2017 [ nach oben ]

• Schöch, C.: Topic Modeling Genre: An Exploration of French Classical and Enlightenment Drama. Digital Humanities Quarterly. (2017).
  [ BibTeX ]
   
  @article{schoch_topic_2017, author = {Schöch, Christof}, journal = {Digital Humanities Quarterly}, keywords = {cligs display}, title = {Topic {Modeling} {Genre}: {An} {Exploration} of {French} {Classical} and {Enlightenment} {Drama}}, year = 2017 }
• Jannidis, F., Kohle, H., Rehbein, M. hrsg: Digital Humanities: Eine Einführung. Metzler, Weimar (2017).
  [ Abstract ] [ BibTeX ]
   
  Computerbasierte Verfahren greifen in viele Bereiche der Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften ein und spielen eine zunehmende Rolle in der universitären Bildung. Dieser Band bietet eine fundierte Einführung in die grundlegenden Konzepte, Methoden und Werkzeuge der Digital Humanities. Sie präsentiert Grundlagen wie Digitalisierung, Aufbau von Datensammlungen, Datenmodellierung und XML. Darüber hinaus behandelt sie Anwendungsgebiete wie Digitale Edition, Information Retrieval, Netzwerkanalyse, Geographische Informationssysteme, Simulation ebenso weiterführende Aspekte wie die Rolle der Bibliotheken, Archive und Museen sowie rechtliche und ethische Fragen.
  @book{jannidis2017digital, abstract = {Computerbasierte Verfahren greifen in viele Bereiche der Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften ein und spielen eine zunehmende Rolle in der universitären Bildung. Dieser Band bietet eine fundierte Einführung in die grundlegenden Konzepte, Methoden und Werkzeuge der Digital Humanities. Sie präsentiert Grundlagen wie Digitalisierung, Aufbau von Datensammlungen, Datenmodellierung und XML. Darüber hinaus behandelt sie Anwendungsgebiete wie Digitale Edition, Information Retrieval, Netzwerkanalyse, Geographische Informationssysteme, Simulation ebenso weiterführende Aspekte wie die Rolle der Bibliotheken, Archive und Museen sowie rechtliche und ethische Fragen.}, address = {Weimar}, edition = 1, editor = {Jannidis, Fotis and Kohle, Hubertus and Rehbein, Malte}, keywords = {dh display}, publisher = {Metzler}, title = {Digital Humanities: Eine Einführung}, year = 2017 }

2016 [ nach oben ]

• Schöch, C., Schlör, D., Popp, S., Brunner, A., Henny, U., Calvo Tello, J.: Straight Talk! Automatic Recognition of Direct Speech in Nineteenth-Century French Novels. Digital Humanities 2016: Conference Abstracts. S. 346--353. Jagiellonian University and Paedagocial University, Kraków (2016).
  [ BibTeX ]
   
  @inproceedings{schoch_straight_2016, address = {Kraków}, author = {Schöch, Christof and Schlör, Daniel and Popp, Stefanie and Brunner, Annelen and Henny, Ulrike and Calvo Tello, José}, booktitle = {Digital {Humanities} 2016: {Conference} {Abstracts}}, keywords = {cligs display}, pages = {346--353}, publisher = {Jagiellonian University and Paedagocial University}, title = {Straight {Talk}! {Automatic} {Recognition} of {Direct} {Speech} in {Nineteenth}-{Century} {French} {Novels}}, year = 2016 }
• Schöch, C., Henny, U., Calvo, J., Schlör, D., Popp, S.: Topic, Genre, Text. Topics Im Textverlauf von Untergattungen Des Spanischen Und Hispanoamerikanischen Romans (1880-1930). Gehalten auf der , Leipzig (2016).
  [ BibTeX ]
   
  @inproceedings{schoch_topic_2016, address = {Leipzig}, author = {Sch{ö}ch, Christof and Henny, Ulrike and Calvo, Jos{é} and Schl{ö}r, Daniel and Popp, Stefanie}, keywords = {myown display sys:relevantfor:cophi cligs from:c.schoech}, pages = {235--238}, publisher = {{nisaba verlag}}, title = {Topic, {{Genre}}, {{Text}}. {{Topics}} Im {{Textverlauf}} von {{Untergattungen}} Des Spanischen Und Hispanoamerikanischen {{Romans}} (1880-1930)}, year = 2016 }
• Schöch, C., Henny, U., Calvo, J., Schlör, D., Popp, S.: Topic, Genre, Text. Topics Im Textverlauf von Untergattungen Des Spanischen Und Hispanoamerikanischen Romans (1880-1930). Gehalten auf der , Leipzig (2016).
  [ BibTeX ]
   
