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JCLS @jcls-io.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

🗓️ We are thrilled to announce the Call for Papers for the conference+journal track of the 6th annual Conference of Computational Literary Studies, July 8-9, 2027, in #Groningen, #TheNetherlands! #CCLS2027 #CfP Submit your article by February 1, 2027! 🥳🥳🥳 jcls.io/site/cfp/

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fortext lab @fortextlab.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

🌿 Three days of team retreat in Vienna: the fortext lab has been using the time away from the office to plan the coming year, talk about collaborations and collect ideas for new projects. Between all the planning, there was also plenty of time for coffee and snacks.

A picture of a team of six people, the forTEXT team, in front of a old, but fancy building. The sky is clear and the weather seems good.

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fortext lab @fortextlab.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Interested in characters, agency, narrative structure or reading performance across complete literary texts? Meet GermAnProse: four German short prose works, fully annotated for computational literary studies. Paper: aclanthology.org/2026.latechc... Data: github.com/forTEXT/Germ...

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Narrative in Short German Prose: A Multi-Phenomenon Dataset for Computational Literary Analysis

Hans Ole Hatzel, Haimo Stiemer, Evelyn Gius, Chris Biemann. Proceedings of the 10th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature...

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CATMA @catma.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

What's working in CATMA, and what isn't? We're currently running a survey on the features you use — annotating, queries, tagsets, teamwork — and how the interface holds up. Feedback from recently joined and long-time users alike is welcome. ~5-10 min, anonymous. forms.gle/3uNQNdE4NiBx...

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Survey for CATMA users

This survey takes around 5-10 minutes and asks for your experience with CATMA. We are looking for feedback from both new and experienced users, your answers help us improve CATMA. All responses are an...

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fortext lab @fortextlab.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

And just like that, the #DH2026 week is over! Whether online or on-site in South Korea, it was truly wonderful to see the DH community come together around so many different projects, ideas, and people. We're grateful for all the interest and thoughtful feedback on our contributions. 🙏 (1/2)

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fortext lab @fortextlab.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Oftentimes the smartest infrastructure is the simplest one. Today at #DH2026, our lab member Steffi presents a poster on minimal computing in public DH and science communication, with @viktor.im (FU Berlin). Their plea: make it static to make it last – but first ask what's worth keeping. (1/2)

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Haimo Stiemer @haimostiemer.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Let’s go! An exciting week lies ahead @dh2026daejeon.bsky.social. I will be speaking on behalf of @fortextlab.bsky.social about a comparison of German-language and Hebrew climate fiction, and about pauses in prose as semantic markers. #DH2026 #CLS #DigitalHumanities #DH #Conference #Narratology

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fortext lab @fortextlab.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

The fortext lab will also be in Daejeon next week for Digital Humanities 2026 @dh2026daejeon.bsky.social! We’re delighted to be part of the conference and look forward to inspiring discussions, new perspectives, and exchange with the international DH community. #DH2026 #CLS #DigitalHumanities (1/4)

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fortext lab @fortextlab.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Recommendations wanted: our colleague @haimostiemer.bsky.social is designing a seminar on German-language crime literature for the coming winter term, using Boltanski as the theoretical framework and annotation as the method. Which Krimis are essential reading? 🕵️ bsky.app/profile/haim...

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fortext lab @fortextlab.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

In the 2nd week of June, Malte attended the final conference of The Flow project at @unibe.ch 🏔️ dhbern.github.io/content/proj... He had been invited to provide an outside perspective and to comment on the technical workflow and tools developed in the project. (1/4) #DigitalHumanities #DH #DHTools

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Yesterday @hanshatzel.bsky.social presented the findings of the shared task on narrative similarity at #SemEval, co-located with #ACL. Check out the details on our website narrative-similarity-task.github.io Special thanks to our participants. It was great seeing all of your hard work!

Hans Hatzel in a conference venue pointing at his projected slides. The slide reads "3 Data Sourcing & Annotations".

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CATMA @catma.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Great news from the CATMA team! 🚀 In April, we entered a new project phase made possible by generous funding from the DFG @dfg.de. We welcomed a new developer to the team and are excited to continue developing CATMA for our community. (1/4)

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fortext lab @fortextlab.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Call for Papers: Machine Learning and AI in Humanities Research and Teaching 📅 Abstract submissions are open until September 15, 2026. Full CfP: journal.fortext.org/site/cfp/ 🧵 More details below #DigitalHumanities #DH #MachineLearning #KI #OpenAccess (1/2)

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fortext lab @fortextlab.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

🎵📝 Exciting workshop coming up! "Scores, Text & Audio: How to Enrich your Research with Annotation Tools and Metadata" — a two-day online event by @nfdi4culture.bsky.social & HERMES, July 6–7, 2026. Day 1 is all about annotation tools. (1/4)

