Past events

Text vs Visual. Multimodal challenges in the Digital Humanities

A multi-part event at the Centre for Information Modelling at the University of Graz.

organized by Philipp Hofeneder

Scholarly knowledge is created through the interaction of different modalities. The written and printed word traditionally occupies a central position. In contrast, visuali-sations have established themselves as an important alternative in the scientific com-munity. They have evolved from a purely representational element in the communica-tion of already formulated scientific results to a mostly interested lay audience to an important methodological approach in the development of knowledge.
Until now, these two modes have been largely considered separately from each other and from a single disciplinary perspective. Texts and visualisations are seen as complementary ways of creating and communicating knowledge. The question of the direct relationship between these two modes remains largely unresolved. Who as-sumes which functions in the constitution of scholarly knowledge? What alternative approaches exist beyond the opposition of linear forms of appearance (text) and spatial arrangements (visualisations)? Which hybrid and overlapping solutions can be used effectively?
Different perspectives on these questions will be discussed in this event format. Aspects of both digital and traditional humanities will be addressed and practical ap-proaches will be emphasised. The format consists of several parts, at the end of which a position paper will be published. Interested parties will have the opportunity to ac-tively participate in this process through a keynote speech, a hybrid workshop and a public review process.

The program:

Wednesday, May 8 2024, 12:00-1:00 p.m
keynote by Stefan Haas (Göttingen) “Visualization as Gamechanger in Historiography”
Venue: Zentrum für Informationsmodellierung, Elisabethstraße 59/III, 8010 Graz, 3rd floor, room 81.31
Link to uniMEET
Abstract: Visualization is one of the most consequential game changers in all contemporary sciences. It changes how we encode knowledge in a medium and how we decode it in the process of reception. By doing so the structure of knowledge itself is changed. This is particu-larly evident in two areas: heuristics, in which hypotheses are derived from a first sketch of the empirical material, and narration, in which knowledge is passed on. The lecture deals with the basic structures of this fundamental change.

Tuesday, May 14 2024, 5:00-6:30 p.m
round table “Text vs. Visual. Methodological approaches and practical applications” with Linda Freyberg (Berlin), Philipp Hofeneder (Graz), Christian Wachter (Bielefeld), Florian Windhager (Krems)
Venue: Zentrum für Informationsmodellierung, Elisabethstraße 59/III, 8010 Graz, 3rd floor, room 81.31
Link to uniMEET
Abstract: This round table will discuss the relationship between text and visualization from different perspectives. Four different experts will present their perspectives in ten minutes. Afterwards, there will be an opportunity to ask questions and make comments. A detailed presentation of the individual contributions can be found below.

Wednesday, May 15 2024, 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m
closed workshop with the participants of the round table working on a joint paper

September – December 2024
public peer review of joint paper at the “Zeitschrift für digitale Geisteswissenschaften”; reviews by Jana Pflaeging (Salzburg), Tuomo Hiippala (Helsinki)

2025
publication of joint paper

Abstracts for the round table on May 14:

Linda FREYBERG
Image vs. Text - Visualizations as epistemic agents for the Digital Humanities

From a semiotic point of view, visualizations firstly are images and act as icon signs, which in terms of diagrammatic reasoning have an epistemic effect. According to Peirce “[a]ll necessary reasoning without exception is diagrammatic“. In particular, based on abductive reasoning visualizations are able to create new knowledge on account of their topological depiction of objects and their relations. In comparison to that textual expressions are strictly symbolical signs with (in most languages) an arbitrary relation to their represented objects. On the one hand text is highly restricted by the rules of a language and is limited in terms of creative expression within the reasoning process. On the other hand, text can be highly precise and accurate. Both forms of expression are embedded in a specific cultural and historical context. Therefore, visualizations also act as symbols and serve as iconic agents through their iconographical embodiment, which reflect on, but also contribute to cultural change. Just like images, visualizations may suggest evidence or realities that remain vague or suggestive only. In Digital Humanities research in particular the realm of cultural heritage data calls for both, accuracy and plurality in order to express explorative and narrative approaches to multimodal data.

Philipp HOFENEDER
Visualization Data Sheets - providing sources for academic reusability

The aim of scholarly work is to generate organised and reliable knowledge. To this end, primary and secondary sources are cited as well as direct and indirect quotations that categorise one's own findings in existing research and make them comprehensible. While these elements are among the basic requirements for texts, comparable approaches for visualisations are only in their infancy. In this contribution, I would like to discuss data sheets as a possible approach for visualisations in a scientific context. These data sheets are known from industry (e.g. for components, materials, products) and describe the properties, possible applications and technical data of. Data sheets for visualisations could include technical questions (which programs were used, where and in what form should the visualisation be used?), conceptual considerations (who is the visualisation aimed at, what should it achieve?), possible templates (best practice examples) and the data on which the visualisation is based. As such they not only provide a compact overview of relevant information on a visualisation and thus significantly increase usability, but also make visualisations - similar to texts - easier to understand and cite.