  @inproceedings{schoch_topic_2016, address = {Leipzig}, author = {Sch{ö}ch, Christof and Henny, Ulrike and Calvo, Jos{é} and Schl{ö}r, Daniel and Popp, Stefanie}, keywords = {cligs display myown}, pages = {235--238}, publisher = {{nisaba verlag}}, title = {Topic, {{Genre}}, {{Text}}. {{Topics}} Im {{Textverlauf}} von {{Untergattungen}} Des Spanischen Und Hispanoamerikanischen {{Romans}} (1880-1930)}, year = 2016 }
• Schöch, C.: Ein digitales Textformat für die Literaturwissenschaften. Die Richtlinien der Text Encoding Initiative und ihr Nutzen für Textedition und Textanalyse. Romanische Studien. 4 (2016).
  [ BibTeX ]
   
  @article{schoch_digitales_2016, author = {Schöch, Christof}, journal = {Romanische Studien}, keywords = {cligs display}, pages = 4, title = {Ein digitales {Textformat} für die {Literaturwissenschaften}. {Die} {Richtlinien} der {Text} {Encoding} {Initiative} und ihr {Nutzen} für {Textedition} und {Textanalyse}}, year = 2016 }
• Jannidis, F., Reger, I., Zehe, A., Becker, M., Hettinger, L., Hotho, A.: Analyzing Features for the Detection of Happy Endings in German Novels, http://arxiv.org/abs/1611.09028, (2016).
  [ Abstract ] [ BibTeX ]
   
  With regard to a computational representation of literary plot, this paper looks at the use of sentiment analysis for happy ending detection in German novels. Its focus lies on the investigation of previously proposed sentiment features in order to gain insight about the relevance of specific features on the one hand and the implications of their performance on the other hand. Therefore, we study various partitionings of novels, considering the highly variable concept of "ending". We also show that our approach, even though still rather simple, can potentially lead to substantial findings relevant to literary studies.
  @misc{jannidis2016analyzing, abstract = {With regard to a computational representation of literary plot, this paper looks at the use of sentiment analysis for happy ending detection in German novels. Its focus lies on the investigation of previously proposed sentiment features in order to gain insight about the relevance of specific features on the one hand and the implications of their performance on the other hand. Therefore, we study various partitionings of novels, considering the highly variable concept of "ending". We also show that our approach, even though still rather simple, can potentially lead to substantial findings relevant to literary studies.}, author = {Jannidis, Fotis and Reger, Isabella and Zehe, Albin and Becker, Martin and Hettinger, Lena and Hotho, Andreas}, keywords = {dh display}, note = {cite arxiv:1611.09028}, title = {Analyzing Features for the Detection of Happy Endings in German Novels}, year = 2016 }
• Evert, S., Proisl, T., Jannidis, F., Pielström, S., Reger, I., Schöch, C., Vitt, T.: Burrows Delta verstehen. DHd 2016 Modellierung, Vernetzung, Visualisierung. DHd/nisaba, Leipzig (2016).
  [ BibTeX ]
   
  @inproceedings{evert_burrows_2016, address = {Leipzig}, author = {Evert, Stefan and Proisl, Thomas and Jannidis, Fotis and Pielström, Steffen and Reger, Isabella and Schöch, Christof and Vitt, Thorsten}, booktitle = {{DHd} 2016 {Modellierung}, {Vernetzung}, {Visualisierung}}, keywords = {cophi display}, publisher = {DHd/nisaba}, title = {Burrows {Delta} verstehen}, year = 2016 }
• Evert, S., Jannidis, F., Proisl, T., Vitt, T., Schöch, C., Pielström, S., Reger, I.: Outliers or Key Profiles? Understanding Distance Measures for Authorship Attribution. Digital Humanities 2016: Conference Abstracts. S. 188--191. Jagiellonian University and Paedagocial University, Kraków (2016).
  [ BibTeX ]
   
