CHR 2024
Computational Humanities Research 2024

Table of Contents

• Preface
  Summary: There were 145 papers submitted for peer-review to this workshop. Out of these, 78 papers were accepted for this volume, 36 as long papers and 42 as short papers.

Papers Presented

• Discoverability in a Digital Library: A Study of “Rabbit Holes” within Gallica’s corpus 1-20
  Anne-Laure Tettoni, Simon Dumas Primbault
• Latent structures in french fiction 21-36
  Jean Barré
• Automated Image Color Mapping for a Historic Photographic Collection 37-47
  Taylor Arnold, Lauren Tilton
• Steps Towards Mining Manuscript Images for Untranscribed Texts: A Case Study From the Syriac Collection at the Vatican Library 48-64
  Luigi Bambaci, George Kiraz, Christine Roughan, Matthieu Freyder, Daniel Stökl Ben Ezra
• Textual Transmission without Borders: Multiple Multilingual Alignment and Stemmatology of the ``Lancelot en prose'' (Medieval French, Castilian, Italian) 65-92
  Matthias Gille Levenson, Lucence Ing, Jean-Baptiste Camps
• Admiration and Frustration: A Multidimensional Analysis of Fanfiction 93-112
  Mia Jacobsen, Ross Deans Kristensen-McLachlan
• Bringing Rome to Life: Evaluating Historical Image Generation 113-126
  Phillip B. Ströbel, Zejie Guo, Ülkü Karagöz, Eva Maria Willi, Felix K. Maier
• Transformation of Composition and Gaze Interaction in Noli Me Tangere Depictions from 1300–1600 127-136
  Pepe Ballesteros Zapata, Nina Arnold, Vappu Lukander, Ludovica Schaerf, Dario Negueruela del Castillo
• Modeling the Evolution of Harmony in Popular Music from Different Cultural Contexts 137-152
  Fabian C. Moss, Eita Nakamura
• Literary Canonicity and Algorithmic Fairness: The Effect of Author Gender on Classification Models 153-171
  Ida Marie S. Lassen, Pascale Feldkamp Moreira, Yuri Bizzoni, Kristoffer Nielbo
• Global Coherence, Local Uncertainty - Towards a Theoretical Framework for Assessing Literary Quality 172-185
  Yuri Bizzoni, Pascale Feldkamp, Kristoffer Nielbo
• Once More, With Feeling: Measuring Emotion of Acting Performances in Contemporary American Film 186-199
  Naitian Zhou, David Bamman
• Enhancing Arabic Maghribi Handwritten Text Recognition with RASAM 2: A Comprehensive Dataset and Benchmarking 200-216
  Chahan Vidal-Gorène, Clément Salah, Noëmie Lucas, Aliénor Decours-Perez, Antoine Perrier
• Catching Feelings: Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis for Fanfiction Comments about Greek Myth 217-231
  Julia Neugarten, Tess Dejaeghere, Pranaydeep Singh, Amanda Robin Hemmons, Julie M. Birkholz
• Locating the Leading Edge of Cultural Change 232-245
  Sarah Griebel, Becca Cohen, Lucian Li, Jiayu Liu, Jaihyun Park, Jana Perkins, Ted Underwood
• The birth of French orthography. A computational analysis of French spelling systems in diachrony 246-264
  Simon Gabay, Thibault Clérice
• Beyond the Register: Demographic Modeling of Arrest Patterns in 1879-1880 Brussels 265-281
  Folgert Karsdorp, Mike Kestemont, Margo de Koster
• On the Unity of Literary Change. The Development of Emotions in German Poetry, Prose, and Drama between 1850 and 1920 as a Test Case 282-300
  Leonard Konle, Merten Kröncke, Fotis Jannidis, Simone Winko
• Getting to grippe with influenza: an investigation of why the disease is called that 301-312
  Maria Bekker-Nielsen Dunbar, Manex Agirrezabal, Tønnes Bekker-Nielsen
• Treebanks for the ordinary working grammarian 313-321
  Joel Priestley, Anders Nøklestad, Kristin Hagen, Anu Laanemets, Dag Trygve Truslew Haug
• Across the Pages: A Comparative Study of Reader Response to Web Novels in Chinese and English on Qidian and WebNovel 322-333
  Ze Yu, Federico Pianzola
• Addressing Uncertainty according to the Annotator's Expertise in Archaeological Data Collections: an Approach from Fuzzy Logic 334-352
  Patricia Martin-Rodilla, Leticia Tobalina-Pulido
• Combining Automatic Annotation with Human Validation for the Semantic Enrichment of Cultural Heritage Metadata 353-368
  Eirini Kaldeli, Alexandros Chortaras, Vassilis Lyberatos, Jason Liartis, Spyridon Kantarelis, Giorgos Stamou
• Fine-Tuning Pre-Trained Language Models for Authorship Attribution of the Pseudo-Dionysian Ars Rhetorica 369-385
