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Svenja Guhr @svenjaguhr.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 20/02/2026

Her stay concluded with a workshop at the AI Futures Lab as part of the #CulturalAnalytics series, where she introduced the new add-on #Flexicon for the concordance web application #CLiC. Dear Michaela, thank you so much for traveling to the I School and for […] [Original post on fedihum.org]

Michaela Mahlberg and Svenja Guhr in front of UC Berkeley Campanile

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Svenja Guhr @svenjaguhr.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 20/02/2026

The visit also provided a good opportunity to involve students. At CARL, the Cultural Analytics Research Lab I have been leading since its founding in January. We did a trial run of the talk and discussed current approaches to using language models for […] [Original post on fedihum.org]

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Svenja Guhr @svenjaguhr.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 20/02/2026

Building on these topics, we spent the following days drafting a new article and preparing our talk, “Soundful Dickens,” analyzing the fictional soundscape of the #Dickens Novel corpus (DNov). We’ll present it next week at the #DHd2026 Conference in Vienna. #DigitalHumanities #BritishFiction

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Svenja Guhr @svenjaguhr.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 20/02/2026

She inaugurated our #Bellwether Lecture Series with her talk on “Making Sense of the World through Language and Stories: A Digital Humanities Perspective” followed by a lively discussion on concordances, generative AI, and research responsibility in the #DigitalHumanities.

Prof. Michaela Mahlberg in South Hall lecture hall giving her talk

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Svenja Guhr @svenjaguhr.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 20/02/2026

Last week (11–13 Feb), I had the pleasure of welcoming Prof. Michaela Mahlberg from @dhss_fau to the UC Berkeley School of Information #DigitalHumanities #LiteraryComputing

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Svenja Guhr @svenjaguhr.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2025

"The nightmare of generative narratology" - "A sea of blah"... 🌊 Will we drown? #GenerativeLLM #StoryTelling

Yuri presents his dream and nightmare visions of generative narratology

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Svenja Guhr @svenjaguhr.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2025

Are stories machines that make us feel? Yuri Bizzoni rethinks #SentimentAnalysis in #CLS in his talk at Atelier: "#Narratologie et humanités numériques", ENS Paris/Sorbonne nouvelle

Yuri presenting his talk on Sentiment Analysis in CLS at ENS Paris / Sorbonne nouvelle

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Svenja Guhr @svenjaguhr.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2025

Today’s #highlight for me on the last day of #DH2025? Luca Giovannini presenting his "Modest Proposal for Operationalizing Dramatic Texts". He proposes drama vectorization not to simplify plays, but rather to continue formalist morphological thinking using computational tools. 🎭📊 #CLS #drama

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Svenja Guhr @svenjaguhr.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2025

#DH2025: From my home region in Lower Saxony 🇩🇪, Lina Franken & Sabina Mollenhauer present a research-driven curation approach to archive the everyday culture of rural community halls. Wedding menus, party photos, and memories become material traces of intangible #CulturalHeritage. #DigitalArchives

Sabina presents their workflow at DH2025

Slide with photos used as source to archive intangible cultural heritage

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Svenja Guhr @svenjaguhr.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 16/07/2025

#DH2025: So exciting to see #hallucination rates calculated in #CLS with #LLMs. Great work by Sarah Griebel, Layne-Worthey, et al. on the ongoing challenge of #CharacterAttribution in English fiction titled "Strictly Speaking: Character Attribution in Literary […] [Original post on fedihum.org]

Hallucination Type in the study of speaker attribution in Middlemarch

Hallucination Rates for the study of speaker attribution in Middlemarch

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Svenja Guhr @svenjaguhr.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 16/07/2025

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 […] [Original post on fedihum.org]

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Svenja Guhr @svenjaguhr.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 16/07/2025

Today at #DH2025, my dear colleague, Judith Brottrager (TU Darmstadt), presents her recently completed Ph.D. project, "The Canon and 'The Great Unread,'" which examines #English- and #German-language fiction diachronically. #PhDone #Canonization […] [Original post on fedihum.org]

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Svenja Guhr @svenjaguhr.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 15/07/2025

#DH2025: At the mini conference "The Times they are a-changing" on temporal data in #DH, 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 […] [Original post on fedihum.org]

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Svenja Guhr @svenjaguhr.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 15/07/2025

#DH2025: Amazing #CLS work at the mini conference "The times they are a-changing". Judith Brottrager (TU Darmstadt) 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. 🐛

Judith Brottrager presenting her canonisation score at #DH2025 mini conference

Judith Brottrager presenting her time-sensitive networks at #DH2025 mini conference

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Svenja Guhr @svenjaguhr.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2025

#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

Judith Brottrager presenting her recently completed PhD thesis at #DH2025

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Svenja Guhr @svenjaguhr.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2025

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

Enrica Bruno presenting her PhD topic at #DH2025

Guillaume Apollinaire's Calligramme de la Tour Eiffel

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Svenja Guhr @svenjaguhr.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2025

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

A map of fictional Prague, based on the topographies mentioned in the annotated novels.

