Janis Pagel

Universität Stuttgart · Institute for Natural Language Processing

This chapter investigates the relationship between interpretative literary character types, such as the schemer, and descriptive character properties, such as gender, age, and social status. This relationship is crucial to studying dramatic characters quantitatively across a corpus of plays, as both properties and types can be used to guide a ratio...

The Center for Reflected Text Analytics (CRETA) develops interdisciplinary mixed methods for text analytics in the research fields of the digital humanities. This volume is a collection of text analyses from specialty fields including literary studies, linguistics, the social sciences, and philosophy. It thus offers an overview of the methodology o...

This chapter presents various activities related to internal and external communication, including activities related to the dissemination of ideas developed in CRETA. Specifically, we present the ‘hackatorial’ (workshop “Learning machine learning”), a ‘workshop on operationalization’ as a core task for the digital humanities, and the ‘CRETA coachi...

In computational linguistics (CL), annotation is used with the goal of compiling data as the basis for machine learning approaches and automation. At the same time, in the Humanities scholars use annotation in the form of notetaking while reading texts. We claim that with the development of Digital Humanities (DH), annotation has become a method th...

Dramatic texts are a highly structured literary text type. Their quantitative analysis so far has relied on analysing structural properties (e.g., in the form of networks). Resolving coreferences is crucial for an analysis of the content of the character speech, but developing automatic coreference resolution (CR) systems depends on the existence o...

Der Workshop adressiert eine der großen Herausforderungen für Arbeiten in den Digital Humanities – die Operationalisierung geisteswissenschaftlicher Konzepte und Fragestellungen für computergestützte Methoden. Anhand dreier Anwendungsfälle zeigen wir auf, welche Herausforderungen sich aus dem Einsatz computergestützter Methoden für geisteswissensch...

We present work in progress on the temporal progression of compositionality in noun-noun compounds. Previous work has proposed computational methods for determining the com-positionality of compounds. These methods try to automatically determine how transparent the meaning of the compound as a whole is with respect to the meaning of its parts. We h...

We present work in progress on the temporal progression of compositionality in noun-noun compounds. Previous work has proposed computational methods for determining the compositionality of compounds. These methods try to automatically determine how transparent the meaning of the compound as a whole is with respect to the meaning of its parts. We hy...

We present work in progress on the temporal progression of compositionality in noun-noun compounds. Previous work has proposed computational methods for determining the compositionality of compounds. These methods try to automatically determine how transparent the meaning of the compound as a whole is with respect to the meaning of its parts. We hy...

In this paper, we aim at identifying protagonists in plays automatically. To this end, we train a classifier using various features and investigate the importance of each feature. A challenging aspect here is that the number of spoken words for a character is a very strong baseline. We can show, however, that a) the stage presence of characters and...

In computational linguistics (CL), annotation is used with the goal of compiling data as the basis for machine learning approaches and automation. At the same time, in the Humanities scholars use annotation in the form of note-taking while reading texts. We claim that with the development of Digital Humanities (DH), annotation has become a method t...

Bridging resolution is the task of recognising bridging anaphors and linking them to their antecedents. While there is some work on bridging resolution for English, there is only little work for German. We present two datasets which contain bridging annotations, namely DIRNDL and GRAIN, and compare the performance of a rule-based system with a simp...