Christian WACHTER
Mapping Knowledge: Navigating the Complex Web of Ideas in Scholarly Publications through Multimodal Digital Interfaces

Humanities scholars structure their works according to the logical progression of their arguments and narrative order. This construction is mirrored in the layout of chapters and sections, where the table of contents serves as a symbolic tool that is, in fact, multimodal because it spatially organizes these elements. Although this method adeptly represents the linear succession of argumentative and narrative steps, it cannot fully capture multivocal concepts—historical entanglements, diverse viewpoints in societal discourses, and other nonlinear phenomena that defy straightforward hierarchical categorization. In this light, my talk proposes expanding the multimodal capacities of tables of contents in digital publications through interactive abstract maps, akin to concept maps. While there are existing efforts to merge traditional content tables with dynamic maps, they often fall short, either clinging too tightly to conventional formats or creating abstract networks that lack clear, user-friendly labels. My discussion will pivot on strategies for developing content maps that reveal more explicitly the publication’s contents and their flexible interconnections. Exploiting the multimodal potential of textual and visual media is fundamental for this goal.

Florian WINDHAGER
Worth 10.000 Words? - You wish!
On Semiotic Modality Wars & (Future) Collaborations in Humanities Departments

It’s simple, technically: We have to stake out and stabilize a position against the iconoclasts (i.e. humanists, mindlessly thrashing visualizations), but also against the logoclasts (i.e. visualization and computer scientists, not aware of the relevance and richness of humanists’ text-based discourse). Obviously, getting there would be easier, if we would have benefitted from a more multimodal and collegial understanding of both the world and our (commonly quite multimodal) thinking about it. Or put in structural terms: From a more balanced training of textual and visual literacies—and from a more even-keeled culture of scholarly knowledge representation. That would help to be aware of the obvious strengths-and-limitations of both (and other) semiotic modalities and all their instantiations. And thus also to know about the stunning benefits of combining them for deeper sensemaking within the semiotic torrents and flash floods of modern society. So that we can cut short on the -clasms and move towards closer collaborations on more productive meshworks of hyper-image-&-text-assemblies. Which are arguably needed everywhere. The overall aim is to couch this conflictoclastic message and the related multi-century working-programme in an agreeable and reasonably short statement.

DigEdTnT: Webinar series

19.09.2023 | 03.10.2023 | 17.10.2023 | 31.10.2023 | 14.11.2023

The project Digital Edition Creation Pipelines: Tools and Transitions (DigEdTnT), funded by the Funding Call 2022: Interoperability and Reusability of DH Data and Tools of CLARIAH-AT, aims to create best practices and tutorials for selected tools and their transitions. The brief instructions and descriptions of transcription, annotation, normalization and publication processes with various tools are intended to help with the project-specific choice of a tool on the one hand, and to facilitate the first steps in working with a new tool for creating digital editions on the other. The transitions presented in the webinars deal primarily with the challenges that arise, for example, when the results of transcription with FromThePage are transferred to ediarum for further annotation or when the documents annotated in FairCopy are to be published after their export using ediarum.WEB.

The results will be published on a homepage on an ongoing basis and will be expanded and revised by the end of 2023.

The event will be held online and will take place every Tuesday, 17:00-18:00. No registration is required for online participation, the stream (Zoom) will be freely accessible.

Program

• 19.09.2023 - FromThePage [Transcription] → ediarum.BASE [Annotation]
• 03.10.2023 - Transkribus [Transcription] → Faircopy [Annotation]
• 17.10.2023 - OpenRefine [normalization]
• 31.10.2023 - ediarum.BASE [Annotation] → teiPublisher [Publication]
• 14.11.2023 - FairCopy [Annotation] → ediarum.WEB [Publication]

TRAIN THE TRAINERS

Copyright and Open Access in academic teaching

Date: Friday, January 13, 2023; 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Location: Elisabethstraße 59/III, 8010 Graz - Center for Information Modeling SR 81.31

Recording of the event

Registration and contact at: elisabeth.raunig(at)uni-graz.at

As part of the DiTAH project (Digital Transformation of the Austrian Humanities) and within the framework of CLARIAH-AT, one focus is the provision of digital further education, teaching and learning materials. The availability of digital media independent of time and place benefits working students, for example. However, it also offers the opportunity to create courses that are not tied to fixed times and locations. Teaching content, tutorials and (self-)evaluation of what has been learned can thus be used much more effectively.