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Svenja Guhr @svenjaguhr.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 18/06/2025

Yesterday, I gave a #talk on a comparative character sound analysis of Fontane's Effi Briest and Reuter's Aus guter Familie in the DH-Lab@ Philturm @ uni-hamburg.de. Slides, code, and interactive visualizations can be found here […] [Original post on fedihum.org]

Comparative visualization of the Average character loudness of the two female main characters Effi and Agathe over the course of the fiction segmented in scenes.

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Svenja Guhr @svenjaguhr.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 13/05/2025

There are #interactive #visualizations like this drop-down menu option to see the most distinctive words either for an entire year, for a single abstract, or - wait for it - for an #author! Give it a try and find out about your own #DHd conference abstracts! […] [Original post on fedihum.org]

Screenshot most distinctive words of conference year 2020 with drop-down-menu

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Svenja Guhr @svenjaguhr.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 13/05/2025

Based on an analysis of #DHd conference abstracts, I trace the evolution of #CLS methods from 2014 to 2025: from omnipresent #NetworkAnalysis and #Annotation, to the first appearance of #TopicModeling and #SentimentAnalysis, to #DeepLearning and #GenerativeAI.

Visualization of the methods used as keyword clusters per abstract shows the relative share (%) of the method groups per year.

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Svenja Guhr @svenjaguhr.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 13/05/2025

What trends shape Computational Literary Studies in the German-speaking Digital Humanities Community? #DigitalHumanities #ComputationalLiteraryStudies #LLMs #DHMethods #DHd2025 #DHd #DH #LiteraryComputing #CLS

Girl with a pen and a notebook saying “great question”

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Svenja Guhr @svenjaguhr.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 04/05/2025

@alielassche.bsky.social presents joined work on #canonization, proposing "non-canonical canonicals", referring to earlier findings in Feldkamp et al. (2024). "A canonical textual profile is not enough to become canonical". #NAACL2025 #SIGHUM

Slide by Alie Lassche on tasks and hypotheses of their work on canonization in Danish literature

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Svenja Guhr @svenjaguhr.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 04/05/2025

@janispagel introduces #CLS to the audience at #NAACL2025 #SIGHUM. The paper "Evaluating LLM-Prompting for Sequence Labeling Tasks in Computational Literary Studies" evaluates #SentimentAnalysis and #EventDetection tasks with #LLMs. aclanthology.org/2025.latechclfl-1.0

Janis Pagel on the right side of the picture introduces Computational Literary Studies to the workshop audience at SIGHUM NAACL2025. Slides with explanation of CLS

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Svenja Guhr @svenjaguhr.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 04/05/2025

Final day of #NAACL2025 + workshops, it’s time for #SIGHUM LaTeCH CLfL 2025 #DigitalHumanities #LanguageTechnology #Socio-EconomicSciences #Humanities

Screenshot of SIGHUM website with head of the workshop program

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Svenja Guhr @svenjaguhr.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 11/04/2025

Back in Göttingen for a weekend of swimming to renew my lifeguard license, I am working remotely today from the library of my alma mater @unigoettingen. Seeing the first-year student activities, I'm reminded that 9 years ago this month, I was a new master student myself. How time flies!

Freshmen activities on the main square of the campus of the university of Göttingen, Germany. University buildings in the back in brutalism style. Costumed students in the front playing games on the square.

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Svenja Guhr @svenjaguhr.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 03/03/2025

The sun also shines in Bielefeld! ☀️ Biele-what? Believe it or not! 😄 #DHd25 #conference #DigitalHumanities

Svenja in the sun in front of University of Applied Sciences HSIB Bielefeld. “Research” written on the ground.

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Svenja Guhr @svenjaguhr.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 27/01/2025

Last week 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

Workshop presenter Svenja Guhr in front of a screen with the slides for the CATMA annotation workshop. Also a table with printed texts for manual annotation.

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Svenja Guhr @svenjaguhr.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 11/07/2024

PhDone! What a day! Thank you to all the people who supported me along the way! @forTEXT @TU

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