  @inproceedings{evert_outliers_2016, address = {Kraków}, author = {Evert, Stefan and Jannidis, Fotis and Proisl, Thomas and Vitt, Thorsten and Schöch, Christof and Pielström, Steffen and Reger, Isabella}, booktitle = {Digital {Humanities} 2016: {Conference} {Abstracts}}, keywords = {cophi display}, pages = {188--191}, publisher = {Jagiellonian University and Paedagocial University}, title = {Outliers or {Key} {Profiles}? {Understanding} {Distance} {Measures} for {Authorship} {Attribution}}, year = 2016 }
• Calvo Tello, J.: Entendiendo Delta desde las Humanidades. Caracteres. Estudios culturales y críticos de la esfera digital. 5, 140--176 (2016).
  [ Abstract ] [ BibTeX ]
   
  Stylometry is one of the research areas in greater development within Digital Humanities. However, few studies have worked until recently with texts in Spanish and even less so from Spanish-speaking countries. The aim of this paper is to present in Spanish, and without prior statistical knowledge from the reader, one of the main methods used in stylometry, the measure of textual distance Burrows' Delta. This paper explains this measure using a very small corpus of proverbs and then checks the results in a corpus of Spanish novels. Both data and Python scripts are available to the community through GitHub, commented step by step so that you can play and visualize each step.
  @article{calvo_tello_entendiendo_2016, abstract = {Stylometry is one of the research areas in greater development within Digital Humanities. However, few studies have worked until recently with texts in Spanish and even less so from Spanish-speaking countries. The aim of this paper is to present in Spanish, and without prior statistical knowledge from the reader, one of the main methods used in stylometry, the measure of textual distance Burrows' Delta. This paper explains this measure using a very small corpus of proverbs and then checks the results in a corpus of Spanish novels. Both data and Python scripts are available to the community through GitHub, commented step by step so that you can play and visualize each step.}, author = {Calvo Tello, José}, journal = {Caracteres. Estudios culturales y críticos de la esfera digital}, keywords = {cligs display}, number = 1, pages = {140--176}, title = {Entendiendo {Delta} desde las {Humanidades}}, volume = 5, year = 2016 }

2015 [ nach oben ]

• Krug, M., Puppe, F., Jannidis, F., Macharowsky, L., Reger, I., Weimer, L.: Rule-based Coreference Resolution in German Historic Novels. Computational Linguistics for Literature (2015).
  [ BibTeX ]
   
  @inproceedings{krug2015rule, author = {Krug, Markus and Puppe, Frank and Jannidis, Fotis and Macharowsky, Luisa and Reger, Isabella and Weimer, Lukas}, booktitle = {Computational Linguistics for Literature}, keywords = {display}, title = {Rule-based Coreference Resolution in German Historic Novels}, year = 2015 }
• Jannidis, F., Pielström, S., Schöch, C., Vitt, T.: Improving Burrows’ Delta – An empirical evaluation of text distance measures. Book of Abstracts of the Digital Humanities Conference 2015. UWS (2015).
  [ Abstract ] [ BibTeX ]
   