  Gleb Schmidt, Veronica Vybornaya, Ivan P. Yamshchikov
• Multilingual Stylometry: The influence of language on the performance of authorship attribution using corpora from the European Literary Text Collection (ELTeC) 386-408
  Christof Schöch, Julia Dudar, Evgeniia Fileva, Artjoms Šeļa
• Epistemic Capture through Specialization in Post-World War II Parliamentary Debate 409-426
  Ruben Ros, Melvin Wevers
• Does Context Matter ? Enhancing Handwritten Text Recognition with Metadata in Historical Manuscripts 427-442
  Benjamin Kiessling, Thibault Clérice
• Domain Adaptation with Linked Encyclopedic Data: A Case Study for Historical German 443-461
  Thora Hagen
• The GOLEM-Knowledge Graph and Search Interface: Perspectives into Narrative and Fiction 462-471
  Franziska Pannach, Luotong Cheng, Federico Pianzola
• Recognising non-named spatial entities in literary texts: a novel spatial entities classifier 472-481
  Daniel Kababgi, Giulia Grisot, Federico Pennino, Berenike Herrmann
• Bootstrap Distance Imposters: High precision authorship verification with improved interpretability 482-493
  Ben Nagy
• On Classification with Large Language Models in Cultural Analytics 494-527
  David Bamman, Kent K. Chang, Li Lucy and Naitian Zhou
• Integrating Visual and Textual Inputs for Searching Large-Scale Map Collections with CLIP 528-547
  Jamie Mahowald, Benjamin Charles Germain Lee
• Deciphering Still Life Artworks with Linked Open Data 548-558
  Bruno Sartini
• Explainable Search and Discovery of Visual Cultural Heritage Collections with Multimodal Large Language Models 559-574
  Taylor Arnold, Lauren Tilton
• A Methodology for Studying Linguistic and Cultural Change in China, 1900-1950 575-588
  Spencer Dean Stewart
• Quantitative Framework for Word-Color Association and Application to 20th Century Anglo-American Poetry 589-609
  Sungpil Wang, Juyong Park
• Promises from an Inferential Approach in Classical Latin Authorship Attribution 610-619
  Giulio Tani Raffaelli
• Clustering Tasks and Decision Trees with Augustan Love Poets: Cohesion and Separation in Feature Importance Extraction 620-648
  Carlos Javier Nusch, Gimena Del Río Riande, Leticia Cagnina, Marcelo Luis Errecalde, Leandro Antonelli
• FAIR Turn in Epigraphy: Low Barrier Pathways to Quantitative and Reproducible Research in Latin Epigraphy 649-661
  Petra Heřmánková, Brian Ballsun-Stanton, Ray Laurence
• Extracting Social Connections from Finnish Karelian Refugee Interviews Using LLMs 662-680
  Joonatan Laato, Jenna Kanerva, John Loehr, Virpi Lummaa, Filip Ginter
• Sentiment Below the Surface: Omissive and Evocative Strategies in Literature and Beyond 681-706
  Pascale Feldkamp, Ea Overgaard Lindhardt, Kristoffer L. Nielbo, Yuri Bizzoni
• Computational Paleography of Medieval Hebrew Scripts 707-717
  Berat Kurar-Barakat, Daria Vasyutinsky-Shapira, Sharva Gogawale, Mohammad Suliman Nachum Dershowitz
• Patterns of Quality: Comparing Reader Reception Across Fanfiction and Commercially Published Literature 718-739
  Mia Jacobsen, Yuri Bizzoni, Pascale Feldkamp Moreira, Kristoffer L. Nielbo
• In the Context of Narrative, we Never Properly Defined the Concept of Valence 740-760
  Peter Boot, Angel Daza, Carsten Schnober, Willem van Hage
• Exploration of Event Extraction Techniques in Late Medieval and Early Modern Administrative Records 761-771
  Ismail Prada Ziegler
• Literary Time Travel: Distinguishing Past and Contemporary Worlds in Danish and Norwegian Fiction 772-787
  Jens Bjerring-Hansen, Ali Al-Laith, Daniel Hershcovich, Alexander Conroy, Sebastian Ørtoft Rasmussen
• Who Advertises in Newspapers? Data Criticism in Mining Historical Job Ads 788-801
  Klara Venglarova, Raven Adam, Wiltrud Mölzer, Saranya Balasubramanian, Jörn Kleinert, Manfred Füllsack, Georg Vogeler
• Greatest Hits Versus Deep Cuts: Exploring Variety in Set-lists Across Artists and Musical Genres 802-828
  Edward Abel, Andrew Goddard
• Context is Key(NMF): Modelling Topical Information Dynamics in Chinese Diaspora Media 829-847
  Ross Deans Kristensen-McLachlan, Rebecca M.M. Hicke, Márton Kardos, Mette Thunø
