Conference: “1st Annual Conference of Computational Literary Studies”

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Date:

01.06.2022 bis 02.06.2022

Place:

The conference will take place in Darmstadt. It is also possible to participate in the conference online.

Registration is possible until 15 May 2022.

 

Categories:

Conference

Contact:

Prof. Dr. Christof Schöch

Further Information:

1st Annual Conference of Computational Literary Studies
The Journal of Computational Literary Studies (JCLS) is an international, open access, peer-reviewed online journal dedicated to all aspects of computational approaches to Literary Studies. JCLS responds to the increasing differentiation of subfields within the Digital Humanities, an ongoing process in which Computational Literary Studies has already gained considerable maturity and visibility. The journal provides a publishing platform for works on the development, application, and critique of computational approaches to Literary Studies. (For more information about the journal, see our Mission Statement.) JCLS provides two publication tracks: A conference + journal track in which publication in the journal is complemented by an annual conference where accepted articles are presented. The conference associated with the first issue of JCLS take place on June 1-3, 2022 at Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany.

Conference Programme

Wednesday | June 1, 2022

1:00 p.m. to 2:15 p.m. | Session 1

  • Opening
  • Judith Brottrager*, Annina Stahl, Arda Arslan, Ulrik Brandes, Thomas Weitin: Modeling and Predicting Literary Reception – A Data-Rich Approach to Literary Historical Reception
  • Marijn Koolen, Julia Neugarten, Peter Boot*: ›This book makes me happy and sad and I love it‹ – A Rule-based Model for Extracting Reading Impact from English Book Reviews

2:45 p.m to 4:15 p.m. | Session 2

  • Leonard Konle*, Anton Ehrmanntraut, Thora Hagen, Fotis Jannidis, Simone Winko, Merten Kröncke: Modeling and Measuring Short Text Similarities – On the Multi-Dimensional Differences between German Poetry of Realism and Modernism
  • Chiara Palladino*, Farnoosh Shamsian, Tariq Yousef: Using Parallel Corpora to Evaluate Translations of Ancient Greek Literary Texts
  • Keli Du, Julia Dudar*, Christof Schöch: Evaluation of Measures of Distinctiveness – Classification of Literary Texts on the Basis of Distinctive Words

4:45 p.m. to 5:45 p.m. | Session 3

  • Almas Abdibayev*, Daniel Rockmore, Yohei Igarashi, Allen Riddell: Limericks and Computational Poetics: The Minimal Pairs Framework – Computational Challenges for Poetic Analysis and Synthesis
  • Melanie Andresen, Benjamin Krautter, Janis Pagel, Nils Reiter*: Who Knows What in German Drama? A Composite Annotation Scheme for Knowledge Transfer – Annotation, Evaluation, and Analysis

7:00 p.m. | joint dinner
 

Thursday | June 2, 2022

9:15 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. | Session 4

  • Anna Mareike Weimer*, Florian Barth, Tillmann Dönicke, Luisa Gödeke, Hanna Varachkina, Anke Holler, Caroline Sporleder, Benjamin Gittel: The (In-)Consistency of Literary Concepts – Formalising, Annotating and Detecting Literary Comment
  • Julian Schröter*, Keli Du: Validating Topic Modeling as a Method of Analyzing Sujet and Theme
  • Evelyn Gius*, Michael Vauth: Towards an Event Based Plot Model – A Computational Narratology Approach

11:15 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. | Session 5

  • Heejoung Shin*, Ted Underwood: Using Word2Vec to Measure the Positive Sentiment Towards the Term “Queer” in Virginia Woolf
  • Yvonne Völkl*, Sanja Saric, Martina Scholger: Topic Modeling for the Identification of Gender-specific Knowledge – Virtues and Vices in French and Spanish 18th Century Periodicals
  • Closing discussion and farewell
Topics: Digital Literary and Cultural Studies, Computational Literary Studies
Projects: Zeta and Company

Keywords: Text Mining, Dissemination and Community Building in the DH