  Since John Burrows first proposed Delta as a new stylometric measure (Burrows 2002), it has become one of the most robust distance measures for authorship attribution (Juola 2006, Stamatatos 2009, Koppel, Schler and Argamon 2009). It has been shown to render very useful results in different text genres (Hoover 2004a) and languages (Eder and Rybicki 2013). Nowadays, Delta is widely used not the least because there is the free stylo package in R (Eder, Kestemont and Rybicki 2013). There have been several proposals to improve Delta (Hoover 2004b, Argamon 2008, Eder, Kestemont and Rybicki 2013, Smith and Aldridge 2011). In the following, we report on a series of experiments to test these proposals using collections of novels in three languages. Our results will show that one of Hoover’s and one of Argamon’s measures show good results, but are outperformed in general by Burrows’ Delta and by Eder’s Delta. The modification of Delta proposed by Smith and Aldridge, on the other hand, shows a remarkable improvement of the results in all languages and has the advantage of providing a stable increase of performance up to a specific point, unlike the other measures which are very sensitive to the amount of most frequent words (mfw) used. These results also allow to discuss some of the theoretical assumptions for the success of these measures, even if we are still far away of providing a “compelling theoretical justification” (Hoover 2005) for their success.
  @inproceedings{jannidis2015improving, abstract = {Since John Burrows first proposed Delta as a new stylometric measure (Burrows 2002), it has become one of the most robust distance measures for authorship attribution (Juola 2006, Stamatatos 2009, Koppel, Schler and Argamon 2009). It has been shown to render very useful results in different text genres (Hoover 2004a) and languages (Eder and Rybicki 2013). Nowadays, Delta is widely used not the least because there is the free stylo package in R (Eder, Kestemont and Rybicki 2013). There have been several proposals to improve Delta (Hoover 2004b, Argamon 2008, Eder, Kestemont and Rybicki 2013, Smith and Aldridge 2011). In the following, we report on a series of experiments to test these proposals using collections of novels in three languages. Our results will show that one of Hoover’s and one of Argamon’s measures show good results, but are outperformed in general by Burrows’ Delta and by Eder’s Delta. The modification of Delta proposed by Smith and Aldridge, on the other hand, shows a remarkable improvement of the results in all languages and has the advantage of providing a stable increase of performance up to a specific point, unlike the other measures which are very sensitive to the amount of most frequent words (mfw) used. These results also allow to discuss some of the theoretical assumptions for the success of these measures, even if we are still far away of providing a “compelling theoretical justification” (Hoover 2005) for their success.}, author = {Jannidis, Fotis and Pielström, Steffen and Schöch, Christof and Vitt, Thorsten}, booktitle = {Book of Abstracts of the Digital Humanities Conference 2015}, keywords = {display myown}, organization = {ADHO}, publisher = {UWS}, title = {Improving Burrows’ Delta – An empirical evaluation of text distance measures}, year = 2015 }
• Herrmann, J.B., van Dalen-Oskam, K., Schöch, C.: Revisiting Style, a Key Concept in Literary Studies. Journal of Literary Theory. 9, 25-52 (2015).
  [ Abstract ] [ BibTeX ]
   
