Recap on MITE and talk by Evelyn Gius
Speaker: Evelyn Gius, University of Darmstadt, Institute of Linguistics and Literary Studies, Germany
Title of the talk: From Theory to Text – How to integrate Computation and Literary Studies
Abstract: In this talk, I will address the challenges posed by text analysis in computational literary studies, focusing on the gap between concepts and computation. I will propose to follow an input-process-output workflow by which one can move from a theoretical foundation of a research interest to computational text analysis. I will use examples from my own research in Computational Narratology to showcase how this can be put into practice.
Bio: Evelyn Gius is Professor of Digital Philology and Modern German Literature at Technical University Darmstadt and head of the fortext lab. Her research focuses on narrative theory, manual annotation, operationalization, segmentation, and conflict. She also leads the development of the annotation platform CATMA and serves as chair of the Digital Humanities Association in the German-speaking areas (“Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum”, DHd), as editor of the journal forTEXT Hefte and as co-editor of the Journal of Computational Literary Studies (JCLS) as well as of the book series “Digital Literary Studies”.
Suggested readings:
Gius, Evelyn. “Computational Text Analysis as a Five-Dimensional Problem: A Model for the Description of Complexity.” Edited by Thomas Weitin. LitLab Pamphlet, no. 8 (August 2020): 1–19.
Pichler, Axel, and Nils Reiter. “From Concepts to Texts and Back: Operationalization as a Core Activity of Digital Humanities.” Journal of Cultural Analytics 7, no. 4 (December 2022)