🎉 Today, we celebrate the publication of the final article from @jcls-io.bsky.social' 2024 conference track #JCLS 3 (1). We’re thrilled to see groundbreaking research in computational literary studies and can’t wait for what’s next! #CCLS24 #CLS #CCLS25 #DigitalHumanities #Computing

Journal of Computational Literary Studies

@evelyngius.bsky.social as one of the editors, supported by @julianhaeussler.bsky.social and @guhrs.bsky.social as editorial assistants, ensured the smooth copyediting and publication process of @jcls-io.bsky.social 3 (1). #CLS #CCLS24 #Journal #JCLS jcls.io

In #2024, our lab took over a crucial part of editing the conference issue of the Journal of Computational Literary Studies. #JCLS #CCLS24 jcls.io

Call for Papers

After #JCLS 3(1) conference track #CCLS24 is before #CCLS25. We look forward to your submissions! Please find our Call for Papers for the conference track 2025 at jcls.io/site/cfp/ #ComputationalLiteraryStudies #CCLS25 #CfP #Literary #Computing #CLS

Repetition and Innovation in Dramatic Texts. An Attempt to Measure the Degree of Novelty in Character's Speech In the following, we examine how innovative dramatic characters are in relation to each other, i.e., whether they tend to repeat the utterances of others or introduce new information to the discourse ...

@botondszemes.bsky.social and Nagy investigate how dramatic characters innovate or repeat discourse, creating #networks to reveal new relationship dynamics and uncovering patterns in gender roles across #Shakespeare ’s #comedies and #tragedies. doi.org/10.48694/jcl... #CCLS24 #CLS #JCLS #Similarity

Journal of Computational Literary Studies | Issue: Issue: 1(3) (2024)

The conference issue's final article of 2024 is by Szemes and Nagy: "Repetition and Innovation in Dramatic Texts. An Attempt to Measure the Degree of Novelty in Character's Speech" (10.48694/jcls.3923). Check it out at: jcls.io/issue/109/in... #JCLS #CCLS24 #Shakespeare @botondszemes.bsky.social

Journal of Computational Literary Studies

As the final days of 2024 approach, we are excited to announce the final article of the JCLS 3 (1) conference issue, concluding the JCLS year of 2024. #DigitalHumanities #CCLS24 jcls.io

BookNLP-fr, the French Versant of BookNLP. A Tailored Pipeline for 19th and 20th Century French Literature This paper presents BookNLP-fr: the adaptation to French of BookNLP, an existing NLP pipeline tailored for literary texts in English. We provide an overview of the challenges involved in the adaptatio...

Mélanie-Becquet et al. introduce BookNLP-fr, a French adaptation of the #BookNLP pipeline by @dbamman.bsky.social et al., enhancing #genre classification with interpretable features and expanding tools for #distantreading in #CLS. doi.org/10.48694/jcl... #CCLS24 #NLP #DigitalHumanities #DH

Journal of Computational Literary Studies | Issue: Issue: 1(3) (2024)

This week, we announce another article from JCLS 3 (1): Mélanie-Becquet et al. "BookNLP-fr, the French Versant of BookNLP. A Tailored Pipeline for 19th and 20th Century French Literature" (10.48694/jcls.3924). Check it out at: jcls.io/issue/109/in... #CLS #JCLS #DigitalHumanities #CCLS24 #BookNLP

A Stylometric Analysis of Seneca's disputed plays. Authorship Verification of <em>Octavia</em> and <em>Hercules Oetaeus</em> Seneca's authorship of Octavia and Hercules Oetaeus is disputed. This study employs established computational stylometry methods based on character n-gram frequencies to investigate this case. Based o...

Agapitos and van Cranenburgh use computational #stylometry to show that while 'Octavia' and 'Hercules Oetaeus' were largely written by #Seneca, a closer analysis of the text segments reveals signs of mixed #authorship. doi.org/10.48694/jcl... #CLS #CCLS24 #Classics #AuthorshipVerification

Journal of Computational Literary Studies | Issue: Issue: 1(3) (2024)

This week, we announce the seventh article from JCLS 3 (1): Agapitos and van Cranenburgh "A Stylometric Analysis of Seneca's Disputed Plays" (10.48694/jcls.3919). Check it out at: jcls.io/issue/109/in... #ComputationalLiteraryStudies #CLS #JCLS #DigitalHumanities #CCLS24

Measuring Literary Quality. Proxies and Perspectives Computational studies of literature use proxies like sales numbers, human judgments, or canonicity to estimate literary quality. However, many quantitative use one such measure as a gold standard with...

