Journal of Computational Literary Studies has the most beautiful journal design — and such a great team behind it! Happy and honoured to be published here: bsky.app/profile/jcls... Many thanks to everyone involved! 💙

@maria-lev.bsky.social’s "Computational Analysis of Literary Communities. Event-Based Social Network Study of St. Petersburg 1999-2019" is now live in the "Journal of Computational Literary Studies" 4(1) 👉 doi.org/10.48694/jcl...

🚨 News alert! Want to publish a #CLS journal article in < 8 months with #double-blind #PeerReview, a preprint at the conference, open peer review, code review, and beautiful design? We're excited to announce that the first article from this year's JCLS conference track has just been published! 🚀

The very first #DraCorSummit kicked off today 🎭 a full week dedicated to computational drama analysis! We’re excited to be a partner of this event. Selected papers will appear in a special issue on computational drama analysis in #JCLS (2026). Stay tuned! #CLS #DramaAnalysis #DraCor @dracor.org

✨ We're kicking off the #DraCorSummit 2025 in Berlin today! 5 days of digital drama analysis, enhancing #DraCor, and celebrating #OpenScience with participants from around the world at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social. Programme: summit.dracor.org @temporal-communities.de @unipotsdam.bsky.social

The registration for the #DraCor Summit in Berlin is open until 20 August. Register soon! (You may also participate in some parts of the programme online.) #DH #CLS #ClassicsBluesky #LitWiss @temporal-communities.de @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social @unipotsdam.bsky.social @dhpotsdam.bsky.social

#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

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

#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

#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

#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

#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

#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" 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

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 […]

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

#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

#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

#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

As expected: we need more diverse sources to study canonicity and world literature. Great work! #dh2025

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

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?"

Today at #DH2025, my dear colleague, @jbrottrager.bsky.social, presents her recently completed Ph.D. project, "The Canon and 'The Great Unread,'" which examines #English- and #German-language fiction diachronically. #PhDone #Canonization #ComparativeLiteraryStudies #CLS #Canon #GreatUnread #Fiction

So good to see their #CLS work on time analysis of English fiction of the modernist era being part of #DH2025!!!

#DH2025: At the mini conference "The Times they are a-changing" on temporal data in #DH, our very own Huijun Mao presents their work on "Temporal Tensions: Mapping Past, Present, and Future in Modernist Literature" - focusing on #MiddleReading time in "To the Lighthouse" by Virginia Woolf. #CLS

#DH2025: #CLS is everywhere! 🤩 Another exciting talk at the mini conference by Julia Röttgermann, Keli Du et al. on "Measuring Time. #DistinctiveWords as a Marker for Temporal Change in #Subgenres of the #FrenchNovel"

🌟Today in Lisbon!!🌟 @sabinelang.bsky.social, @anastasiaglawion.bsky.social, and @nfdykes.bsky.social represent DHSS at #DH2025 with a mini-conference on the temporal dimension of data! Best of luck to our team!

So excited about our miniconference at #DH2025

I am looking forward to learning about current approaches in the field of Neo-Latin Studies at the #IANLS2025 this week. I will provide insights into NeoLatDraCor on Tuesday: github.com/dracor-org/n... @ianls.bsky.social @digneolatin.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy #DraCor #DH #Drama #Neo-Latin

There's still time to apply and join us as an MA student! Find all necessary info here: MA Digital Humanities - Department of Digital Humanities and Social Studies share.google/KJpPFgyIE8kn...

#DH2025: Amazing #CLS work at the mini conference "The times they are a-changing". @jbrottrager.bsky.social presents her #Canonisation Score and explains how to use temporal filtering in network analysis of literary texts. Oh, and those are time-sensitive networks, not Dune sandworms. 🐛

Our very own Nathan Dykes will present FlexiConc, a tool for reproducible #concordance analysis. He will show how water is discussed in German parliamentary debates over time using sentence embeddings 🤩 #DH2025 @dhssfau.bsky.social @nfdykes.bsky.social @schtepf.bsky.social @michamahlberg.bsky.social

Starting our sneak peak at the #Miniconference on #TemporalData! Panel 1: @mikcil.bsky.social Michele Ciletti uses NER & network analysis to trace shifting narratives and growing ties between the military & locals in The Foggia Occupator (1945–46), a US military newspaper in postwar Italy. #DH2025

#dh2025: My #highlight of the first day was @jbrottrager.bsky.social talking about her recently completed and defended Ph.D. thesis, "Relating the Unread." Congratulations again! 🥳 Your book will be the must-read in literary #canonization studies - don't make us wait too long! #cls

Does anyone remember the amazing Italian example she showed, where the letter "A" was illustrated using only "a"s in a particular order within a literary text?

#DH2025: Super exciting #CLS work by Enrica Bruno (University of Bologna) on "Breaking the Line: Towards a Semantic Framework for Non-Linear Literary Phenomena".

#DH2025: Fascinating #CLS work on mapping fictional #toponyms in #CzechLiterature by Richard Změlík (Palacký University Olomouc). Check it out: www.korpusprozy.com/03_ARBES/Car...

An updated #DraCor with blackjack and enhanced API 😎 Just in time for #DH2025 👌