{"id":17707,"date":"2022-04-06T20:38:57","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T18:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dhd-blog.org\/?p=17707"},"modified":"2022-04-07T16:53:46","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T14:53:46","slug":"distant-reading-for-european-literary-history-closing-conference-april-21-22-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dhd-blog.org\/?p=17707","title":{"rendered":"Distant Reading for European Literary History: Closing Conference (April 21-22, 2022)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The <\/span>COST<\/span> Action Distant Reading for European Literary History is delighted to announce that its closing conference takes place on April 21-22, 2022 in an online-only format.<\/span><\/div>\n
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The conference is co-organized as a common event of the Distant Reading and the Computational Literary Studies Infrastructure (<\/span>CLS<\/span>INFRA<\/span>) projects. The local organizer is the Jagiellonian University in Krak\u00f3w, Poland.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Participants from both projects will be presenting papers on a wide range of topics in the field of distant reading and computational methods applied to literary texts. Sessions address topics such as corpus design, text encoding and annotation, analytical perspectives, theoretical concerns as well as infrastructure and training requirements.<\/span><\/div>\n
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We are proud to welcome two keynote speakers: Prof. Dr. Karina van Dalen-Oskam (University of Amsterdam and The Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands, Netherlands) and Dr. Oleg Sobchuk (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany).<\/span><\/div>\n
For the full conference programme, see below and at: <\/span>https:\/\/www.distant-reading.net\/events\/conference-programme\/<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The <\/span>COST<\/span>\u00a0Action Distant Reading for European Literary History has brought together scholars from more than 30 countries interested in analyzing large bodies of literary works using computational, quantitative text analysis. Together they have been building the multilingual European Literary Text Collection (ELTeC) currently containing more than 1900 novels in 17 different languages, with full text encoded in\u00a0<\/span>XML<\/span>–<\/span>TEI<\/span>. The scholars involved in the project have also been developing innovative methods of text analysis adapted to Europe\u2019s multilingual literary traditions. They have discovered cross-national, large-scale patterns and evolutions across European literary traditions and they have contributed to the creation of a broader, more inclusive and better-grounded account of European literary history and cultural identity. For more information, see:\u00a0<\/span>https:\/\/distant-reading.net<\/a>.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Computational Literary Studies Infrastructure (<\/span>CLS<\/span>INFRA<\/span>), funded as a Starting Community in Horizon 2020, is a four-year partnership aiming to build a shared resource of high-quality data, tools and knowledge needed for literary studies using artificial intelligence and other computational methods. The overall aim of\u00a0<\/span>CLS<\/span>INFRA<\/span>\u00a0is to open up the best data mining resources Europe has to offer in the growing field of Computational Literary Studies, which enables a big-data approach to the study of culture. A further aim of the project is to open up Computational Literary Studies to more researchers and enable investigation into Europe\u2019s multi-lingual and interconnected literary heritage and cultural diversity. Partners in the 13 institutions will bring together existing resources as well as develop new tools, services and literary collections. For more information, see\u00a0<\/span>https:\/\/clsinfra.io<\/a>.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Conference Programme<\/h3>\n

THURSDAY<\/span>,\u00a0APRIL<\/span>\u00a021, 2022<\/strong><\/h4>\n

14:00-15:30: Session 1, \u201cCreating and Annotating ELTeC\u201d<\/strong>
Opening \/ Words of welcome
(1) What a difference five years make: achievements and challenges of Distant Reading for European Literary History
Christof Sch\u00f6ch and Maciej Eder
(2) Collaborative creation of a multi-lingual literary corpus. Challenges and best practices for corpus design
Lou Burnard, Borja Navarro-Colorado, Carolin Odebrecht, Martina Scholger
(3) Mapping the inner life of characters in the European novel between 1840 and 1920
Tamara Radak, Lou Burnard, Pieter Francois, Fotis Jannidis, Diana Santos<\/p>\n