  Language and literary studies have studied style for centuries, and even since the advent of ›stylistics‹ as a discipline at the beginning of the twentieth century, definitions of ›style‹ have varied heavily across time, space and fields. Today, with increasingly large collections of literary texts being made available in digital form, computational approaches to literary style are proliferating. New methods from disciplines such as corpus linguistics and computer science are being adopted and adapted in interrelated fields such as computational stylistics and corpus stylistics, and are facilitating new approaches to literary style. The relation between definitions of style in established linguistic or literary stylistics, and definitions of style in computational or corpus stylistics has not, however, been systematically assessed. This contribution aims to respond to the need to redefine style in the light of this new situation and to establish a clearer perception of both the overlap and the boundaries between ›mainstream‹ and ›computational‹ and/or ›empirical‹ literary stylistics. While stylistic studies of non-literary texts are currently flourishing, our contribution deliberately centers on those approaches relevant to ›literary stylistics‹. It concludes by proposing an operational definition of style that we hope can act as a common ground for diverse approaches to literary style, fostering transdisciplinary research. The focus of this contribution is on literary style in linguistics and literary studies (rather than in art history, musicology or fashion), on textual aspects of style (rather than production- or reception-oriented theories of style), and on a descriptive perspective (rather than a prescriptive or didactic one). Even within these limits, however, it appears necessary to build on a broad understanding of the various perspectives on style that have been adopted at different times and in different traditions. For this reason, the contribution first traces the development of the notion of style in three different traditions, those of German, Dutch and French language and literary studies. Despite the numerous links between each other, and between each of them to the British and American traditions, these three traditions each have their proper dynamics, especially with regard to the convergence and/or confrontation between mainstream and computational stylistics. For reasons of space and coherence, the contribution is limited to theoretical developments occurring since 1945. The contribution begins by briefly outlining the range of definitions of style that can be encountered across traditions today: style as revealing a higher-order aesthetic value, as the holistic ›gestalt‹ of single texts, as an expression of the individuality of an author, as an artifact presupposing choice among alternatives, as a deviation from a norm or reference, or as any formal property of a text. The contribution then traces the development of definitions of style in each of the three traditions mentioned, with the aim of giving a concise account of how, in each tradition, definitions of style have evolved over time, with special regard to the way such definitions relate to empirical, quantitative or otherwise computational approaches to style in literary texts. It will become apparent how, in each of the three traditions, foundational texts continue to influence current discussions on literary style, but also how stylistics has continuously reacted to broader developments in cultural and literary theory, and how empirical, quantitative or computational approaches have long ­existed, usually in parallel to or at the margins of mainstream stylistics. The review will also reflect the lines of discussion around style as a property of literary texts – or of any textual entity in general. The perspective on three stylistic traditions is accompanied by a more systematic perspective. The rationale is to work towards a common ground for literary scholars and linguists when talking about (literary) style, across traditions of stylistics, with respect for established definitions of style, but also in light of the digital paradigm. Here, we first show to what extent, at similar or different moments in time, the three traditions have developed comparable positions on style, and which definitions out of the range of possible definitions have been proposed or promoted by which authors in each of the three traditions. On the basis of this synthesis, we then conclude by proposing an operational definition of style that is an attempt to provide a common ground for both mainstream and computational literary stylistics. This definition is discussed in some detail in order to explain not only what is meant by each term in the definition, but also how it relates to computational analyses of style – and how this definition aims to avoid some of the pitfalls that can be perceived in earlier definitions of style. Our definition, we hope, will be put to use by a new generation of computational, quantitative, and empirical studies of style in literary texts.
  @article{noauthororeditor2015revisiting, abstract = {Language and literary studies have studied style for centuries, and even since the advent of ›stylistics‹ as a discipline at the beginning of the twentieth century, definitions of ›style‹ have varied heavily across time, space and fields. Today, with increasingly large collections of literary texts being made available in digital form, computational approaches to literary style are proliferating. New methods from disciplines such as corpus linguistics and computer science are being adopted and adapted in interrelated fields such as computational stylistics and corpus stylistics, and are facilitating new approaches to literary style. The relation between definitions of style in established linguistic or literary stylistics, and definitions of style in computational or corpus stylistics has not, however, been systematically assessed. This contribution aims to respond to the need to redefine style in the light of this new situation and to establish a clearer perception of both the overlap and the boundaries between ›mainstream‹ and ›computational‹ and/or ›empirical‹ literary stylistics. While stylistic studies of non-literary texts are currently flourishing, our contribution deliberately centers on those approaches relevant to ›literary stylistics‹. It concludes by proposing an operational definition of style that we hope can act as a common ground for diverse approaches to literary style, fostering transdisciplinary research. The focus of this contribution is on literary style in linguistics and literary studies (rather than in art history, musicology or fashion), on textual aspects of style (rather than production- or reception-oriented theories of style), and on a descriptive perspective (rather than a prescriptive or didactic one). Even within these limits, however, it appears necessary to build on a broad understanding of the various perspectives on style that have been adopted at different times and in different traditions. For this reason, the contribution first traces the development of the notion of style in three different traditions, those of German, Dutch and French language and literary studies. Despite the numerous links between each other, and between each of them to the British and American traditions, these three traditions each have their proper dynamics, especially with regard to the convergence and/or confrontation between mainstream and computational stylistics. For reasons of space and coherence, the contribution is limited to theoretical developments occurring since 1945. The contribution begins by briefly outlining the range of definitions of style that can be encountered across traditions today: style as revealing a higher-order aesthetic value, as the holistic ›gestalt‹ of single texts, as an expression of the individuality of an author, as an artifact presupposing choice among alternatives, as a deviation from a norm or reference, or as any formal property of a text. The contribution then traces the development of definitions of style in each of the three traditions mentioned, with the aim of giving a concise account of how, in each tradition, definitions of style have evolved over time, with special regard to the way such definitions relate to empirical, quantitative or otherwise computational approaches to style in literary texts. It will become apparent how, in each of the three traditions, foundational texts continue to influence current discussions on literary style, but also how stylistics has continuously reacted to broader developments in cultural and literary theory, and how empirical, quantitative or computational approaches have long ­existed, usually in parallel to or at the margins of mainstream stylistics. The review will also reflect the lines of discussion around style as a property of literary texts – or of any textual entity in general. The perspective on three stylistic traditions is accompanied by a more systematic perspective. The rationale is to work towards a common ground for literary scholars and linguists when talking about (literary) style, across traditions of stylistics, with respect for established definitions of style, but also in light of the digital paradigm. Here, we first show to what extent, at similar or different moments in time, the three traditions have developed comparable positions on style, and which definitions out of the range of possible definitions have been proposed or promoted by which authors in each of the three traditions. On the basis of this synthesis, we then conclude by proposing an operational definition of style that is an attempt to provide a common ground for both mainstream and computational literary stylistics. This definition is discussed in some detail in order to explain not only what is meant by each term in the definition, but also how it relates to computational analyses of style – and how this definition aims to avoid some of the pitfalls that can be perceived in earlier definitions of style. Our definition, we hope, will be put to use by a new generation of computational, quantitative, and empirical studies of style in literary texts.}, author = {Herrmann, J. Berenike and van Dalen-Oskam, Karina and Schöch, Christof}, journal = {Journal of Literary Theory}, keywords = {display myown style}, number = 1, pages = {25-52}, title = {Revisiting Style, a Key Concept in Literary Studies}, volume = 9, year = 2015 }
• Evert, S., Proisl, T., Jannidis, F., Pielström, S., Schöch, C., Vitt, T.: Towards a better understanding of Burrows’s Delta in literary authorship attribution. Fourth Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Literature, at NAACL HLT 2015 (2015).
  [ BibTeX ]
   
