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By Hans Ole Hatzel, @haimostiemer.bsky.social, @evelyngius.bsky.social & Chris Biemann. Annotated in @catma.bsky.social, with additional help from the GitMA package.

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Plus a reception layer: sentence-level timings from audiobook performances by amateur and professional readers, with pause lengths and reading speed aligned to the text. We're curious to see what you can draw out of the annotations!

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Characters in Action (ChiA) – Richtlinien für die Annotation figuraler Ereignisbeteiligung in Erzähltexten

We also apply ChiA (Characters in Action), our scheme for character mentions, direct speech and agency. Each verbal phrase records who acts, who is acted upon and who is merely present — good for character networks that go beyond name co-occurrence.

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Diese Richtlinien beschreiben das ChiA-Tagset (Characters in Action) zur Annotation figurenbezogener Phänomene in literarischen Erzähltexten. Es erfasst drei zentrale Dimensionen der narrativen Figure...

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The texts: Tieck's Der blonde Eckbert, Kleist's Das Erdbeben in Chili, Ebner-Eschenbach's Krambambuli and Kafka's Die Verwandlung — annotated in full rather than in excerpts, so whole narratives can be analysed. 40k tokens, 1,614 sentences, 70 scenes and 18k+ annotations.

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

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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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 a heartfelt thank you to the organizers for pulling off this huge international endeavour with such care, @dh2026daejeon.bsky.social. Now it's time to fight our way back into the old sleep rhythm – travel safe, everyone, and see you next time! ✨(2/2)

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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

The poster maps out strategies for building resilient, low-maintenance software architectures under uncertain funding cycles, favouring static, open and durable solutions over infrastructure-heavy setups. Stop by and say hi! 👋 #DigitalHumanities #MinimalComputing #ScienceCommunication (2/2)

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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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And last but not least. Our third talk asks whether audiobook timing can signal narrative importance. The study links plot keyness to pauses and reading speed, finding that longer pauses show a weak but significant relation to key moments, while tempo is less reliable. (4/4)

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Our second DH2026 talk presents the forTEXT journal: an open-access, community-driven publication platform that connects research, teaching materials, and exchange across digital literary studies. #openaccess (3/4)

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Our first contribution is a poster presentation and lightning talk on how LLMs compare German-language and Hebrew climate fiction and what their classifications reveal about cultural differences, genre thresholds, and the limits of LLM based literary analysis. #ComputationalLiteraryStudies (2/4)

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

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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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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Thanks also for too many delicious chicken wings 🐔 (and possibly bananas 🍌 – if you know, you know) and an amazing barbecue on the Gurten with views of the Alps! 🫶 (4/4)

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The Flow – From Deep-Learning to Digital Analysis and their Role in the Humanities Creating, Evaluating, and Critiquing Workflows for Historical Corpora

More general information about this exciting project here: www.flow-project.net Many thanks 🙏 to the project leads, Tobias Hodel, Angela Huang, @sschwandt.bsky.social and Serena Tolino for the invitation, and to all participants for the interesting presentations and the lively discussions! (3/4)

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Documentation for the Flow-Project, an open-source environment for handwritten text recognition (HTR) and related tasks.

These are primarily concerned with Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR), Natural Language Processing (NLP) and their application to premodern historical sources. Check out the official documentation to learn more about the software: docs.flow-project.net/latest/index... (2/4) #ResearchSoftware #RSE

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CATMA @catma.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

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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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

The forTEXT journal is seeking German-language articles on DH methods and teaching concepts related to machine learning and AI in the humanities. Contributions from all DH-related research disciplines, including areas such as digital history, literary studies, data ethics, and more. (2/2)

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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

Musicologists work with texts too: libretti, performance notes, program texts, historical sources. CATMA lets you annotate them without forcing your interpretation into a predefined mold, a digital approach to enriching musical research with textual analysis. 📖🎼 (3/4)

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

On Day 1 (July 6) our lab director @evelyngius.bsky.social takes the floor to introduce @catma.bsky.social – with a focus on use cases for musicology, followed by a hands-on session. So you won't just hear about it, you'll actually use it. Bring your texts, bring your questions! ✍️ (2/4)

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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

A big thank-you to our annotators @fortextlab.bsky.social, whose careful feedback was invaluable throughout the long process of developing & revising the guidelines. We’d be delighted to see the guidelines used in other narratological projects as well. #CLS #Narratology #Annotation #Guidelines (3/3)

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

The guidelines were developed in the PLANS project at the fortext lab, which focuses on exploring and modeling new concepts of plot. Characters naturally play a crucial role in this context, and ChiA is meant to help describe their involvement more precisely. (2/3)

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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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Another issue on text annotation will be published soon, so stay tuned for more information on publications and calls for papers, which are realeased approximately every six months! (4/4)

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The special issue "Reflected Text Analysis in Higher Education" edited by @axelpichler.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy & Nils Reiter contains 3 teaching concepts on the methods of thematology and topic modeling, network analysis, and narratological text annotation. 👉 journal.fortext.org/issue/119/in... (3/4)

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The issue “Text Annotation in Higher Education” includes teaching concepts for digital editing using TEI and a teaching concept for text annotation using CATMA. 👉 journal.fortext.org/issue/116/in... (2/4)

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