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SPP 2207:  Computational Literary Studies

Subject Area Humanities
Computer Science, Systems and Electrical Engineering
Social and Behavioural Sciences
Term since 2019
Project identifier Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 402743989
 
Computational Literary Studies (CLS) are growing, interdisciplinary research field between computational linguistics, computer science and literary studies in the process of establishing itself as a genuine research community. In the past two years, the priority programme Computational Literary Studies has funded and coordinated 10 individual research projects in Germany and Switzerland. The central coordination of the programme has coordinated activity among the individual projects, organised the internal and external communication of the programme and provided logistic support. As a result, the programme has established itself as a central node in the network of CLS researchers, its research is highly visible on the international level. Within the programme, research projects were organised in working groups on "Annotations", "Wordembeddings", "Sentiment Analysis", "Drama" and "Text Similarity" that cooperate on the methodological level by exchanging tools and data and establishing common practices. Working groups and programme meetings were open to the general, interested public to encourage interaction with the wider CLS community. Organising these events, identifying potential areas of cooperation for the initiation of working groups and integrating external researchers as well as representative of other organisations into the activities was a central task of the coordination project. Internally, a large survey has been conducted to evaluate the projects' strategies and requirements in terms of tool use, data management and long-term archiving, which allowed the coordination project to consult and support the research projects regarding their research data management. In response to the specific requirements, especially in the context of cooperating in the working groups, a programme-wide gitlab instance was provided. In the second funding period, the central coordination will continue providing the services and coordinating activities that were established during the first funding period, maintaining and extending contact to external researchers and organisations and organising programme events. As an additional task, the programme will develop an online handbook of computational literary studies. This handbook will contain contributions from leading experts on the important topics of the field and provide a state-of-the-art reference work for both students and researchers new to CLS.
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International Connection Switzerland

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