With the step of publishing these materials on the Internet, however, the target group and the public that can be reached automatically increases. At this point at the latest, images and texts must not only be referenced according to scientific criteria, but the various aspects of copyright must also be taken into account. What needs to be considered when creating (digital) teaching materials will be presented in this workshop.

Topics and speakers:

Introduction to the basics of copyright in the context of digital teaching - Mag.phil. Walter Scholger
Image rights for teachers - Charlotte Reuß
Open Access - Christian Kaier
Open Educational Resources - Michael Kopp

Call for Participation: Computer Vision for Digital Humanists Winter School (February 8 - 10, 2023)

A three-day winter school hosted by the University of Graz:

Computer Vision has become a very relevant skill for many Digital Humanists, but it is hard to distinguish how we can best budget our time and efforts to engage with this new technology. This workshop will provide a conceptual introduction to the processes involved, coupled with hands-on exercises that focus on the ways that we, as humanists, can curate content and manage metadata to make the best use of new tools available.
No advanced mathematics or computer science are presumed, but participants should be comfortable working with the Python command line (e.g., Anaconda) and running Jupyter notebooks.

How to apply:
To be considered for participation in this workshop please submit a one page CV and letter of interest (one page max.) addressing the following:
- Why are you interested in attending this workshop?
- How will the skills learned improve your scholarship?
- What is your academic background and research specialization?
- Do you have access to funding for travel to Graz and accommodation?

This project is funded by CLARIAH-AT with the support of BMBWF . Additional support from the Uni Graz, ZIM-ACDH, and the ERC DiDip Project.

Application materials can be emailed to sean.winslow(at)uni-graz.at
The application deadline is January 6, 2023. Applicants will be notified on January 8, 2023.

DigEdTnT: Workshop - Meet the Tools and Developers

23.02-24.02.2023

Digital editions are a core area of the Digital Humanities; they make historical sources accessible. Computer-aided methods are used to implement, disseminate and research scientifically sound source publications. Digital editions comprise textual, visual and possibly also quantitative data and often require special user interfaces in order to process domain-specific research questions. Although each edition project has its own specific requirements, individual steps can be identified that are generally necessary for edition projects. In the broadest sense, these are the digitization of the source with the management of images and text, transcription, modelling of relevant text phenomena using adequate markup languages, annotation of semantic information and named entities, creation of indices, and publication via the web in accordance with FAIR criteria. In recent years, a number of tools have been established for all these steps and are preferred.

The aim of the project Digital Edition Creation Pipelines: Tools and Transitions (DigEdTnT), funded by Funding Call 2022: Interoperability and Reusability of DH Data and Tools from CLARIAH-AT, is to create best practices and tutorials for selected tools and their transitions to help with the choice of tools and working with tools to create digital editions. Transitions refer to challenges that arise, for example, when results from Transkribus are to be transferred to ediarum for further annotation.

The workshop will include tool presentations and a tool dating session that invites participants to discuss specific use cases with the experts.

The event will be held hybrid. No registration is required for online participation, the stream will be freely accessible. If you wish to participate in person, please send an email (by 20.02.) to christopher.pollin(at)uni-graz.at.

Location: Elisabethstraße 59/III, 8010 Graz - Center for Information Modeling SR 81.31

Program

Day 1 (23.02) Tool presentations

09:00-09:15 Opening

09:15-10:15 FromThePage, Ben Brumfield (Brumfield Labs, English)

10:15-10:30Break

10:30-11:30 Transkribus, Matthias Sorg and Sebastian Colutto
(READ-COOP)

11:30-11:45Break

11:45-12:45 LAKomp, Jörg Ritter (University of Halle-Wittenberg)

12:45-13:45Lunch break

13:45-14:45 IIIF, Glen Robson (IIIF Consortium, online, English)

14:45-15:00Break

15:00-16:00 ediarum, Nadine Arndt (TELOTA,
Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities)

16:00-16:15Break

16:15-17:15 FairCopy, Nicholas Laiacona (Performant Software
Solutions, online, English)

17:30-18:45 Evening Keynote: "Tools for digital editions as
helpers and hurdles: How do we take the tools in
hands?", Ulrike Henny (University of Rostock)