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fortext lab @fortextlab.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

We are thrilled to announce that the fortext lab has a new addition, a second software developer for CATMA! 🎉 We would like to extend a warm welcome to Immanuel von Detten. Immanuel will support the team with the continuous development and a redesign of the user interface of @catma.bsky.social

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fortext lab @fortextlab.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

We’re excited to share that we published the “Characters in Action” (ChiA) annotation guidelines on Zenodo today. ChiA captures three key dimensions of character representation in narrative texts: mention in text, participation in event, and direct speech. 👉 doi.org/10.5281/zeno... (1/3) #DH

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Julian Häußler @julianhaeussler.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Last week the University of Hamburg's DH Lab very warmly welcomed me to give a small guest lecture on my PhD research. (1/3)

Title slide of a presentation. It reads "Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der Computational Narratology am Beispiel der Analyse von Figurenmotivation".

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fortext lab @fortextlab.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Have you already taken a look at the forTEXT journal issues featuring teaching concepts on the topics text annotation and reflected text analysis yet? 👉 journal.fortext.org #DH #teachingconcepts #DHpedagogy #openaccess (1/4)

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Federico Pianzola @fpianz.eurosky.social · 29/05/2026

Colleagues from all over the world, please think about the combination DH2027 in Ireland + CCLS 2027 in the Netherlands. They're only a few days apart. @uniofgalway.bsky.social @rug.nl

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fortext lab @fortextlab.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Last week @evelyngius.bsky.social took part in the international conference "Plot and Genre in Computational Literary Studies" at ZPD Würzburg: Two days dedicated to discussions on how we model plot, and what genre has to do with it. (1/4)

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fortext lab @fortextlab.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

This year's CCLS takes place this week in Potsdam - our team is all set and very much looking forward to discussions with the CLS community. See you there! 👋

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fortext lab @fortextlab.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

This week we have a special guest: Our former team member @guhrs.bsky.social has joined us in Darmstadt! While Evelyn is traveling to present on Measurement Theory, Svenja stepped in to lead this week's seminar session on manual and automated annotation.

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fortext lab @fortextlab.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

The third and final article from our Special Issue on Reflected Text Analysis is now available! The teaching concept by @haimostiemer.bsky.social and @evelyngius.bsky.social introduces students to the analysis of Kafka’s characters from a narratological perspective. (1/3)

Cover page for an article titled "Seminar: Kafkas Figuren in der reflektierten Erzähltextanalyse. forTEXT 3 (1): Reflektierte Textanalyse in der Hochschullehre".

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fortext lab @fortextlab.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

The semester is back in full swing, and so are our weekly lab meetings! 💃 On last week's agenda: Krippendorff and Inter Annotator Agreements – the theory, the challenges, and how to actually put it into practice. (1/4)

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fortext lab @fortextlab.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

📢 The Call for Papers for #CHR2027 is live! The 7th Conference on Computational Humanities Research takes place in Manchester, UK, 5–8 January 2027. The submission deadline is 14 August 2026 – mark your calendars and get your work in! 👉

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Svenja Guhr @guhrs.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Greetings from U Wyoming! ☀️🏔️🤠🦬 Such a great day for teaching a workshop about #annotation with CATMA.de 👩‍💻 #CLS #ComputationalHumanities #DigitalHumanities @catma.bsky.social @fortextlab.bsky.social

“Breakin’ through” miniature statue of a woman rodeo riding a horse breaking through a wall

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fortext lab @fortextlab.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

The semester at TU Darmstadt @tuda.bsky.social is officially underway – welcome to everyone starting fresh or returning! 🏰 As every semester, we're offering a range of Digital Humanities courses and would love to introduce them to you. 👇 (1/8)

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fortext lab @fortextlab.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Are you still looking for an approach to teaching network analysis in higher education? #DigitalHumanities #DH #DHTeaching #DHPedagogy (1/3)

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fortext lab @fortextlab.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Last week we got together in Darmstadt for one of our two big yearly meetings – the other being the lab retreat, which we reported on in September. Like at the retreat, we spent some time reflecting on the past half year and our achievements, as well as our teamwork. (1/2) #DigitalHumanities

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fortext lab @fortextlab.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

The forTEXT journal team is thrilled to announce: The first articles of our first Special Issue on Reflected Text Analysis, edited by guest editors @axelpichler.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy and @nilsreiter.de, are available now at: journal.fortext.org/issues/ (1/4)   #DH #DHTeaching #DHPedagogy

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fortext lab @fortextlab.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Next stop: Daejeon, South Korea! 🌏 The fortext lab is excited to join #DH2026 with three contributions sharing insights from our current Digital Humanities research. (1/3) #DigitalHumanities #ComputationalLiteraryStudies #DH #CLS

