Digital Humanities and Natural Language Processing
Digital Humanities and the appliciation and develoment of Natural Language Processing methods is an active reasearch field in the Data Science Chair. In projects like Kallimachos or CLiGS we collaborate with literary scholars and work on literary and NLP research questions. Current research topics involve for example the detection of direct speech, the classification of text types or sentiment analysis in a literary context.
Projects
We are currently working on the following projects:
Publications
Here is a list of selected publications. You can find the full list for CLiGS here and for Kallimachos here.
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Detection of Scenes in Fiction. Gius, Evelyn; Jannidis, Fotis; Krug, Markus; Zehe, Albin; Hotho, Andreas; Puppe, Frank; Krebs, Jonathan; Reiter, Nils; Wiedmer, Nathalie; Konle, Leonard (2019).
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Analysing Direct Speech in German Novels. Jannidis, Fotis; Konle, Leonard; Zehe, Albin; Hotho, Andreas; Krug, Markus (2018).
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Straight Talk! Automatic Recognition of Direct Speech in Nineteenth-Century French Novels. Schöch, Christof; Schlör, Daniel; Popp, Stefanie; Brunner, Annelen; Henny, Ulrike; Tello, José Calvo (2016). 346–353.
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Burrows’ Zeta: Exploring and Evaluating Variants and Parameters. Schöch, Christof; Schlör, Daniel; Zehe, Albin; Gebhard, Henning; Becker, Martin; Hotho, Andreas (2018). 274–277.
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A White-Box Model for Detecting Author Nationality by Linguistic Differences in Spanish Novels. Zehe, Albin; Schlör, Daniel; Henny-Krahmer, Ulrike; Becker, Martin; Hotho, Andreas (2018).