19:00 Dinner together

Day 2 (24.02) Tool dating

09:00-09:15 Introduction

09:15-10:00 Slot 1 - Meet Jörg Ritter andLAKomp

10:00-10:15Break

10:15-11:00 Slot 2 -Meet Nadine Arndt and ediarum

11:00-11:15Break

11:15-12:00 Slot 3 - Meet Matthias Sorg & Sebastian Colutt and Transkribus

12:00-12:45Lunch

12:45-13:30 Slot 4 - Meet Ben Brumfield and FromThePage

13:30-13:45Break

13:45-14:30 Slot 5 - Meet Nick Laiacona and FairCopy

Organization: Christopher Pollin, Sabrina Strutz, Helmut Klug

Registration and contact: christopher.pollin(at)uni-graz.at

Further information: Tools & Experts

Workshop on Information Visualization in the (Digital) Humanities

27th-28th of October 2022, University of Graz
Organizers: Philipp Hofeneder (Department of Translation Studies), Christopher Pollin (Centre for Information Modelling)

Abstract:
Information visualization has become an integral part of the (digital) humanities and has undergone a rapid development during the last years. One of the advantages of this development is that the collection, analysis, and visualization of information take place no longer in separate processes, but are often undertaken by one and the same person or research group. This has drawn new attention to the usefulness and functionality in general and raises the question of the relationship between researchers and the objects of study. On the one hand, visualizations can provide useful insights and new perspectives. On the other hand, their applicability can be limited by the researcher's scientific aims, academic education, and their technical capabilities. A conscious approach allows us to uncover the advantages and disadvantages of these relationships between the object of study and the researcher.

The Centre for Information Modelling in cooperation with the Department of Translation Studies at the University of Graz organizes a workshop to discuss this relation between researchers and the objects they visualize based on real use cases. Starting from an increased awareness of the relation between agent and object, we want to reflect on the researcher's point of view and how it practically influences the way we develop new visuals. Are they based on the information and its characteristic traits or rather on the needs of its further use? How do researchers influence their own visualizations and are they aware of their subjective approach?

To answer these questions, a jury of internationally recognized experts will be formed for the workshop, which will subject the submitted examples to a structural analysis and combine it with a corresponding discussion. The participants of the jury deliberately cover different areas (technical, academic, artistic) and thus enable a well-founded analysis of the effectiveness.

The workshop is aimed at experienced researchers as well as beginners who want to receive expert comments on their individual implementations. We propose to address finished as well as works in progress from scholars in the (digital) humanities.

27th to 28th October 2022
Centre for Informations Modelling, Elisabethstraße 59/III, 8010 Graz/Austria, 3rd floor, room 81.31

The workshop will be held in hybrid format, with opportunities for the audience to attend virtually or in person in Graz.

Program:

Thursday, 27th of October 2022

13:30 - 13:45 Registration

13:45 - 14:15 Short introduction and explanation of the format by the organizers; introductory words by vice dean prof. Sonja RINOFNER-KREIDL and head of department prof. Georg VOGELER

14:15 - 15:15 Some Thoughts on Information Visualization by the jury: Tiziana ALOCCI (London), Keith ANDREWS (Graz), Linda FREYBERG (Potsdam), Florian Windhager (Krems)

15:15 - 16:15 Sanja SARIĆ (Graz), Connecting the Dots in a Topic Model: A Network Representation of Topics and Periodicals

16:15 - 16:45 Coffee break

16:45 - 17:45 Christiane FRITZE, Katharina, PRAGER and Evelyne LUEF (all Vienna), VisPer - a Person-centred Visualisation of the Estates (Nachlässe) of the Vienna City Library

18:00 - dinner

 

Friday, 28th of October 2022

09:30 - 10:30 Ventsislav IKOFF, Alessio CARDILLO, Laura FÓLICA and Diana ROIG-SANZ (all Barcelona), Visualizing Translation Flows in Ibero-American Literary Magazines

10:30 - 11:30 Luc van DOORSLAER (Tartu/Stellenbosch), Charting Translation Studies Networks

11:30 - 11:45 Coffee break

11:45 - 12:45 Rubén Rodriguez CASAN, Elisabet Carbo CATALAN (both Barcelona), Towards a Global History of the International Institute of Intellectual Cooperation: Challenges and Opportunities

12:45 - 13:45 Korbinian GRÜNWALD (Vienna), In the network of the city. Social Groups, Networks of Relations and Interactions in Late Medieval Vienna (1448-1466)

13:45 - 14:00 Concluding remarks

Digital Diplomatics Conference 2022, September 28 to 30

As early as the 1970s, diplomatics, i.e. research on mediaeval documents, noticed the benefits of the computer for the indexing and editing of mediaeval charter collections. In the following decades, numerous relevant research projects were initiated that explored and clarified the potential of a connection between digital humanities and the methods of historical auxiliary sciences. They have found expression in the series of conferences on the topic of "Digital Diplomatics" (in particular Munich 2007, Naples 2011 and Paris 2013), in which the digitization of charters, their publication on the web, and the digital analysis of document corpora in cooperation between archives, diplomatics, historians and computer scientists were discussed.