15:30-16:00: Break<\/p>\n

16:00-17:30: Session 2a, \u201cAnalysing ELTeC: Named Entities\u201d<\/strong>
(1) A fine-grained recognition of Named Entities in ELTeC collection using cascades
Cvetana Krstev, Denis Maurel, Ranka Stankovi\u0107
(2) Distant Reading of ELTeC text collection through Named Entities
Ranka Stankovi\u0107, Diana Santos, Carmen Brando, G\u00e1bor Palk\u00f3, Joanna Byszuk
(3) HuWikifier as a distant reading device?
G\u00e1bor Palk\u00f3, Tam\u00e1s Kiss<\/p>\n

16:00-17:30: Session 2b, \u201cAlso Analysing ELTeC: space and time\u201d<\/strong>
(1) Emotions and space: an investigation of \u201curban\u201d vs. \u201crural\u201d emotional language in Swiss-German fiction around 1900
Julia Grisot, Berenike Herrmann
(2) The Chronological Analysis of Textual Data. A statistical perspective
Fabio Ciotti, Stefano Ondelli, Andrea Sciandra, Floriana Sciumbata, Matilde Trevisani, Luca Tringali, Arjuna Tuzzi
(3) Sentence length across ELTeC collections and Gutenberg Fiction
Christof Sch\u00f6ch<\/p>\n

18:00-19:30: Evening keynote<\/strong>
Evening Keynote: Prof. Dr. Karina van Dalen-Oskam<\/strong> (University of Amsterdam and The Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands, Netherlands)<\/p>\n

FRIDAY<\/span>,\u00a0APRIL<\/span>\u00a022, 2022<\/strong><\/h4>\n

9:00-10:00: Session 3, \u201cAnalysing ELTeC some more: style and characters\u201d<\/strong>
(1) ELTeC and Delta in eleven languages: relatively good news for stylometrists
Jan Rybicki
(2) Imagined differences: approaches to variation in fictional character voices in literary history
Artjoms \u0160e\u013ca, Joanna Byszuk, Bartlomiej Kunda, Laura Hern\u00e1ndez-Lorenzo, Botond Szemes, Maciej Eder<\/p>\n

10:15-11:15: Session 4, \u201cWorkflows and infrastructure requirements\u201d<\/strong>
(1) Beyond Babylonian Confusion: a case study-based approach for multilingual\u00a0NLP<\/span>\u00a0on historical literature
Tess Dejaeghere, Julie M. Birkholz, Els Lefever, Christophe Verbruggen
(2) Computational Literary Studies data landscape review and online catalogue
Ingo B\u00f6rner, Vera Maria Charvat, Matej \u010eur\u010do, Micha\u0142 Mrugalski, Carolin Odebrecht<\/p>\n

11:45-13:15: Session 5a, \u201cBeyond ELTeC texts\u201d<\/strong>
(1) What\u2019s in a preface? Sentiment analysis of liminal matter in\u00a0ELTEC<\/span>\u00a0collections
Rosario Arias, Javier Fern\u00e1ndez-Cruz, Ioana Galleron, Mar\u00eda Garc\u00eda-G\u00e1mez, Fr\u00e9d\u00e9rique M\u00e9lanie-Becquet, Roxana Patras, Chantal P\u00e9rez-Hern\u00e1ndez, Olga Seminck
(2) To catch a protagonist \u2026 once again. An attempt to recreate a corpus-based study using Linked Data
Ingo B\u00f6rner, Peer Trilcke, Frank Fischer, Carsten Milling, Henny Sluyter-G\u00e4thje<\/p>\n

11:45-13:15: Session 5b, \u201cDistant Reading\u201d<\/strong>
(1) Distant Reading for European Literary History: ELTeC, digital sources and digital archives for studying Romanian literature
Luiza Catrinel Marinescu
(2) Combining close and distant reading: A plausible way forward?
Meliha Handzic, Vedad Mulavdic
(3) Beginning with the age-old challenges. Building a didactic resource for digital literature studies
Mads Rosendahl Thomsen<\/p>\n

14:15-15:45: Closing ceremony with closing keynote<\/strong>
Closing Keynote: Dr. Oleg Sobchuk<\/strong> (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany)
Ceremonial handover to\u00a0CLS<\/span>\u00a0INFRA<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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