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# CHR 2020
Computational Humanities Research 2020

### Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Humanities Research (CHR 2020)

### Amsterdam, the Netherlands, November 18-20, 2020.

Edited by

### Folgert Karsdorp *
Barbara McGillivray **, ***
Adina Nerghes ****
Melvin Wevers *****

* Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Meertens Instituut, 1012 DK Amsterdam, the Netherlands
** University of Cambridge, CB2 1TN Cambridge, England *** The Alan Turing Institute, NW1 2DB London, England
**** Wageningen University & Research, Social Sciences Group, 6708 PB Wageningen, the Netherlands
***** University of Amsterdam, Faculty of Humanities, 1012 WX Amsterdam, the Netherlands

## Table of Contents

- Preface

### Presented Papers

- Cultural Accumulation and Improvement in Online Fan Fiction 2-11
  Federico Pianzola, Alberto Acerbi, Simone Rebora
- Weak Genres: Modeling Association Between Poetic Meter and Meaning in Russian Poetry 12-31
  Artjoms Šeļa, Boris Orekhov, Roman Leibov
- Weak Negative Correlation between the Present Day Popularity and the Mean Emotional Valence of Late Victorian Novels 32-43
  Stefan Veleski
- Estimating the Loss of Medieval Literature with an Unseen Species Model from Ecodiversity 44-55
  Mike Kestemont, Folgert Karsdorp
- The Order of Things. A Study on Topic Modelling of Literary Texts 57-76
  Inna Uglanova, Evelyn Gius
- A Statistical Foray into Contextual Aspects of Intertextuality 77-96
  Enrique Manjavacas, Folgert Karsdorp, Mike Kestemont
- The Rise and Fall of Genre Differentiation in English-Language Fiction 97-114
  Aniruddha Sharma, Yuerong Hu, Peizhen Wu, Wenyi Shang, Shubhangi Singhal, Ted Underwood
- A Computational Expedition into the Undiscovered Country - Evaluating Neural Networks for the Identification of Hamlet Text Reuse 115-127
  Maximilian Bryan, Manuel Burghardt, Johannes Molz
- Comparative Religion, Topic Models, and Conceptualization: Towards the Characterization of Structural Relationships between Online Religious Discourses 128-148
  Zachary K. Stine, James E. Deitrick, Nitin Agarwal
- Online Book Reviews and the Computational Modelling of Reading Impact 149-169
  Marijn Koolen, Peter Boot, Joris J. van Zundert
- Nothing New Under the Sun? Computational Humanities and the Methodology of History 171-181
  Michael Piotrowski, Mateusz Fafinski
- Computing Narrative 182-190
  Ben Miller, Julie S. Park
- Toward a Thermodynamics of Meaning 191-201
  Jonathan Scott Enderle
- Generative Digital Humanities 202-212
  Fabian Offert, Peter Bell
- Pitch-Class Distributions in the Music of Anton Webern 214-224
  Joshua Ballance
- Toward a Musical Sentiment (MuSe) Dataset for Affective Distant Hearing 225-235
  Christopher Akiki, Manuel Burghardt
- Exploiting Cross-Dialectal Gold Syntax for Low-Resource Historical Languages: Towards a Generic Parser for Pre-Modern Slavic 237-247
  Nilo Pedrazzini
- Domain and Task Adaptive Pretraining for Language Models 248-256
  Leonard Konle, Fotis Jannidis
- What about Grammar? Using BERT Embeddings to Explore Functional-Semantic Shifts of Semi-Lexical and Grammatical Constructions 257-268
  Lauren Fonteyn
- A Linguistic Approach to Misinformation in Chinese 269-278
  Charles Lam, Brian Leung, Cora Yip, Jason Yung
- Quantifying Bias and Uncertainty in Historical Data Collections with Probabilistic Programming 280-289
  Leo Lahti, Eetu Mäkelä, Mikko Tolonen
- Trend Reservoir Detection: Minimal Persistence and Resonant Behavior of Trends in Social Media 290-297
  Kristoffer L. Nielbo, Peter B. Vahlstrup, Anja Bechmann, Jianbo Gao
- Measuring the Acceleration of the Social Construction of Time using the BOE (Boletin Oficial del Estado) 298-308
  Elena Fernández Fernández, Mirco Schoenfeld, Juergen Pfeffer
- Transfer Learning for Historical Corpora: An Assessment on Post-OCR Correction and Named Entity Recognition 310-339
  Konstantin Todorov, Giovanni Colavizza
- Between Flexibility and Universality: Combining TAGML and XML to Enhance the Modeling of Cultural Heritage Text 340-350
  Elli Bleeker, Bram Buitendijk, Ronald Haentjens Dekker
- From Historical Newspapers to Machine-Readable Data: The Origami OCR Pipeline 351-373
  Bernhard Liebl, Manuel Burghardt
- Quantifying Iconicity in 940K Online Circulations of 26 Iconic Photographs 375-384
  Thomas Smits, Ruben Ros
- Networking Archives: Quantitative History and the Contingent Archive 385-396
  Yann Ryan, Sebastian Ahnert, Ruth Ahnert
- Automatic Creation of a Large-Scale Tempo-Spatial and Semantic Medieval European Information System 397-419
  Juri Opitz

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