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CHR 2020
Computational Humanities Research 2020

Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Humanities Research (CHR 2020)

Amsterdam, the Netherlands, November 18-20, 2020 .

Edited by

Folgert Karsdorp *
Barbara McGillivray , *
Adina Nerghes
Melvin Wevers *

* Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences , Meertens Instituut, 1012 DK Amsterdam, the Netherlands
** University of Cambridge , CB2 1TN Cambridge, England *** The Alan Turing Institute , NW1 2DB London, England
**** Wageningen University & Research , Social Sciences Group, 6708 PB Wageningen, the Netherlands
***** University of Amsterdam , Faculty of Humanities, 1012 WX Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Table of Contents

Preface

Presented Papers

Cultural Accumulation and Improvement in Online Fan Fiction 2-11
Federico Pianzola , Alberto Acerbi , Simone Rebora
Weak Genres: Modeling Association Between Poetic Meter and Meaning in Russian Poetry 12-31
Artjoms Šeļa , Boris Orekhov , Roman Leibov
Weak Negative Correlation between the Present Day Popularity and the Mean Emotional Valence of Late Victorian Novels 32-43
Stefan Veleski
Estimating the Loss of Medieval Literature with an Unseen Species Model from Ecodiversity 44-55
Mike Kestemont , Folgert Karsdorp
The Order of Things. A Study on Topic Modelling of Literary Texts 57-76
Inna Uglanova , Evelyn Gius
A Statistical Foray into Contextual Aspects of Intertextuality 77-96
Enrique Manjavacas , Folgert Karsdorp , Mike Kestemont
The Rise and Fall of Genre Differentiation in English-Language Fiction 97-114
Aniruddha Sharma , Yuerong Hu , Peizhen Wu , Wenyi Shang , Shubhangi Singhal , Ted Underwood
A Computational Expedition into the Undiscovered Country - Evaluating Neural Networks for the Identification of Hamlet Text Reuse 115-127
Maximilian Bryan , Manuel Burghardt , Johannes Molz
Comparative Religion, Topic Models, and Conceptualization: Towards the Characterization of Structural Relationships between Online Religious Discourses 128-148
Zachary K. Stine , James E. Deitrick , Nitin Agarwal
Online Book Reviews and the Computational Modelling of Reading Impact 149-169
Marijn Koolen , Peter Boot , Joris J. van Zundert
Nothing New Under the Sun? Computational Humanities and the Methodology of History 171-181
Michael Piotrowski , Mateusz Fafinski
Computing Narrative 182-190
Ben Miller , Julie S. Park
Toward a Thermodynamics of Meaning 191-201
Jonathan Scott Enderle
Generative Digital Humanities 202-212
Fabian Offert , Peter Bell
Pitch-Class Distributions in the Music of Anton Webern 214-224
Joshua Ballance
Toward a Musical Sentiment (MuSe) Dataset for Affective Distant Hearing 225-235
Christopher Akiki , Manuel Burghardt
Exploiting Cross-Dialectal Gold Syntax for Low-Resource Historical Languages: Towards a Generic Parser for Pre-Modern Slavic 237-247
Nilo Pedrazzini
Domain and Task Adaptive Pretraining for Language Models 248-256
Leonard Konle , Fotis Jannidis
What about Grammar? Using BERT Embeddings to Explore Functional-Semantic Shifts of Semi-Lexical and Grammatical Constructions 257-268
Lauren Fonteyn
A Linguistic Approach to Misinformation in Chinese 269-278
Charles Lam , Brian Leung , Cora Yip , Jason Yung
Quantifying Bias and Uncertainty in Historical Data Collections with Probabilistic Programming 280-289
Leo Lahti , Eetu Mäkelä , Mikko Tolonen
Trend Reservoir Detection: Minimal Persistence and Resonant Behavior of Trends in Social Media 290-297
Kristoffer L. Nielbo , Peter B. Vahlstrup , Anja Bechmann , Jianbo Gao
Measuring the Acceleration of the Social Construction of Time using the BOE (Boletin Oficial del Estado) 298-308
Elena Fernández Fernández , Mirco Schoenfeld , Juergen Pfeffer
Transfer Learning for Historical Corpora: An Assessment on Post-OCR Correction and Named Entity Recognition 310-339
Konstantin Todorov , Giovanni Colavizza
Between Flexibility and Universality: Combining TAGML and XML to Enhance the Modeling of Cultural Heritage Text 340-350
Elli Bleeker , Bram Buitendijk , Ronald Haentjens Dekker
From Historical Newspapers to Machine-Readable Data: The Origami OCR Pipeline 351-373
Bernhard Liebl , Manuel Burghardt
Quantifying Iconicity in 940K Online Circulations of 26 Iconic Photographs 375-384
Thomas Smits , Ruben Ros
Networking Archives: Quantitative History and the Contingent Archive 385-396
Yann Ryan , Sebastian Ahnert , Ruth Ahnert
Automatic Creation of a Large-Scale Tempo-Spatial and Semantic Medieval European Information System 397-419
Juri Opitz

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