CHR 2023
Computational Humanities Research 2023

Table of Contents

• Preface
  Summary: There were 72 papers submitted for peer-review to this workshop. Out of these, 49 papers were accepted for this volume, 27 as long papers and 22 as short papers.

Papers Presented

• The evolution of romantic love in Chinese fiction in the very long run (618 - 2022): A quantitative approach 1-13
  Ying Zhong , Valentin Thouzeau , Nicolas Baumard
• Persistence of gender asymmetries in book reviews within and across genres 14-28
  Ida Marie S. Lassen , Pascale Feldkamp Moreira , Yuri Bizzoni , Mads Rosendahl Thomsen , Kristoffer Nielbo
• Toward a Computational Historiography of Alchemy: Challenges and Obstacles of Object Detection for Historical Illustrations of Mining, Metallurgy and Distillation in 16th-17th Century Print 29-48
  Sarah Lang , Bernhard Liebl , Manuel Burghardt
• Evaluation and Alignment of Movie Events Extracted via Machine Learning from a Narratological Perspective 49-62
  Feng Zhou , Federico Pianzola
• (De)constructing Binarism in Journalism: Automatic Antonym Detection in Dutch Newspaper Articles 63-77
  Alie Lassche , Ruben Ros , Joris Veerbeek
• Profiling Anonymous Authors in the Corsican Autonomist Press of the Interwar Period 78-99
  Vincent Sarbach-Pulicani
• Towards a Phenomenographic Framework for Exploratory Visual Analysis of Bibliographic Data 100-110
  Martin Ruskov , Sara Sullam
• A Topological Data Analysis of Navigation Paths within Digital Libraries 111-134
  Bayrem Kaabachi , Simon Dumas Primbault
• The Middle Dutch Manuscripts Surviving from the Carthusian Monastery of Herne (14th century): Constructing an Open Dataset of Digital Transcriptions 135-152
  Wouter Haverals , Mike Kestemont
• Using Online Catalogs to Estimate Economic Development in Classical Antiquity 153-166
  Charles de Dampierre , Valentin Thouzeau , Nicolas Baumard
• From Clusters to Graphs – Toward a Scalable Viewing of News Videos 167-177
  Nicolas Ruth , Manuel Burghardt , Bernhard Liebl
• How Exactly does Literary Content Depend on Genre? A Case Study of Animals in Children’s Literature 178-190
  Kirill Maslinsky
• Not just Plot(ting): A Comparison of Two Approaches for Understanding Narrative Text Dynamics 191-205
  Pascale Feldkamp Moreira , Yuri Bizzoni , Emily Öhman , Kristoffer L. Nielbo
• Automatic Collation for Diversifying Corpora: Commonly Copied Texts as Distant Supervision for Handwritten Text Recognition 206-221
  David A. Smith , Jacob Murel , Jonathan Parkes Allen , Matthew Thomas Miller
• Twenty-One* Pseudo-Chrysostoms and more: authorship verification in the patristic world 222-246
  Thibault Clérice , Anthony Glaise
• Gender Bias in French Literature 247-262
  Laurine Viane , Yoann Dupont , Jean Barré
• Structural Characteristics in Historical Networks Reveal Changes in Political Culture: An Example From Northern Song China (960–1127 C.E.) 263-273
  Wenyi Shang , Song Chen , Yuqi Chen , Jana Diesner
• T5 meets Tybalt: Author Attribution in Early Modern English Drama Using Large Language Models 274-302
  Rebecca M. M. Hicke , David Mimno
• Death of the Dictionary? – The Rise of Zero-Shot Sentiment Classification 303-319
  Janos Borst , Jannis Klaehn , Manuel Burghardt
• Sunken Ships Shan’t Sail: Ontology Design for Reconstructing Events in the Dutch East India Company Archives 320-332
  Stella Verkijk , Piek Vossen
• Comparing ChatGPT to Human Raters and Sentiment Analysis Tools for German Children's Literature 333-343
  Simone Rebora , Marina Lehmann , Anne Heumann , Wei Ding , Gerhard Lauer
• Querying the Past: Automatic Source Attribution with Language Models 344-355
  Ryan Muther , Mathew Barber , David Smith
• Understanding individual and collective diversity of cultural consumption through large-scale music listening events 356-367
  Harin Lee , Romain Hennequin , Manuel Moussallam
