Denmark 29.05.2013 – 31.05.2013. Slides