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🥳 It's time for a new article in #JCLS 5 (1)!
@nmhouston.bsky.social. 2026. “Rhymefindr. An Historical Poetics Method for Identifying Rhymes in Nineteenth-Century English Poetry.”
🔗 doi.org/10.48694/jcl...
#CCLS2025 #ComputationalPoetics #DigitalHumanities #LiteraryComputing

Figure 2: Histplot using the norms and entropies of example sentences among the most and least imageable sentences from the 9,000 sampled sentences of the Chicago Corpus as references.

🧠📊 How can we measure imageability in literary texts?
The authors approach how words evoke sensory experience and test whether multimodal #WordEmbeddings can better capture #imageability, #visuality, and #concreteness than text-only models, from words to sentences to poems.
#CCLS2025 #JCLS #CLS

🆕 New issue, new article!
We’re excited to open JCLS 2026, 5(1) with its very first publication:
“Encoding Imagism? Measuring Literary #Imageability, #Visuality and #Concreteness via Multimodal Word #Embeddings” by Bizzoni, @pascaleispunk.bsky.social & Nielbo. 📖✨
#JCLS #CCLS2025 #LiteraryStudies

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📢 We celebrate the publication of our 50st article! 📢
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#JCLS #CCLS2025 🔜 #CCLS2026 #LiteraryComputing
#ComputationalLiteraryStudies #Milestone

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🎉 Milestone alert! 🎉
We’re thrilled to announce our 50th article!

New in JCLS 4(1): @danja.bsky.social & @nevmenandr.bsky.social. “The Outward Turn. Geocoding the Expansion of Fictional Space in Russian 19th-Century Literature”🔗 doi.org/10.48694/jcl...
#JCLS #CCLS2025 #LiteraryMaps #LiteraryStudies

The authors discover that #LLMs perform surprisingly well on semantic relations and non-literal meaning but struggle with formal features like syllable counting and meter. They also tend to prefer established readings over original insights.
#Poetry #LiteraryComputing #CCLS2025 #CLS #JCLS

They investigate how #LLMs handle poetic understanding across, e.g., meter, rhyme, syntax, figurative language, testing it on two German poems and across three levels of interaction: General Knowledge, Expert Knowledge, Abstraction & Transfer.
#JCLS #CCLS2025 #CLS #poetry

From Readers to Data - JCLS 2025 data (EXCEL) and code (Matlab 2024b) for JCLS submission Data 240813 - Key Novel Dataset - 9 - removed pilot entries.xlsx This file has been manually pre-processed to remove pilot questionnaires (that...

As always: #OpenData and #OpenCode
Dekel, Y., Marienberg-Milikowsky, I., & Jacobson, G. A. (2025). "From Readers to Data." #JCLS 2025. Data set. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zeno....
#CCLS2025 #CLS #CitizenScience #Hebrew #LiteraryComputing #CulturalAnalytics

julianeugarten/CCLS2025: Finalized CCLS paper code Code and derived data for a paper submitted to CCLS2025.

Open Data & Code can be found archived on doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

#DigitalHumanities #CulturalAnalytics #ComputationalLiteraryStudies #CCLS2025 #CLS #JCLS

Exciting to see my publication with @stanfordlitlab.bsky.social in #JCLS 4(1)! It's been such a great journey discovering #DomesticSpace in 19th-Century #English-language #fiction and presenting our results at #CCLS2025. 🏡🚢🏙️🌉

We're thrilled to see our publication out this week! 🥳
#JCLS is such a great place to publish our project results.
Many thanks to the editorial team for the quick publication process and for the great discussion at #CCLS2025!

--> #Code&Data can be found here:
github.com/literarylab/...

Making BERT Feel at Home. Modelling Domestic Space in 19th-Century British and Irish Fiction We introduce a novel approach to detecting domestic space in literary texts beyond explicit spatial markers like “home” or “house.” Using a pre-trained English BERT model fine-tuned on manually annota...

🚨 The new week starts with a new #JCLS 4(1) publication! The next article of this year's conference track, #CCLS2025, is here! doi.org/10.48694/jcl...

First page of JCLS Article by Maria Levchenko

- Methodology & results on JCLS 4(1): doi.org/10.48694/jcl...
A model for studying cultural communities far beyond St. Petersburg.

#DigitalHumanities #CulturalNetworkAnalysis #ComputationalLiteraryStudies #CCLS2025 #CLS #JCLS