The ERC Advanced Grant project "From Digital to Distant Diplomatics" takes up this tradition and wants to take stock of the different projects and approaches to the topic of "digital diplomatics" with the conference "Digital Diplomatics 2022".

The international conference in Graz is intended to offer all scholars interested in this complex of topics the opportunity for discussion and exchange, from questions about digital support in the formal and content analysis of documents, to the planning and implementation of digitization projects in archives and libraries, to the future direction of this new research field.

Panel discussion "Digital humanities as a tool or a science?"

An event organized by the Faculty of Humanities and the Center for Information Modelling at the University of Graz

It seems as if the digital humanities have ushered in a new era of research in the humanities. In addition to the relevant disciplines, archives, libraries and museums are also involved in collaborative ventures to network researchers, digital and digitized cultural objects and research data. From its early beginnings - the term Digital Humanities was first coined in 2004 (Schreibman, Siemens, Unsworth) - this discipline can look back on a steep rise to the present day. Research centers and experimental laboratories have developed into university institutes at which professorships with corresponding profiles have been established. New degree courses with independent curricula have been and are being created at these institutes. At the same time, cultural heritage institutions are engaged in the production of digital surrogates of their collections and are building new collections with born-digital content. So are DH a research discipline or the tools of the trade for producing and dealing with digital cultural heritage?

The question of how the digital humanities fit into the canon of humanities subjects is not new - yet it still seems topical! The range of viewpoints on this question is broad:

Of course, the process of digitization must be supported, but one should not expect more than easy-to-use tools and the general facilitation of work processes.

It is important to carry the digital label, but digital tasks are best passed on to appropriate service providers.

Computer-aided methods have long been an integral part of some humanities disciplines: since the advent of computer centers, for example, computer-aided research methods have been used in linguistics, while other disciplines generate such a large amount of data (e.g. archaeology) that it can only be meaningfully processed with computer support.

In any case, technical development has now progressed so far that every single workstation is a small computer center in its own right, meaning that everyone has the technical potential for digital research methods at their disposal.

The humanities have finally arrived in the digital age and digital research methods are now revolutionizing research and the acquisition of knowledge. They define the golden future of research in the humanities.

The debate seems as old as the use of computer-assisted research methods in humanities research in the middle of the 20th century. Does this make it obsolete? Not at all: a discipline is also constituted by its critical self-reflection and reflection on others. The discussions about Hack&Yack (Nowviskie 2016) or the "Big Tent" (Svensson 2011) are good examples of this (see also, for example, Baum, Stäcker 2016; Hohls 2018; Schafer, Rittgerodt 2022). It can therefore do no harm to discuss this question once again, especially against the backdrop of rapidly advancing technological developments. However, instead of comparing different narratives about the DH, the question of the future, of developments in the coming years and decades, is far more interesting. Therefore, we will also discuss where DH could develop in the coming years: into a toolbox of self-evident digital methods based on defined questions of the established humanities disciplines or into a research discipline with independent methods and research objects?

References:

Baum, Constanze and Thomas Stäcker. 2016. limits and possibilities of the digital humanities. journal for digital humanities. Special volume 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.17175/sb01.

Hohls, Rüdiger. 2018. "Digital Humanities and Digital History." In: Clio Online. https://guides.clio-online.de/guides/arbeitsformen-und-techniken/digital-humanities/2018.

Nowviskie, Bethany. 2016. "On the Origin of 'Hack' and 'Yack'." In Debates in the Digital Humanities. dhdebates. gc.cuny.edu/read/untitled/section/a5a2c3f4-65ca-4257-a8bb- 6618d635c49f.

Rittgerodt, Rabea. 2022. Digital Humanities - A Science unto Itself? A Conversation with Valérie Schafer. De Gruyter Conversations. March 10, 2022. blog. degruyter.com/digital- humanities-a-science-unto-itself-a-conversation-with-valerie-schafer.

Schreibman, Susan, Ray Siemens and John Unsworth, eds. 2004. A Companion to Digital Humanities. Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Wiley. onlinelibrary. wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9780470999875

Svensson, Patrik. 2011. "Beyond the Big Tent." In Debates in the Digital Humanities. https://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/read/untitled-88c11800-9446-469b-a3be-3fdb36bfbd1e/section/38531431-5bd6-4eb1-95f5-fa49c025322d.

Petri Paju/Mila Oiva/Mats Fridlund: Digital and Distant Histories. Emergent Approaches within the New Digital History. In: this. (eds.): Digital Histories. Emergent Approaches within the New Digital History. Helsinki 2020, pp. 3-18.