Feldkamp et al. reveal diverse perspectives on literary quality and show that expert opinion often conflicts with crowd-sourced ratings & award nominations, highlighting the complexity of measuring literary quality. doi.org/10.48694/jcl... #CLS #CCLS24 #LiteraryQuality #CulturalAnalytics

Journal of Computational Literary Studies | Issue: Issue: 1(3) (2024)

And the publication series continues: Today we announce the sixth article from JCLS 3 (1): Feldkamp et al. "Measuring Literary Quality. Proxies and Perspectives" (10.48694/jcls.3908). Check it out at: jcls.io/issue/109/in... #ComputationalLiteraryStudies #CLS #JCLS #DigitalHumanities #CCLS24

From Review to Genre to Novel and Back. An Attempt to Relate Reader Impact to Phenomena of Novel Text We are interested in the textual features that correlate with the re- ported impact by readers of novels. We operationalize impact measurement through a rule-based reading impact model and apply it to...

Koolen et al. analyzed 634,614 reader reviews to identify how genre-specific terms relate to the impact novels have on readers, revealing insights into readers' motivations. doi.org/10.48694/jcl... #CLS #CCLS24

Journal of Computational Literary Studies | Issue: Issue: 1(3) (2024)

Today we're announcing the fifth article from JCLS 3 (1): Koolen et al. "From Review to Genre to Novel and Back" (10.48694/jcls.3927). Check it out at jcls.io/issue/109/in... #ComputationalLiteraryStudies #CLS #JCLS #DigitalHumanities #CCLS24

Visualization as Defamiliarization. Mixed Methods Approaches to Historical Book Reviews This paper employs a dialectical mixed methods approach to revisit a previous study in comparative literature on discourses in literary criticism, using data visualizations to analyze the original mat...

Brodén et al. revisit Samuelsson's (2013) comparative literature study by analyzing 700 digitized reviews from 1906, 1956, and 2006 through data visualizations, using Shklovsky's "defamiliarization" to uncover new insights. doi.org/10.48694/jcl... #CLS #CCLS24

Journal of Computational Literary Studies | Issue: Issue: 1(3) (2024)

We're thrilled to announce the fourth article from JCLS 3 (1): Brodén et al. "Visualization as Defamiliarization" (10.48694/jcls.3926). The article can be found at: jcls.io/issue/109/in... #ComputationalLiteraryStudies #CLS #JCLS #DigitalHumanities #CCLS24

It's an exciting week for JCLS! We're delighted to announce the fourth article of JCLS 3 (1) as well as the call for papers for next year's conference issue! #CCLS24 and #CCLS25 #CLS #JCLS #DigitalHumanities

Neither Telling nor Describing. Reflective Passages and Perceived Reflectiveness 1700–1945 The paper analyses within-fiction reflections in 250 years of literary history. To this end, we formalised the concept of “reflective passage”, demonstrate how our annotation categories are deduced fr...

Gittel et al. formalize "reflective passages" in literature, using a neural classifier to identify three types—COMMENT, GENERALISATION, and NON-FICTIONAL SPEECH—across 250 years of German fiction, uncovering peak periods of reflection around 1755,1835, and 1920. doi.org/10.48694/jcl... #CLS #CCLS24

Journal of Computational Literary Studies | Issue: Issue: 1(3) (2024)

And the publication series continues: Today we're announcing another article from JCLS 3 (1): Gittel et al. "Neither Telling nor Describing" (10.48694/jcls.3861). Check it out at jcls.io/issue/109/in... #ComputationalLiteraryStudies #CLS #JCLS #DigitalHumanities #CCLS24

It’s time for the next edition: We’re excited to start publishing the articles of this year’s #JCLS conference issue! Stay tuned! #CLS #DigitalHumanities #DH #CCLS24

The Anxiety of Prestige in Stephen King’s Stylistics This paper introduces a term, the anxiety of prestige, to examine thematic or stylistic textual commentaries by generally considered “popular” fiction authors on issues of literary prestige, with Step...

Ketzan/Eve introduce the term "anxiety of prestige" to explore how "popular" fiction authors, like Stephen King, address literary prestige by analyzing stylistic choices.
doi.org/10.48694/jcl... #LiteraryStudies #CLS #StephenKing #PopularFiction #Prestige #Fiction #CCLS24

Journal of Computational Literary Studies | Issue: Issue: 1(3) (2024)

We're thrilled to announce the first two articles of JCLS 3 (1):
jcls.io/issue/109/in... #ComputationalLiteraryStudies #CLS #JCLS #DigitalHumanities #CCLS24

3rd Annual Conference of Computational Literary Studies

About 3.5 months ago, #CCLS24 took place in beautiful Vienna (jcls.io/site/ccls2024/). We had an exciting program of talks by researchers from the international Computational Literary Studies community. #ComputationalLiteraryStudies #CLS #JCLS #DigitalHumanities

@jcls It’s time for the next edition: We’re excited to start publishing the articles of this year’s #JCLS conference issue! Stay tuned! #CLS #DigitalHumanities #DH #CCLS24