Reading with Computers: The Conference of Computational Literary Studies 2025 The Conference of Computational Literary Studies (CCLS), which is now in its 4th year, has quickly become an important touchstone for the scholarly community around digital and computational literary studies. This year’s conference was held at Jagiellonian University in the beautiful city of Krakow. This is the courtyard of the breathtaking Collegium Maius, the location for our conference dinner and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture taken by Svenja Guhr Over the course of two days and six sessions – comprised of sixteen talks and one long-awaited keynote – some interesting shared focal points and concerns for the area of CLS emerged. It is perhaps to be expected that our field is now asking itself challenging questions about large language models: do these models understand literature? What does it even mean to understand literature? And can LLMs be used to identify the moral of a story? A second interesting strand of research revolved around the representation of space in literary works. A variety of papers tackled the topic of literary space and place in innovative and diverse ways: from geocoding to machine learning and from analyzing literary modes of transportation to measuring how easily literary worlds can be visualized. Another interesting set of papers clustered around the analysis of literary reception: how do texts impact readers and circulate in society? This included forays into literary citizen science, the mapping of literary communities in contemporary St. Petersburg, and my own research, which revolves around the reception and rewriting of Greek mythology in contemporary online fanfiction. Bernini, Gian Lorenzo, “The Rape of Proserpina”, Galleria Borghese, Rome. (1621-22), World History Encyclopedia Specifically, I presented an analysis of fanfiction about the mythological figures Hades and Persephone. Most canonical versions of this myth are characterized by an explicitly unequal power dynamic, since Persephone is kidnapped and sexually assaulted by Hades. The moment of her violent abduction was immortalized in the famous statue by Bernini. Through a computational analysis of the verbs associated with the fictional characters of Hades and Persephone in contemporary fanfiction, I measured the power dynamics portrayed in this fanfiction. The fan-written stories are varied: some portray the unequal, patriarchal power dynamics familiar from traditional versions of the myth, others rewrite the relationship to subvert canonical expectations. I also found that stories with a bigger power imbalance were less popular with readers, which led me to the title for my paper: a powerful Hades is an unpopular dude. Me – Julia Neugarten – introducing fanfiction at the start of my presentation. Picture taken by Svenja Guhr. Overall, we had an inspiring and diverse conference – more diverse than I can describe in a short blogpost, so I encourage you to check out all of the contributions yourself. The atmosphere was curious, inquisitive, and supportive, for which I want to thank the organizers and everyone who participated. Next year, CCLS will celebrate its 5th anniversary at the Potsdam Digital Humanities Network. * * * OpenEdition suggests that you cite this post as follows: Julia Neugarten (August 3, 2025). Reading with Computers: The Conference of Computational Literary Studies 2025. _Digital Literary Studies (SIG-DLS)_. Retrieved August 5, 2025 from https://doi.org/10.58079/14ghi * * * * * * * *

Relaying from @rebsim:

Julia Neugarten, recipient of the 2024 SIG-DLS stipend, shares her experience at the recent Conference of Computational Literary Studies (Krakow, July 3-4, 2025), #CCLS2025

You can read her post here: https://dls.hypotheses.org/2046

While just last week we were gathered in beautiful Kraków for #CCLS2025, discussing the latest in #ComputationalLiteraryStudies, next week we meet again, this time at the #DH2025 conference in sunny Lisbon! ☀️

Last week @fortextlab.bsky.social members @evelyngius.bsky.social and @julianhaeussler.bsky.social, as well as fortext lab alum @guhrs.bsky.social, spend two intense and insightful days at #CCLS2025 in beautiful Krakow, Poland. Looking forward to the future of #CLS! @jcls-io.bsky.social

Noa Visser Solissa presenting at CCLS2025

The 2nd talk is by Noa Visser Solissa, Andreas van Cranenburgh and @fpianz.bsky.social: Event Detection between Literary Studies and NLP. A Survey, a Narratological Reflection, and a Case Study (doi.org/10.26083/tup...)
#CCLS2025 #EventDetection #ComputationalNarratology
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On my way home after an excellent conference, of the highest level. It was inspiring! My head is full of thoughts and ideas for the future. A heartfelt thank you to the wonderful editors of the journal, and to the local hosts! I'm proud to be a member in such an intellectual community. #CCLS2025

Guided city tour through Krakow. #CCLS2025 #AfterParty

Had a great time presenting my research today at #CCLS2025! It was wonderful to engage with such a lively community.

Not had enough of #CCLS2025 yet? Next year is already our fifth anniversary! Get excited for #CCLS2026 in Potsdam! @dhpotsdam.bsky.social 🥳
#ComputationalLiteraryStudies #CLS #DH #LiteraryComputing

Many thanks to the programme committee and organizers for a fatastic #CCLS2025!

#DigitalHumanities #CLS #LLM @jcls-io.bsky.social @clsinfra.bsky.social

The last session has ended. We hope you enjoyed discussing #ComputationalLiteraryStudies with us, whether online or on-site, at Jagiellonian University in Kraków.
A big thank you to the local organizers, the JCLS reviewers, and all the volunteers who helped make #CCLS2025 a success!

It's already the last talk of #CCLS2025 😱

Yuri Bizzoni, @pascaleispunk.bsky.social, Kristoffer L. Nielbo: Encoding Imagism? Measuring Literary Imageability, Visuality and Concreteness via Multimodal Word Embeddings (doi.org/10.26083/tup...)
#Measuring #LiteraryImageability #WordEmbeddings

Next talk at #CCLS2025 is by Allison Keith, Antonio Rojas Castro, Hanno Ehrlicher, Kerstin Jung, Sebastian Padó: A Computational Analysis of Character Archetypes in the Works of Calderón de la Barca (doi.org/10.26083/tup...)
#Characters #Drama #Calderón

The last session of #CCLS2025 is about to start with a talk by Julia Havrylash, @christofs.bsky.social: Exploring Measures of Distinctiveness. An Evaluation Using Synthetic Texts (doi.org/10.26083/tup...)
#Distinctiveness #SyntheticTexts #Evaluation

The third talk is by @andrewpiper.bsky.social: Towards a Moral History of the Novel Using Large Language Models (doi.org/10.26083/tup...)
#CCLS2025 #Moral #LLMs

The first talk of Day 2 of #CCLS2025 is by @katrohrbacher.bsky.social: Opening Worlds: Narrative Beginnings and the Role of Setting (doi.org/10.26083/tup...)
#Space #NovelOpenings #Narrative

The 2nd day of #CCLS2025 has started.
Today, we have another round of 6 exciting talks on #ComputationalLiteraryStudies:

Excited for the conference dinner 🤩 #CCLS2025 in the Stuba Communis at Collegium Maius, Krakow