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fortext lab @fortextlab.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Our paper (see co-authors in the thread), "Computational hermeneutics: evaluating generative AI as a cultural technology", is now out in Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence. (1/5)

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fortext lab @fortextlab.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

This week, part of our team attended #DHd2026 in sunny Vienna — it was a joy to meet the community, exchange ideas, and present some of our current work 👇 (1/4)

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fortext lab @fortextlab.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

We are looking to extend the @catma.bsky.social development team! This is an E13, full-time position for 36 months and relates to the ongoing development of our open source annotation tool. #DigitalHumanities #DH #DHd #ResearchSoftware #CATMA #Annotation #RSE #DHTech #DHTools (1/3)

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Evelyn Gius @evelyngius.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Come work with us! Das @fortextlab.bsky.social sucht Verstärkung für @catma.bsky.social. Die Stelle (E13, 100%, 3 Jahre) wird Teil des dreiköpfigen Entwicklungsteams: www.career.tu-darmstadt.de/tu-darmstadt... Bewerbungsschluss ist der 16.03.! #DigitalHumanities #ResearchSoftware #CATMA #Annotation

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fortext lab @fortextlab.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Some of us will be heading to Vienna next week for this year's #DHd2026 conference. We are looking forward to learning about current DH projects! Our team will be presenting a talk on measurement in DH and participating in the poster session with the forTEXT journal: (1/4)

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fortext lab @fortextlab.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

We are currently compiling a collection of German-language climate fiction novels. So we have a question for the community: Which texts come to mind for you? #climate-change-fiction #CLS #ecocriticism #climate-fiction #digitalhumanities #cli-fi #germanliterature #climate-change (1/2)

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fortext lab @fortextlab.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

In this week’s project seminar, Steffi from our team shared a peek at her PhD project, which explores the question: What shapes literary histories as texts? (1/3)

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fortext lab @fortextlab.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Last week, Steffi from our forTEXT team attended the final “Fokus Portale” workshop in Hamburg, hosted by Stiftung Innovation in der Hochschullehre - reflecting on the past funding phase of our forTEXT journal and annotation software @catma.bsky.social. (1/4)

rote Tafel der Stiftung mit Schrift: Lehre bereitet Wege für die Zukunft

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fortext lab @fortextlab.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

A few weeks ago, we hosted a small one-and-a-half day workshop here in Darmstadt for research software engineers. A prior workshop with the same participants had taken place at University of Bielefeld in spring. The primary topic this time was (software) project management. #DHTech #RSE (1/5)

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fortext lab @fortextlab.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

This year’s CHR2025 conference in Luxembourg started yesterday, and we will be there to share insights into the two following projects #CHR2025 (1/6): See our abstracts for more information: 👉 doi.org/10.63744/IwD...  👉 doi.org/10.63744/cUQ...

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fortext lab @fortextlab.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

What happens when colleagues from archives, libraries, and the humanities come together to talk about metadata? A wonderfully inspiring workshop "Metadaten in den Humanities" with great people and great conversations at the Zentralbibliothek Zürich! #metadata #CLS #Humanities (1/4)

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There is still time to get started on the shared task. The test phase will be held in January. This week you can find many of us organizers at @comphumresearch.bsky.social. Feel free to reach out; look for @evelyngius.bsky.social, @haimostiemer.bsky.social, and @hanshatzel.bsky.social.

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JCLS @jcls-io.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Excited about the #JCLS articles and working on a #ComputationalLiteraryStudies draft yourself? Be part of the journal and submit to our Conference Track by January 8: jcls.io/site/cfp/ #CCLS2026 #CLS #LiteraryComputing #CfP

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fortext lab @fortextlab.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

For the last two weeks the fortext lab hosted the Georgian DH-Expert Irakli Khvedelidze (Shota Rustaveli Institute of Georgian Literature). Alongside various meetings exchanging experiences and ideas, Irakli gave a public talk on research in the field of Digital Literary Studies in Georgia. (1/5)

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CATMA @catma.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Quick reminder: Join us at our free CATMA Workshop next week! ➡️ 24th of November 2025, 16:00/4pm CET (3pm GMT, 10am EST, 9am CST, 7am PST) ➡️ Duration: 2 hours ➡️ Location: tu-darmstadt.zoom-x.de/j/6397993214... (no registration required) See you there!

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fortext lab @fortextlab.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Last week, we held a small but intensive workshop in Darmstadt on how literary history and computation can go together. The talks either adapted traditional literary concepts for computational analysis or introduced new digital approaches. (1/3)

Participants of the Workshop "Literary History and Computation". Ten people standing in two rows outside the Wissenschaftsschloss Darmstadt.

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