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