• Tracing the Development of the Virtual Particle Concept Using Semantic Change Detection 848-868
  Michael Zichert, Adrian Wüthrich
• Assessing Burial Mound Intervisibility and Prominence at Regional Scale 869-880
  Adela Sobotkova
• Abbreviation Application: A Stylochronometric Study of Abbreviations in the Oeuvre of Herne’s Speculum Scribe 881-891
  Caroline Vandyck, Mike Kestemont
• Visual Navigation of Digital Libraries: Retrieval and Classification of Images in the National Library of Norway’s Digitised Book Collection 892-905
  Marie Roald, Magnus Breder Birkenes, Lars Gunnarsønn Bagøien Johnsen
• Exploring the Evolution of Gender Power Difference through the Omegaverse Trope on AO3 Fanfiction 906-916
  Xiaoyan Yang, Federio Pianzola
• Subversive Characters and Stereotyping Readers: Characterizing Queer Relationalities with Dialogue-Based Relation Extraction 917-937
  Kent K. Chang, Anna Ho, David Bamman
• Censorship as a Dissociative Force: A Case of Sovremennik Magazine, 1847–1866 938-949
  Ekaterina Vozhik, Kirill Maslinsky, Roman Lisiukov
• And then I saw it: Testing Hypotheses on Turning Points in a Corpus of UFO Sighting Reports 950-960
  Jan Langenhorst, Robert C. Schuppe, Yannick Frommherz
• Remember to Forget: A Study on Verbatim Memorization of Literature in Large Language Models 961-981
  Xinhao Zhang, Olga Seminck, Pascal Amsili
• Sequencing Literary Reception: Trajectories of Russian Novels over the Afterlife Course 982-998
  Alexander Kim
• Page Embeddings: Extracting and Classifying Historical Documents with Generic Vector Representations 999-1011
  Carsten Schnober, Renate Smit, Manjusha Kuruppath, Kay Pepping, Leon van Wissen, Lodewijk Petram
• Revolution + Love: Measuring the Entanglements of State Violence and Emotions in Early PRC 1012-1022
  Maciej Kurzynski, Aaron Gilkison
• Animacy in German Folktales 1023-1036
  Julian Häußler, Janis von Keitz, Evelyn Gius
• A quantitative study of gender representation and authors' gender in a large-market print medium 1037-1052
  Christoph Bartl, Sharwin Rezagholi, Mareike Schumacher
• Direct and Indirect Annotation with Generative AI: A Case Study into Finding Animals and Plants in Historical Text 1053-1074
  Arjan van Dalfsen, Folgert Karsdorp, Ayoub Bagheri, Dieuwertje Mentink, Thirza van Engelen, Els Stronks
• Sub-optimal Recall in Visual Cluster Retrieval: When Clusters Look Like Bridges 1075-1085
  Mathieu Jacomy, Matilde Ficozzi, Anders K. Munk
• Automatic Translation Alignment Pipeline for Multilingual Digital Editions of Literary Works 1086-1104
  Maria Levchenko
• SCIENCE IS EXPLORATION: Computational Frontiers for Conceptual Metaphor Theory 1105-1116
  Rebecca M. M. Hicke, Ross Deans Kristensen-McLachlan
• The discourse of the French method: making old knowledge on market gardening accessible to machines and humans 1117-1127
  David Colliaux, Remi van Trijp
• Treating Games as Plays? Computational Approaches to the Detection of Scenes in Game Dialogs 1128-1138
  Martin Schlenk, Thomas Efer, Manuel Burghardt
• Early Modern Book Catalogues and Multilingualism: Identifying Multilingual Texts and Translations using Titles 1139-1157
  Yann Ryan, Margherita Fantoli
• Univariate Statistical Analysis of a Non-Canonical Literary Genre. Quantifying German-Language One-Act Plays (1740–1850) 1158-1174
  Viktor J. Illmer, Dîlan Canan Çakir, Frank Fischer, Lilly Welz, Carsten Milling
• Models of Literary Evaluation and Web 2.0. An Annotation Experiment with Goodreads Reviews 1175-1200
  Simone Rebora, Gabriele Vezzani
• Does ChatGPT Have a Poetic Style? 1201-1219
  Melanie Walsh, Anna Preus, Elizabeth Gronski
• Text Mining to unveil Prehistoric Pastness in Museums 1220-1230
  Haley Anne Schwartz, Paula Jardón Giner, Xavier Rubio Campillo
• Computational segmentation of Wayang Kulit video recordings using a Cross-Attention Temporal Model 1231-1241
  Hong Wei Shawn Liew, Miguel Escobar Varela
• Viability of Zero-shot Classification and Search of Historical Photos 1242-1258
  Erika Maksimova, Mari-Anna Meimer, Mari Piirsalu, Priit Järv
• Rediscovering the 1890s: A Norwegian Poetry Corpus 1259-1271
  Ranveig Kvinnsland, Ingerid Løyning Dale, Lars Magne Tungland