Today’s the day! Submit your abstract by midnight AoE and be part of our 5th Annual Conference #CCLS2026 @dhpotsdam.bsky.social !!! 💻📚🔦🔍

#LiteraryComputing #JCLS #DigitalHumanities

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Today’s the day! Submit your abstract by midnight AoE and be part of our 5th Annual Conference #CCLS2026 @dh_potsdam !!! 💻📚🔦🔍

#LiteraryComputing #JCLS #DigitalHumanities

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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

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I’ll be in Santiago de Chile (March 23–27) and would love to connect with folks working in Digital Humanities / Computational Literary Studies.

Any recommendations or contacts I should reach out to?
#CLS #DH #LiteraryComputing #Networking #JCLS

JCLS Welcome Slide of the Board Meeting 2026

Today was our annual board meeting, where the editors reported on the first 4 issues of #JCLS with statistics on the submission/acceptance ratio, conference participation, and the accelerated publication process since the first issue.
#LiteraryComputing #Journal #CCLS2026 #NewYear #Issue5

JCLS Workflow from CfP to Publication

At the moment, we're screening your articles and sending out the #review requests. If you want to know more about our #workflow, see: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... and doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

#CCLS2026 #journal #LiteraryComputing #JCLS #OpenAccess #DoubleBlind #Review

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Thank you for all the submissions we received for this year's #JCLS conference track!
#CLS #CCLS2026 #LiteraryComputing #DH #Conference

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📢 New article in #JCLS 5(1)! 🎉
@axelpichler.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy, Endres, M. & @nilsreiter.de (2026) “#Interpretation, Argument, #Evaluation. A Workflow for Assessing #LLM-Generated Interpretations of #Poetry” doi.org/10.48694/jcl...

#RollingIssue #NLG #CLS #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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Service skeet: 1 hour and 2 minutes left till the #CfP closes! 💻
#JCLS #CCLS2026 #DigitalHumanities #LiteraryComputing #AoE

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📢 The call for papers for the conference track is closing soon. Submit by tonight, January 8 (AoE), and be part of #CCLS2026 in beautiful Potsdam this May. #CfP #CLS #OpenAccess #JCLS #ComputationalLiteraryStudies #LiteraryComputing
ℹ️ jcls.io/site/cfp/

Happy new year 2026

#JCLS wishes everyone a wonderful, healthy, and happy 2026! We hope you had a great winter break and are looking forward to another year of computational literary studies. #CCLS2026 #CfP #LiteraryComputing #CLS #DH

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🚨Call for Papers for #CCLS2026!

Want to publish a #CLS journal article in 8-12 months with #double-blind #PeerReview, conference #preprint, open peer review, code review, and beautiful design?

Submit by January 8, 2026, and be part of #JCLS and our conference in May! 🚀

jcls.io/site/cfp/

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📢 We celebrate the publication of our 50st article! 📢
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💻📚 jcls.io 📚💻
#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

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After #CHR2025 is before #CCLS2026!

Did you enjoy the #CLS discussions? Any new papers drafted yet? 🔜 Join us in Potsdam in May for #CCLS2026 to continue the conversation!
🗓️ CfP deadline: January 8!
#ComputationalLiteraryStudies #JCLS jcls.io/site/cfp/ #CfP @comphumresearch.bsky.social

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

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New article in #JCLS 4(1)! 📢
We’re excited to announce “Do Large Language Models Understand Literature? Case Studies and Probing Experiments on German Poetry” by @fotisjannidis.bsky.social, Kleymann, @julianschroeter.bsky.social & Zinsmeister. doi.org/10.48694/jcls.4225
#JCLS #CLS #LLM #Poetry

Call for Paper from website

Excited about the #JCLS articles and working on a #ComputationalLiteraryStudies draft yourself?
Be part of the journal and submit to our Conference Track by January 8: jcls.io/site/cfp/
#CCLS2026 #CLS #LiteraryComputing #CfP

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New article in #JCLS 4(1)! 🎉
Du, Ackerschewski, Navruz, Sınır, Valline & @christofs.bsky.social: “Reconstructing Shuffled Text. Bad Results for #NLP, but Good News for Using #In-Copyright Texts” doi.org/10.48694/jcl...

#CLS #DTF #LiteraryComputing #CCLS25 #OpenScience #Copyright

Event Detection between Literary Studies and NLP. A Survey, a Narratological Reflection, and a Case Study Narrative structure in fiction relies on the strategic presentation of events, where the ordering and disclosure of information (syuzhet) shape reader engagement and tension. This study outlines a com...

New article in #JCLS 4(1)! 🎉
Visser Solissa, van Cranenburgh & @fpianz.bsky.social present a model for detecting syuzhet—the ordering and disclosure of events that shape a narrative—and formalize event annotation in fiction across multiple languages.
#CCLS25 #ComputationalNarratology

Exploring Measures of Distinctiveness. An Evaluation Using Synthetic Texts Measures of distinctiveness (aka keyness) are important tools for comparing groups of texts to identify each group's characteristic features. Evaluating these measures is essential to ensure their rel...

As always, #OpenData and #OpenCode are persistently available:
Havrylash, J., & Schöch, C. (2025). Syntetic texts evaluation with #pydistinto. Zenodo. 10.5281/zenodo.15525428.
And the article: doi.org/10.48694/jcl...
#JCLS #CCLS205 #LiteraryComputing #NLG #Evaluation

Journal of Computational Literary Studies | Issue: Issue: 1(4) (2025)

New article in #JCLS 4(1)! 🎉
Havrylash & @christofs.bsky.social introduce a method for evaluating measures of #distinctiveness ( #keyness ) using synthetically generated, fully controlled text data.
#CLS #TextAnalysis #Evaluation #NLP #NLG #LiteraryComputing #CCLS25
jcls.io/issue/118/in...

Journal of Computational Literary Studies | Issue: Issue: 1(4) (2025)

New week, new article in #JCLS 4(1)! 🚀
We’re excited to announce @andrewpiper.bsky.social: “Towards a Perspectival Moral History of the Novel Using #LLMs”. Using 9,000+ Wikipedia plot summaries, he asks: What life lessons do stories quietly teach us at scale?
#CCLS25 #CLS #LiteraryComputing

Figure 1: Gender classification for a character at different levels of granularity (blue = masculine, red = feminine). Saturation indicates model confidence.

Keith et al. develop quantitative methods to examine how gender is portrayed across 100+ 17th-century plays by #Calderón.
#CLS #DigitalHumanities #JCLS #LiteraryComputing #Plays #CCLS25 @dracor.org

Journal of Computational Literary Studies | Issue: Issue: 1(4) (2025)

We're thrilled to announce a new article from #JCLS 4 (1): Keith, A., @antoniorojascastro.bsky.social, Ehrlicher, H., Jung, K. & Padó, S. (2025): #ComputationalAnalysis of #Gender Depiction in the #Comedias of #Calderón de la Barca (10.48694/jcls.4055) can be found at #CLS #CCLS25 #Theatre

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

From Readers to Data. Uncertainty in Computational Literary Citizen Science We examine uncertainty in computational literary citizen science by analysing The Hebrew Novel Project, a large-scale initiative collecting reader interpretations of Hebrew novels. While citizen scien...

This week, we announce another article from #JCLS 4 (1):
Gilad Aviel Jacobson, @itaymm.bsky.social, and Yael Dekel. “From Readers to Data: #Uncertainty in Computational Literary Citizen Science” (10.48694/jcls.4169).
Check it out at: jcls.io/issue/118/in... #CLS #CCLS25 #CitizenScience