Fotis Jannidis: Digital Humanities: Open Questions - Beautiful Prospects. In: Journal for Media and Cultural Research 10/1 (2019), pp. 63-70.

Thursday, 23.06.2022

Venue: Historical Greenhouse of the University of Graz

13:00-13:10 Eröffnung/Begrüßung

13:10-13:40 Keynote speech: Prof. em. Dr. Charlotte Schubert, University of Leipzig

13:40-14:10 Keynote speech: Prof. Dr. Evelyn Gius, Technical University of Darmstadt

14:10-14:30 Coffee break

14:30-16:00 Panel discussion on the topic "Digital humanities as a tool or science?"

 

Moderation:
Univ.Prof. Dr. Sonja Rinofner-Kreidl

Discussants:
Dr. Luise Borek, University of Graz, Technical University of Darmstadt
Prof. Dr. Evelyn Gius, Technical University of Darmstadt
Dr. Johannes Kepper, University of Paderborn
Prof. em. Dr. Charlotte Schubert, University of Leipzig
Univ.Prof. Dr. Michael Walter, University of Graz

 

(It is planned to hold the event in hybrid form. The event will be recorded with video and audio).

 

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Friday, 24.06.2022

Location: Center for Information Modeling

9:00-12:30: Prof. Dr. Evelyn Gius: Workshop: CATMA

Uni Pop Up Store with ZIM staff

20th May, 16:00-18:00

• Title: Digital mediation and participation of cultural heritage
• Subtitle: Digital Humanities and Public Humanities
• Description: Dr. Sarah Lang, Dr. Chiara Zuanni and Prof. Luise Borek discuss how the digital humanities contribute to involving a broader public in research projects. The digital space offers opportunities for mediation and participation. Borek focuses on examples of citizen science and Zuanni on digital museums. Lang will show how the digital humanities can shed light on mysterious historical topics, such as encrypted texts.
• Speakers: Dr. Sarah Lang, Dr. Chiara Zuanni and Prof. Luise Borek (Zentrum für Informationsmodellierung - Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities) with Nadine Dietz (Technische Universität Darmstadt), Melanie Seltmann (Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt) and Lena Dunkelmann (Universität Koblenz-Landau)
• Further link

 

6th May 2022, 16:00-18:00 h

• Title: From typing to analyzing
• Subtitle: Digital humanities and texts
• Description : Dr. Martina Scholger, Sanja Sarić and Dr. Bernhard Bauer use digital methods to explore the history, characteristics and context of various texts. From early medieval glosses to modern literature, they have been able to uncover networks of people, themes, moods, stylistic characteristics of authors and other connections through "distant reading" of numerous texts. In this event, they will present examples of the application of these methods in literary studies and Celtic studies.
• Speakers: Dr. Martina Scholger, Sanja Sarić and Dr. Bernhard Bauer (Centre for Information Modelling - Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities)

 

April 26, 2022:

• at 14:00, Dr. Helmut Klug and the Science Ink team will present the project
• at 18:00, Prof. Georg Vogeler will be in conversation on the theme of AI and Culture "Artificial Intelligence and Culture. Between creativity and new methods of cognition" with Prof. Manfred Füllsack (and with Dr. Bernhard Bauer as moderator)

Everyone is invited to join and support!

Sentiment Analysis in Literary Studies, 2021

Online Lectures

With Roman Klinger (Institute for Natural Language Processing, University of Stuttgart), Rachele Sprugnoli (University Cattolica del Sacro Cuore), Katrin Dennerlein (Institute for German Philology, University of Würzburg) and Thomas Schmidt (Institute for Information and Media, Language and Culture, University of Regensburg)

Program and Abstracts

In the context of the eventSentiment Analysis in Literary Studiesorganized by the project team of Distant Spectators. Distant Reading for Periodicals of the Enlightenment, funded by CLARIAH-AT, we invite you to the following open keynote lectures (with required registration):

Wednesday, 17.02.2021, 15:30 - 16:30h (CET)

Emotion Modeling in Text and Social Media - The Contribution of Psychological Models - Roman Klinger (Institute for Natural Language Processing, University of Stuttgart)

Emotion analysis from text includes a set of tasks, with emotion classification being the most prominent one. The task is to assign emotion categories to textual instances, for instance that a text expresses fear or joy.

