At #Germanistentag 2025's panel "Network as Method", @haimostiemer.bsky.social presented the ChiA project, developed at @fortextlab.bsky.social in collaboration with @evelyngius.bsky.social. #germanistik #CLS #fortextlab @tu-braunschweig.de (1/5)

Good research needs strong scientific communities! That's why earlier this week, fortext lab members @evelyngius.bsky.social, Stefanie Messner and @julianhaeussler.bsky.social attended the CRETA-Werkstatt. A gathering of the Centre for Reflected Text Analysis (@cretaverein.bsky.social). (1/4)

We are in the university campus quiz category. Who knows where the PLANS project met yesterday? In PLANS we explore text phenomena relevant for action and tackle CLS challenges like segmentation. #fortext #CLS #DigitalHumanities #DH #CompLit (1/3)

A lot has happened over the summer break. One highlight: the white paper Doing AI Differently from the Alan Turing Institute – co-authored by @EvelynGius along with 50+ international colleagues. Core message: We need a fundamental shift in AI development! 👉 www.turing.ac.uk/news/publica... (1/4)

We’ve recently started sharing teaching concepts in the forTEXT issue “Text Annotation in Higher Education.” Now we’re on the lookout for more German-language perspectives on how it’s taught, practiced, and conceptualized. Our call for papers is open again 👉 journal.fortext.org/site/cfp (1/3)

The narratological study of fairy tales has a long tradition - and it continues to offer fascinating insights today. This semester we explored them computationally with students, focusing on how characters shape narrative structures. #DigitalHumanities #DHinTeaching #AcademicTeaching #DHMakes (1/4)

We’re excited to release the second article in our forTEXT issue on text annotation in higher education! Discover how students dive into 1950s love letters, transcribing and annotating them with TEI-XML. 👉 doi.org/10.48694/for... (1/3)

How do we incorporate measurement theory into the Digital Humanities? This was the leading question in this term’s seminar, “Measurement across the Sciences”, led by @EvelynGius. Read on to find out more. (1/4)

🎉 We’re excited to kick things off! We’re launching SemEval-2026 Task 4: Narrative Story Similarity and Narrative Representation Learning. This is a joint effort by @hanshatzel.bsky.social (University of Hamburg) and the fortext lab, as part of the PLANS project, in collaboration with Toloka AI.

The Final Countdown... ⏰

Hey everyone! Final reminder: Got 10–15 minutes? Help us make CATMA even better by taking our short, anonymous survey! It’s open to all experience levels and only takes a little of your time. Deadline: 31.07 👉 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Thanks a lot! #CATMA #Survey #DigitalHumanities

We’ve been spotlighting DH resources lately — now let’s take a closer look at three departments hosting Digital Humanities at German universities. (1/5)

Last week, our PLANS project presented at the Digital Humanities Conference in Lisbon 🇵🇹 - @haimostiemer.bsky.social‬ and @hanshatzel.bsky.social‬ shared our approach to thematic text analysis based on semantic verb classes in German literary texts. 🧵👇 (1/4)

Heyyy everyone! Don’t forget to take part in our short, anonymous 10-25 min. CATMA survey to help us improve our tool. Users of all experience levels are welcome! Feel free to share! 👉 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Thanks very much to everyone who participates! #CATMA #Survey #DigitalHumanities

Last week @fortextlab.bsky.social members @evelyngius.bsky.social and @julianhaeussler.bsky.social, as well as fortext lab alum @guhrs.bsky.social, spend two intense and insightful days at #CCLS2025 in beautiful Krakow, Poland. Looking forward to the future of #CLS! @jcls-io.bsky.social

As a follow-up to our last post on DH resource platforms, here are more DH centers that may be helpful for your research and networking. We’re curious to know — which DH centers do you know or work with? (1/7)

We’d love your input! Help us improve CATMA by taking our short, anonymous survey (10-15 min). Users of all experience levels are welcome. Take part and feel free to share! 👉 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Thanks very much to everyone who participates! #CATMA #Survey #DigitalHumanities #DHTools

☝️ Quick reminder: Our next drop-in support session takes place tomorrow. You can find all the details in our original announcement here: bsky.app/profile/catm...

Flying back today from a circuit of some (not all!) of the great DH centers in Germany (Darmstadt, Bielefeld, Leipzig and Würzburg). Such great energy and amazing people moving the field forward at each one. I'm bringing back lots of ideas.

We are very excited to announce the publication of our forTEXT issue on text annotation in higher education. It brings together tried-and-tested, reusable teaching concepts in German centred on the method of text annotation in the humanities. 👉 www.fortext-hefte.de (1/4)

As a follow-up to our last post, here’s an overview of various DH centers that provide a wide range of services for the community. (1/6) #dh #DigitalHumanities #DHPools #DHCenter

Let’s start with two great platforms that offer curated overviews of resources for anyone diving into DH research. (1/3)

In the ever-evolving field of Digital Humanities, knowing where to find information, experts, and tools can be a recurring challenge for researchers. Expert pools and resource directories can therefore be very helpful for a variety of reasons. (1/3) #dh #DigitalHumanities #DHPools #DHCenter

Here we are at Evelyn Gius’s keynote! #AIUCD2025

The first public CATMA workshop this year is taking place in June! Here are the details: ✏️ 16th of June 2025, 16:00/4pm CEST (3pm BST, 10am EDT, 9am CDT, 7am PDT) Duration: 2 hours Language: English Location: Online via Zoom 🎥: tu-darmstadt.zoom-x.de/j/6500744705... See you there!

