September 29, 2025, by Brigitte Nerlich

Understanding computational hermeneutics: Making meaning between the past and the present

A large group of scholars led by Cody Kommers and Drew Hemment at the Alan Turing Institute recently published a paper on ‘computational hermeneutics’. They mention Hans-Georg Gadamer and Wilhelm Dilthey, two godfathers of hermeneutics, and talk about situated meaning, ambiguity and the plurality of meaning. How intriguing, I thought.

The paper brought back memories of my past work on meaning and interpretation in general linguistics and the history of linguistics. It made me wonder whether modern thinking about computational hermeneutics and past thinking about context and meaning could inspire each other even more than one might expect from the paper?

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