• The Past is a Foreign Place: Improving Toponym Linking for Historical Newspapers 368-390
  Mariona Coll Ardanuy , Federico Nanni , Kaspar Beelen , Luke Hare
• Style Transfer of Modern Hebrew Literature Using Text Simplification and Generative Language Modeling 391-412
  Pavel Kaganovich , Ophir Münz-Manor , Elishai Ezra-Tsur
• Modeling temporal uncertainty in historical datasets 413-425
  Vojtěch Kaše , Adéla Sobotková , Petra Heřmánková
• Operationalizing and Measuring Conflict in German Novels 426-440
  Julian Häußler , Evelyn Gius
• German Question Tags: A Computational Analysis 441-460
  Yulia Clausen
• Introducing Traveling Word Pairs in Historical Semantic Change: A Case Study of Privacy Words in 18th and 19th Century English 461-474
  Thora Hagen , Erik Ketzan
• The Chatbot and the Canon: Poetry Memorization in LLMs 475-489
  Lyra D'Souza , David Mimno
• Blind Dates: Examining the Expression of Temporality in Historical Photographs 490-499
  Alexandra Barancova , Melvin Wevers , Nanne van Noord
• Modeling Narrative Revelation 500-511
  Andrew Piper , Hao Xu , Eric D. Kolaczyk
• Greetings from! Extracting address information from 100,000 historical picture postcards 512-529
  Thomas Smits , Wouter Haverals , Loren Verreyen , Mona Allaert , Mike Kestemont
• Testing the Limits of Neural Sentence Alignment Models on Classical Greek and Latin Texts and Translations 530-553
  Caroline Craig , Kartik Goyal , Gregory Crane , Farnoosh Shamsian , David A. Smith
• Enhancing HTR of Historical Texts through Scholarly Editions: A Case Study from an Ancient Collation of the Hebrew Bible 554-576
  Luigi Bambaci , Daniel Stökl Ben Ezra
• Algorithms for the manipulation and transformation of text variant graphs 577-591
  Tara L. Andrews
• On Character Perception and Plot Structure of German Romance Novel 592-615
  Leonard Konle , Agnes Hilger , Fotis Jannidis
• If the Sources Could Talk: Evaluating Large Language Models for Research Assistance in History 616-638
  Giselle Gonzalez Garcia , Christian Weilbach
• 🇵🇱🤝🇪🇺: Emoji, language games and political polarisation 639-660
  Sara Luxmoore , Pedro Ramaciotti Morales , Jonathan Cardoso-Silva
• Detecting Psychological Disorders with Stylometry: the Case of ADHD in Adolescent Autobiographical Narratives 661-675
  Juan Barrios Rudloff , Simon Gabay , Florian Cafiero , Martin Debbané
• Is Cinema Becoming Less and Less Innovative With Time? Using neural network text embedding model to measure cultural innovation 676-686
  Edgar Dubourg , Andrei Mogoutov , Nicolas Baumard
• Studying Tonal Evolution of Western Choral Music: A Corpus-Based Strategy 687-702
  Christof Weiß , Meinard Müller
• “The library is open!”: Open data and an open API for the HathiTrust Digital Library 703-714
  John A. Walsh , Glen Layne-Worthey , Jacob Jett , Boris Capitanu , Peter Organisciak , Ryan Dubnicek , J. Stephen Downie
• Oscillation between Contemplation and Revelation - Recurrence and Change in the Life History of Teresa of Ávila 715-733
  Kristoffer Nielbo , Jan Kostkan , Katrine F. Baunvig , Ekaterina Borisova , Armin W. Geertz
• Make Love or War? Monitoring the Thematic Evolution of Medieval French Narratives 734-756
  Jean-Baptiste Camps , Nicolas Baumard , Pierre-Carl Langlais , Olivier Morin , Thibault Clérice , Jade Norindr
• Putting Dutchcoref to the Test: Character Detection and Gender Dynamics in Contemporary Dutch Novels 757-771
  Joris van Zundert , Andreas van Cranenburgh , Roel Smeets
• Formulas and decision-making: the case of the States General of the Dutch Republic 772-798
  Marijn Koolen , Rik Hoekstra , Ronald Sluijter , Joris Oddens
• Unraveling the Synoptic puzzle: stylometric insights into Luke's potential use of Matthew 799-813
  Sophie Robert-Hayek , Jacques Istas , Frédérique Rey
• Beyond canonicity. Modeling Literary Change in French Novelist Production: Canon vs. Archive 814-830
  Jean Barré , Thierry Poibeau