Most of the existing methods make use of state-of-the-art end-to-end machine learning, but do not take advantage of knowledge about the structure of emotions from psychology. In this talk, I present how the emotion component process model (which states that emotions consist of subjective feelings, physiological reactions, action tendencies, expressions, and cognitive appraisals) can be used to inform computational emotion classification decisions. Further, we will see how we can identify who is mentioned to be the experiencer of an emotion and which text segment describes the stimulus. This helps to get a comprehensive and deeper understanding of the emotion communicated in text.

This is joint work with Laura Oberländer, Enrica Troiano, Jan Hofmann, Felix Casel, Evgeny Kim, and Amelie Heindl.

Thursday, 18.02.2021, 15:30 - 16:30h (CET)

Sentiment Analysis for Latin: a Journey from Seneca to Thomas Aquinas

- Rachele Sprugnoli (University Cattolica del Sacro Cuore)

While the main applications of resources and tools for sentiment analysis typically fall within the scope of fields like customer experience and social media monitoring, there is an increasing interest in extending their range to texts written in ancient and historical languages. Such interest mirrors the substantial growth of the area dedicated to building and using linguistic resources for these languages, which are essential for accessing and understanding the Classical tradition.

In this talk, we will present the methodology we followed to create and evaluate a new set of Latin sentiment lexicons, and the process of inclusion of a prior polarity lexicon of Latin lemmas in a knowledge base of interoperable linguistic resources developed within the ERC project "LiLa: Linking Latin". We will discuss the main challenges we face when working with ancient languages (e.g., lack of native speakers, limited amount of data, unusual textual genres for the sentiment analysis task, such as philosophical or documentary texts) and we will describe two use cases underscoring the importance of an interdisciplinary approach combining computational linguistics, semantic web and humanities practices.

Friday, 19.02.2021, 15:30 - 16:30h (CET)

Annotating and quantifying sentiment and emotions in German plays from around 1800

- Katrin Dennerlein (Institute for German Philology, University of Würzburg) and Thomas Schmidt (Institute for Information and Media, Language and Culture, University of Regensburg)

We report on our experiences with Sentiment Analysis in historical German plays and about the ongoing project "Emotions in Drama" which is a project of the priority program SPP 2207 Computational Literary Studies (CLS), funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). We talk about the challenges we encountered in our work with lexicon-based sentiment analysis and the creation of sentiment analysis calculation and visualization tools for the Digital Humanities community. Furthermore, we report on the problems and difficulties of developing emotion annotation schemes and annotating emotions in plays with the goal to satisfy the literary studies' perspective as well as the computer science perspective equally.

Registration

The lectures will be held online. To get the access link and to participate, it is required to register before February 17th under this link:

Lecturers

Roman Klinger is a senior lecturer at the Institute for Natural Language Processing (IMS) at the University of Stuttgart. He studied computer science with a minor in psychology, holds a Ph.D. in computer science from TU Dortmund University (2011), and received the venia legendi in computer science in Stuttgart (2020). Before moving to Stuttgart, he worked at the University of Bielefeld, at the Fraunhofer Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Roman Klinger's vision is to enable computers to understand and generate text regarding both factual and non-factual information. This finds application in interdisciplinary research, including biomedical text mining, digital humanities, modeling psychological concepts (like emotions) in language, and social media mining. These topics often constitute novel challenges to existing machine learning methods. Therefore, he and his group also contribute to the fields of probabilistic and deep machine learning.

Rachele Sprugnoli is a postdoctoral researcher at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan, working in the ERC project "LiLa: Linking Latin" and member of the executive committee of AIUCD, the Italian association of Digital Humanities.

She obtained her bachelor's and master's degrees in Humanities Computing at the University of Pisa (Italy) and her PhD in Information Technology at the University of Trento (Italy) with a thesis on the automatic detection and classification of events in historical texts.

In 2005 she moved to Trento becoming involved in Human Language Technologies projects and researches at CELCT (the former "Center for the Evaluation of Language and Communication Technologies") and then, from 2013 to 2018, she worked in the group dedicated to Digital Humanities at Fondazione Bruno Kessler.

Her research is mainly focused on text annotation, evaluation of NLP tools and on how computational methods and text analysis technologies can be applied to the treatment of cultural content.

Katrin Dennerlein is a lecturer at the University of Würzburg. She is currently working as project leader of the computational literary studies project "Emotions in Drama" in which she explores emotions with historical hermeneutic as well as computational methods. She received her PhD on the topic of narratology of space and wrote her second book (Habilitation) on the German comedy of the 17th and 18th century. Among her research interests are network analysis, mixed methods in digital humanities, AI for historical fictional texts, German drama from 1500 to 1850 and mobility in German contemporary fiction.

