IGEL conference 2023 In the movie Three Thousand Years of Longing, Alithea says to the Djinn, “I’m not sure how it works. I am a literary scholar. We don’t know much.” Just like all scientists, I would add, who are constantly in the search for better understanding phenomena. After all, knowledge is built progressively. Fortunately,… Continue reading What do we know about literature?
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DH2023
This year the team of Impact and Fiction project was represented on one of the most important events in the world of Digital Humanities – ADHO Digital Humanities Conference which took place on-site in a beautiful city of Graz, Austria. It was the first time in the last 4 years that the conference was held… Continue reading DH2023
Impact of Style
When reading a book we mention a lot: the plot, the characters, different narrative perspectives, and also style. Everyone can more or less “feel” style, but that is why it is so difficult to define. Speaking about style from a linguistic and literary perspective we should think about choice of words, length and complexity of… Continue reading Impact of Style
A Tiny Cartography of Mapping Literature
My guess is that almost any reader will recognize the map from figure 1, just above. It is a map of Middle Earth. This image was reproduced from the 1993 paperback edition of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. The map and its various siblings that have adorned some of the first pages of… Continue reading A Tiny Cartography of Mapping Literature
Switching Perspectives
By Marijn Koolen When talking about books, readers often describe different experiences from different perspectives. What happens with characters in stories might be told from a third person perspective. Characters are mentioned by name first, then later referred to by ‘he’ or ‘she’. What happens to the reader during reading tends to be told from… Continue reading Switching Perspectives
Analyzing INCePTION annotations using DKPro cassis
This post presents a piece of Python code to access annotations from INCePTION using DKPro cassis.
The Ethics of Using AI to Study Literature and Reviews
By Joris J. van Zundert and Julia Neugarten Two weeks ago, NBD Biblion, an independent non-profit organization that provides information services for Dutch libraries, announced that it would fire most of its reviewers. NBD Biblion had been using a team of about 700 reviewers who provided short descriptions of newly published books. Reviewers made 14… Continue reading The Ethics of Using AI to Study Literature and Reviews
An Ambitious Project
By Peter Boot For the study of literature, we live in exciting times. This has two reasons: we can computationally analyse the full text of books and we now have access to large amounts of data about how books affect readers. With respect to the computational analysis of book texts, this allows us to reformulate… Continue reading An Ambitious Project