  @inproceedings{evert2015towards, author = {Evert, Stefan and Proisl, Thomas and Jannidis, Fotis and Pielstr{ö}m, Steffen and Sch{ö}ch, Christof and Vitt, Thorsten}, booktitle = {Fourth Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Literature, at NAACL HLT 2015}, keywords = {display}, title = {Towards a better understanding of Burrows’s Delta in literary authorship attribution}, year = 2015 }

2014 [ nach oben ]

• Jannidis, F.: Der Autor ganz nah – Autorstil in Stilistik und Stilometrie. Gehalten auf der , Berlin (2014).
  [ BibTeX ]
   
  @inbook{jannidis2014autor, address = {Berlin}, author = {Jannidis, Fotis}, editor = {Schaffrick, Matthias and Willand, Marcus}, keywords = {display}, pages = {169-195}, publisher = {de Gruyter}, title = {Der Autor ganz nah – Autorstil in Stilistik und Stilometrie}, volume = {Theorien und Praktiken der Autorschaft}, year = 2014 }

2013 [ nach oben ]

• Schöch, C., Jannidis, F.: Quantitative Text Analysis for Literary History-Report on a DARIAH-DE Expert Workshop. DARIAH-DE Working Papers. (2013).
  [ Abstract ] [ BibTeX ]
   
  The workshop on Quantitative Text Analysis for Literary History was the first in a series of DARIAH-DE expert workshops and took place from November 22 to 23 at the University of Würzburg, Germany. It was organized by Fotis Jannidis and Christof Schöch of the Department for Literary Computing, University of Würzburg, and brought together experts in the computational analysis of collections of literary texts from France, Germany, Poland and the US. This report first briefly provides some context on the DARIAH expert workshops and introduces the specific goals of the workshop reported on here. Then, it summarizes the major issues raised by the participants in their initial statements and debated in the ensuing discussions. Finally, it describes the key results from the workshop, which include advances in the areas of data, tools and methods for quantitative text analysis.
  @article{schoch2013quantitative, abstract = {The workshop on Quantitative Text Analysis for Literary History was the first in a series of DARIAH-DE expert workshops and took place from November 22 to 23 at the University of Würzburg, Germany. It was organized by Fotis Jannidis and Christof Schöch of the Department for Literary Computing, University of Würzburg, and brought together experts in the computational analysis of collections of literary texts from France, Germany, Poland and the US. This report first briefly provides some context on the DARIAH expert workshops and introduces the specific goals of the workshop reported on here. Then, it summarizes the major issues raised by the participants in their initial statements and debated in the ensuing discussions. Finally, it describes the key results from the workshop, which include advances in the areas of data, tools and methods for quantitative text analysis.}, author = {Schöch, Christof and Jannidis, Fotis}, journal = {DARIAH-DE Working Papers}, keywords = {display}, number = 2, title = {Quantitative Text Analysis for Literary History-Report on a DARIAH-DE Expert Workshop}, year = 2013 }