Thomas Schmidt is a PhD student, research assistant and lecturer at the chair for media informatics, University of Regensburg. He received his master's degree in media informatics in 2017. He works in the computational literary studies project "Emotions in Drama" since 2020 investigating sentiment and emotions in historical German plays via computational methods. Since 2019, he is also responsible for the coordination of the master's degree program Digital Humanities at the University of Regensburg. Among his research interests are Digital Humanities, text mining, human-computer interaction (HCI) and information behavior. In his PhD, he explores the application of computer vision in quantitative film analysis.

Organizing Committee

Bernhard Geiger (Know-Center Graz)
Christina Glatz (University of Graz)
Elisabeth Hobisch (University of Graz)
Philipp Koncar (Graz University of Technology)
Sanja Sarić (University of Graz)
Martina Scholger (University of Graz)
Yvonne Völkl (University of Graz)

Contact

dispecs(at)uni-graz.at

 

Workshop

Online, February 17-19, 2021

The workshop and lectures on Sentiment Analysis in Literary Studies are organized in the context of the "Distant Spectators. Distant Reading for Periodicals of the Enlightenment" project which aims to develop and disseminate a tool chain for sentiment analysis that is applicable to multilingual text corpora of the 18th century. The event is funded by CLARIAH-AT and co-organized by the Centre for Information Modelling - Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and the Institute for Romance Studies at the University of Graz, as well as the Institute for Interactive Systems and Data Science at the Graz University of Technology and the Know-Center GmbH Graz.

The workshop introduces the concepts of Sentiment Analysis and will give an overview of related methods and tools with a special focus on their application to historical literary text corpora.

 

Organizing committee Bernhard Geiger (Know-Center Graz) Christina Glatz (University of Graz) Elisabeth Hobisch (University of Graz) Philipp Koncar (Graz University of Technology) Sanja Sarić (University of Graz) Martina Scholger (University of Graz) Yvonne Völkl (University of Graz)

Contact dispecs@uni-graz.at

 

Program

 

Wednesday, 17.02.
09:00 - 10:30	Workshop Opening: Georg Vogeler Austrian Center for Digital Humanities University of Graz Introduction Session: Sentiment Analysis 101
10:30 -10:45	Coffee Break
10:45 -12:00	Hands-on Session: Analyzing Reddit Comments with VADER
12:00 -13:30	Lunch Break
13:30 - 15:00	Hands-on Session: Visualization and Hypothesis Tests
15:00 -15:30	Coffee Break
15:30 -16:30	Keynote Session: Roman Klinger Institute for Natural Language Processing University of Stuttgart
Thursday, 18.02.
09:00 - 10:30	Theory Session: Sentiment Analysis Challenges in Historical Texts
10:30 -10:45	Coffee Break
10:45 -12:00	Hands-on Session: Tool Chain (Part I)
12:00 -13:30	Lunch Break
13:30 - 15:00	Hands-on Session: Tool Chain (Part II)
15:00 -15:30	Coffee Break
15:30 -16:30	Keynote Session: Rachele Sprugnoli University Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Friday, 19.02.
09:00 - 10:30	Buffer Session: Discussion and Problem Solving
10:30 -10:45	Coffee Break
10:45 -12:00	Project Presentations (Part I)
12:00 -13:30	Lunch Break
13:30 - 15:00	Project Presentations (Part II)
15:00 -15:30	Coffee Break
15:30 -16:30	Keynote Session: Katrin Dennerlein Institute for German Philology University of Würzburg and Thomas Schmidt Institute for Information and Media, Language and Culture University of Regensburg

 

Program as PDF

Spring School LiSeH 2021

Linked Data & the Semantic Web for Humanities Research

Graz, Austria, April 6. to 9. 2021
The spring school is co-organized by the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage at the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the Centre for Information Modelling - Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities at the University of Graz and is funded by CLARIAH-AT and supported by the H2020 project ELEXIS.

The school will give an introduction to the concepts related to the Semantic Web and Linked Data and will give an overview of semantic web technologies and tools with a special focus on application scenarios in the Humanities

• Identifying standards and technologies
• RDF and triples
• Semantic querying: SPARQL and triple stores
• Linked data curation
• Knowledge Representation and Ontologies
• Linked Data in Linguistics
• Modeling cultural heritage data

Participation
Participation is free of charge and open to 25 students and scholars of all academic stages. No previous specific skills are required (although basic digital knowledge would be useful).
To apply, we ask you to use the application form and provide a brief motivational note why you would like to attend the spring school (250 words)

Questions
Please contact

christopher.pollin(at)uni-graz.at
gerlinde.schneider(at)uni-graz.at

Organizing committee
Christopher Pollin (University of Graz)
Gerlinde Schneider (Austrian Academy of Sciences)
Tanja Wissik (Austrian Academy of Sciences)