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Luca Giovannini presenting at DH2025

#DH2025: Last session before the keynote, @lucagiovannini.bsky.social presents his approach to operationalizing dramatic texts. Tracing key components of plays from #Aristotle to Russian #Formalism to modern literary theory, he investigates how to #operationalize plays using #vectorization. 🎭 #drama

Luca presenting his PhD thesis as one of the three exhibits to Operationalizing Dramatic Texts

In his "Modest Proposal for Operationalizing Dramatic Texts", @lucagiovannini.bsky.social presents 3 exhibits, including his recently completed PhD thesis on the "Formal Development of Early Modern European Drama". Congratulations! 🎓 #PhDone #CLS #Drama #Operationalization

Luca presenting at the DH2025

What are the key components of a #play? 🎭
#DH2025: @lucagiovannini.bsky.social takes us on a tour through centuries of thinking from #Aristotle’s #Poetics, through Russian formalism, to modern literary theory and unpacks the question offering a fresh perspective.
#drama #operationalization #CLS

Artjoms presenting their study of meter at DH2025

Their main finding: Mind the Meter

#DH2025: What are we really measuring when we count words? @artjomshl.bsky.social, @philaut.bsky.social & @plechac.bsky.social show how different meters distinctly shape seemingly unrelated feature distributions across Czech, German & Russian #poetry. Their main finding: Mind the meter! #CLS

Steffen Pielström presents FAIRness analysis of SPP-CLS projects at DH2025

#DH2025: Steffen Pielström, Kerstin Jung & Patrick Helling put the SPP #CLS projects to the test, examining their level of #FAIRness as a case study to assess how equal automated FAIRness tests are.
#FAIR #FAIRprinciples

Xiaoyan Yang presenting their pipeline at DH2025

#DH2025: Xiaoyan Yang & @fpianz.bsky.social present a #multilingual #CLS pipeline comparing #English & #Chinese #fanfiction. Using #BookNLP, #ARMCC & #LLMs, they address #CoreferenceResolution, dialogue speaker & character feature extraction 🔥 hot topics at this year's conference. 📚🌏

Gephi Lite is great, it allows for a direct import of character network data from #DraCor, included in our "Tools" tab. Try the German "Hamlet" translation (Schlegel/Tieck edition 1843/44): dracor.org/id/gersh0000...

(Especially love the "Guess settings" option for ForceAtlas2 layouting!)

#DH2025

Axel Pichler presenting at DH2025

#DH2025: With their research question, Pichler & @janispagel.bsky.social hit the nail on the head 🔨:
Can #LLMs apply redefined literary concepts in the prompt-and-predict paradigm (Liu et al. 2023)?
#CLS #concepts #plasticity

Anastasia and Dhara presenting at #DH2025

#DH2025: Another #alignment project in #CLS. @anastasiaglawion.bsky.social and Dhara Lechner of @dhssfau.bsky.social present their work on "Tracing #Transformation: editorial shifts in the Grimm brothers’ tales".
#FairyTales #German-language #fiction

Gender of animal characters in children’s books Read enough children’s books with anthropomorphic animals and you might notice that some animals tend towards a gender like a male frog or a female cat. For the Pudding, Melanie Walsh, with R…

"Gender of animal characters in children’s books"

flowingdata.com/2025/07/16/g...

(via @flowingdata.com)

"European Literary Bibliography: Tool for Research on Bibliographical Data on Literature and Literary Science" presented by Vojtěch Malínek & colleagues. Totally geeking out on MARC21, MARC-JSON-LD, VIAF, &c. 📚❤️‼️
#DH2025

Great talk by @fredner.org about jeopardy and the formation of the literary canon at #DH2025! A delight to have a year with him @urichmond.bsky.social in data science. Please congratulate him on his new @oregonstate.edu job as Assistant Professor in digital humanities! 🥳👏🎉

First up at 9AM in room B203: Jessica Monaco & Mark Algee-Hewitt analyze generic mixing in 19th-century #English-language #Gothic fiction. A diachronic take on literary transformation with transformer models. #DH2025 #CLS

#DH2025: Today (07/17), two more LitLab talks take on 19th & 20th century #English fiction through transformers & #LLMs. Stay tuned! 🔍📚💻
#CLS #CulturalAnalytics #Narratology #LiteraryComputing

#DH2025: Later today, at 2PM in room Aud B3: @guhrs.bsky.social, Huijun Mao & ‪@alexsherman.bsky.social‬ tackle #SceneSegmentation in 20th-c US #Romance novels. Fine-tuning transformers vs. prompting #LLMs — who wins? #CLS #DigitalHumanities #Scenes #LiteraryComputing

Logo of the COMUTE project.