We are resuming our drop-in support sessions! This is an open invitation to all beginners to attend via Zoom. The next session takes place this Friday, 30 May 2025 at 10:00 / 10am CEST (9am BST) Location: Online via Zoom 🎥: tu-darmstadt.zoom-x.de/j/6928799641... (no registration required) (1/3)

We’re looking forward to welcoming @dbamman.bsky.social to Darmstadt in early June! During his week at the fortext lab, we’ll exchange ideas, workshop our projects, and dive into shared interests in computational analysis. (1/3)

Last week, our team member Stefanie returned to Germany after spending the first half of May on Canada's East Coast, where she had the opportunity to engage with a diverse group of DH Scholars and discuss some of her key interests. (1/6)

This week, Anne Heumann from @unimainz.bsky.social joined us to talk about how book reviews are incentivized on the platform LovelyBooks. Do free copies of books bias reviewers? Thanks to Anne for the fascinating talk and to all our guests for the lively discussion! (1/4)

"CATMA’s tags module recently got some enhancements. You can now sort tags alphabetically (ascending or descending) and bulk-edit properties with the same name, as well as optionally update the related annotations. #DH #CATMA #CLS

In CATMA 7.2 we extended the invitation and member management - possibilities for you. We are introducing: user groups! You can now create user groups and invite members via a list of email addresses … (1/3)

For introductory purposes, I often use the materials by @fortextlab.bsky.social. They offer introductions, teaching units, and similar. For their materials on stylometry, see fortext.net/routinen/met... or www.fortext-hefte.de/issue/93/info/.

The eagle-eyed among you may have noticed already –- we quietly released CATMA 7.2 at the beginning of March. 🥳 #DH #CATMA #CLS (1/3)

Last week, @evelyngius.bsky.social presented at the 40th Annual International Conference on Narrative, hosted by the Science & Fiction Lab at Florida International University. She joined a roundtable discussion exploring computational approaches to narrative studies in the age of AI. (1/5)

🎥 In an online workshop on on the use of AI in university teaching, organised by the workgroup Digitale Romanistik in cooperation with Text+, Mari und @haimostiemer.bsky.social are giving a presentation today on „ChatGPT as a literary writing tool“. #LLMs #ChatGPT #CLS #DHteaching

Last week was the first fortext lab-workshop of 2025! Twice a year, the fortext lab comes together for several days to look back on the past six months, reflect on our best practices for good collaboration, discuss our current research, and plan the next half-year. #CLS #DH #DigitalHumanities (1/4)

Exciting news from the PLANS project! Our submission for the #DH2025 conference at @NOVAunl in Lisbon has been accepted! 🚀 We're thrilled to present our work, discuss findings, and connect with the community. #DH #CLS (1/3)

Ich konnte gestern 37 „neue“ Publikationen zu meinen Google-Scholar-Profil hinzufügen. Warum? Weil 2024 die forTEXT-Hefte von @fortextlab.bsky.social gelauncht wurden. Jetzt sind die forTEXT-Klassiker voll zitierfähig. Schaut mal: pro Methode gibt es jetzt ein Heft 🤩 www.fortext-hefte.de/issues/

The entire fortext lab team will be attending this year's #DHd2025 conference!
 We will give a workshop on teaching text annotation with CATMA (Mon/Tues), Evelyn Gius will speak about operationalization (Wed), and Haimo Stiemer will present the 'Whisper study' (Thurs). 👇 (1/4)

Exchanging ideas with colleagues from the CLS-DFG priority program is always exciting. Last Friday, we discussed characters, character features, and plot in narrative texts with Julia Nantke, @nilsreiter.de , and Janis Pagel from the CompAnno project in Hamburg. 👇 (1/3)

Was it really always Kafka's father’s guilt? evelyngius.bsky.social and haimostiemer.bsky.social had lively debates with their students in the Kafka seminar at the fortext lab, which concludes this week. 👇 (1/4)

Would you like to explore how to integrate our annotation software @catma.bsky.social into your teaching or are you planning a seminar on digital text annotation? We warmly invite you to our upcoming workshop on the 3rd and 4th of March at the DHd2025 in Bielefeld. (1/4)

Last Friday I gave a workshop on literary annotation at Stanford University, presenting the software #CATMA and the Python package GitMA developed by @fortextlab.bsky.social. #LiteraryAnnotation #LiteraryComputing #CLS #Stanford catma.de #DigitalHumanities

This week we went to the University of Hamburg to present the forTEXT portal and its core components as part of the public lecture series ‘Digital Humanities: Foundations, Methods and Reflection from an Interdisciplinary Perspective’. #DH #DHTools #DHTeaching #CLS @uni-hamburg.de

How was German literature taught at secondary schools in the 19th Century? This is the central question, Hendrick Heimböckel (University of Osnabrück) asks in his habilitation project, which he presented at our advanced seminar this week. Read on, for a quick overview 👇 (1/3)

In #2024, our lab took over a crucial part of editing the conference issue of the Journal of Computational Literary Studies. #JCLS #CCLS24 jcls.io

Looking forward to seeing you there!

It’s alive! In our project „Animacy in German Folktales” we annotated animacy in a literary corpus and built a classifier. Results where just presented at the wonderful #CHR2024 in Aarhus, Denmark. Keep on reading for a brief summary of the key arguments. #DH #CLS @comphumresearch.bsky.social (1/6)

📣 The last two forTEXT issues, which consist exclusively of articles from fortext.net on the topics of project conception and bibliography, are now available at www.fortext-hefte.de/issues/.

We were delighted to have @fpianz.bsky.social visit us in Darmstadt last week! In his talk on “Graphs and Ontologies for Literary Evolution Models: 2023-27 and beyond“, he provided interesting insights into modeling the evolution of fiction within the context of a digitalized and datafied culture.