Just now #DH2025, Sandra Balck (@traed.bsky.social) and Sascha Heße presenting the COMUTE project (Collation of Multilingual Text), run jointly by colleagues @unihalle.bsky.social @unipotsdam.bsky.social @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social.

www.comute-project.de/en/index.html

Neat idea by Jessica Monaco and Mark Algee-Hewitt, at #DH2025, on subgenre mixture within the Gothic novel:

First, train a model to classify text segments into one of eight genres, not including the Gothic (!).

Then, ask the model to classify segments from Gothic novels into those genres in […]

Slide from the presentation.

Macro-visualisation of the alignment between Melville's "Moby Dick" and the first German translation from 1927. Omissions in translations are one of the things that can be made visible through the work of the COMUTE project. We're experimenting with all kinds of language pairs.

#DH2025

Using aspect-based #SentimentAnalysis and #VSMs, they explore how angst and fluff in #fanfiction based on #GreekMyth reshape the reception of the #ClassicalCanon … because sometimes readers just want their Greek gods having more drama, sex, and tragedy... #FanStudies #CLS

Julia Neugarten presenting at DH2025

#DH2025: @julianeugarten.bsky.social & Thijs Meijerink present their work titled “Giddy Gods and Happy Heroes: Detecting #Character-Emotions in #Fanfiction about #GreekMyth with #VectorSpaceModels”.

Don't we all love annotation and especially annotating with @catma.bsky.social? 🐈
#CLS #CATMA #Annotation

Allison Anne Keith and Antonio Rojas Castro present at DH2025

#DH2025: #CLS is everywhere! In SP-09, Allison Anne Keith, Antonio Rojas Castro, et al. present their approach to using #ComputationalMethods to examine, how annotated #gracioso characters can help us understand their structural and narrative role in #Calderón's plays.
#Spanish #drama #annotation

Hallucination Rates for the study of speaker attribution in Middlemarch

Hallucination Type in the study of speaker attribution in Middlemarch

#DH2025: So exciting to see #hallucination rates calculated in #CLS with #LLMs. Great work by @sgriebel.bsky.social, Layne-Worthey, et al. on the ongoing challenge of #CharacterAttribution in English fiction titled "Strictly Speaking: Character Attribution in Literary Dialogue with Language Models"

I made a #DH2025 feed that looks for posts that include the hashtag and posts from/about @dh2025lisbon.bsky.social. You can press the 📌 for easy access.

Awesome and well-deserved! ADHO's 2026 Zampolli Prize goes to stylo and the Computational Stylistics group!!!

Learn more about the group and about stylo on their website: https://computationalstylistics.github.io/

#DH2025 @adho #Zampolli #stylo #DigitalHumanities

Federico Pianzola is presenting the GOLEM database and the different aspects of modeling character @fpianz.bsky.social #dh2025

Slide showing the geographic distribution of canonical literary works retrieved from wikidata

As expected: we need more diverse sources to study canonicity and world literature.

Great work!

#dh2025

First slide of our presentation showing the title, authors and their affiliation.

Slides from our #DH2025 presentation:

"Wikipedia as an Echo Chamber of Canonicity: ›1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die‹"

bit.ly/1001echo

#DigitalHumanities @viktor.im @temporal-communities.de @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social

Using #doc2vec #embeddings and #TextSimilarity, she analyzes how canonized works influence later literary production while highlighting texts that have been forgotten, marginalized, or overlooked.
#Canon vs. #Counter-canon becomes a scale shaped by retrospective, cultural, and temporal markers. #CLS

Judith presenting her corpus workflow

Exiting for all studying canonization processes, she presents her numerical canonization score, which measures and compares canonicity across English and German literary corpora. She asks, "What population of texts is actually suitable for studying canonization as a literary-historical phenomenon?"