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Svenja Guhr
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Computational Literary Studies
Postdoc at @berkeleyischool.bsky.social
Founding member of @fortextlab.bsky.social
Visiting Scholar @stanfordlitlab.bsky.social
Editorial Ass. @jcls-io.bsky.social
Website: svenjaguhr.github.io
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"The nightmare of generative narratology" - "A sea of blah"... 🌊 Will we drown? #GenerativeLLM #StoryTelling
Yuri presents his dream and nightmare visions of generative narratology
October 2, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Are stories machines that make us feel? Yuri Bizzoni rethinks #SentimentAnalysis in #CLS in his talk at Atelier: "Narratologie et humanités numériques", ENS Paris/Sorbonne nouvelle
Yuri presents on Literature as Emotional Technology
October 2, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Today’s #highlight for me on the last day of #DH2025? @lucagiovannini.bsky.social presenting his "Modest Proposal for Operationalizing Dramatic Texts". He proposes drama vectorization not to simplify plays, but rather to continue formalist morphological thinking using computational tools. 🎭📊
Luca presenting at DH2025 Luca's main takeaway
July 18, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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#DH2025: From my home region in Lower Saxony 🇩🇪, Lina Franken & Sabina Mollenhauer present a research-driven curation approach to archive the everyday culture of rural community halls. Wedding menus, party photos, and memories become material traces of intangible #CulturalHeritage. #DigitalArchives
Sabina presents their workflow at DH2025 Slide with photos used as source to archive intangible cultural heritage
July 18, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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And they are exactly as trashy as we love them to be! 🥳 📚👩‍💻
Box of paper back books of the Harlequin Man Made in America series
July 17, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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#DH2025: So exciting to see #hallucination rates calculated in #CLS with #LLMs. Great work by @sgriebel.bsky.social, Layne-Worthey, et al. on the ongoing challenge of #CharacterAttribution in English fiction titled "Strictly Speaking: Character Attribution in Literary Dialogue with Language Models"
Hallucination Rates for the study of speaker attribution in Middlemarch Hallucination Type in the study of speaker attribution in Middlemarch
July 16, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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Exiting for all studying canonization processes, she presents her numerical canonization score, which measures and compares canonicity across English and German literary corpora. She asks, "What population of texts is actually suitable for studying canonization as a literary-historical phenomenon?"
Judith presenting her corpus workflow
July 16, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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Today at #DH2025, my dear colleague, @jbrottrager.bsky.social, presents her recently completed Ph.D. project, "The Canon and 'The Great Unread,'" which examines #English- and #German-language fiction diachronically. #PhDone #Canonization #ComparativeLiteraryStudies #CLS #Canon #GreatUnread #Fiction
Judith Brottrager presenting at #DH2025
July 16, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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So good to see their #CLS work on time analysis of English fiction of the modernist era being part of #DH2025!!!
Past, present, and future - time analysis of "To the Lighthouse"
July 15, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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@lucagiovannini.bsky.social and I are ready for day 2 at #DH2025! ☀️
So good to see colleagues from all around the world 🗺️

Who else is at the mini conference “The Times they are a-changing”?
Svenja Guhr and Luca Giovannini in front of DH2025 poster
July 15, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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#DH2025: My #highlight of the first day was @jbrottrager.bsky.social talking about her recently completed and defended Ph.D. thesis, "Relating the Unread." Congratulations again! 🥳 Your book will be the must-read in literary #canonization studies - don't make us wait too long! #CLS
Judith Brottrager presenting her recently completed PhD thesis at #DH2025
July 14, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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#DH2025: Super exciting #CLS work by Enrica Bruno (University of Bologna) on "Breaking the Line: Towards a Semantic Framework for Non-Linear Literary Phenomena".
Guillaume Apollinaire's Calligramme de la Tour Eiffel Enrica Bruno presenting her PhD topic at #DH2025
July 14, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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#DH2025: Fascinating #CLS work on mapping fictional #toponyms in #CzechLiterature by Richard Změlík (Palacký University Olomouc). Check it out: www.korpusprozy.com/03_ARBES/Car...
A map of fictional Prague, based on the topographies mentioned in the annotated novels.
July 14, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Guided city tour through Krakow. #CCLS2025 #AfterParty
July 4, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Even better than promised and they serve local wine form the University’s vineyard 🍷 @jcls-io.bsky.social
July 3, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Excited for the conference dinner 🤩 #CCLS2025 in the Stuba Communis at Collegium Maius, Krakow
July 3, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Yesterday, I gave a #talk on a comparative character sound analysis of Fontane's Effi Briest and Reuter's Aus guter Familie in the DH-Lab@Philturm @uni-hamburg.de.
Slides, code, and interactive visualizations can be found here: github.com/SvenjaGuhr/C...
#LiteraryComputing #CLS #LiteraryStudies
Comparison of the average character loudness of the two female main characters Effi and Agathe over the course of the fiction segmented by scenes.
June 18, 2025 at 5:48 AM
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There are #interactive #visualizations like this drop-down menu option to see the most distinctive words either for an entire year, for a single abstract, or - wait for it - for an #author!
Give it a try and find out about your own #DHd conference abstracts! svenjaguhr.github.io/blog-posts/d...
May 13, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Based on an analysis of #DHd conference abstracts, I trace the evolution of #CLS methods from 2014 to 2025: from omnipresent #NetworkAnalysis and #Annotation, to the first appearance of #TopicModeling and #SentimentAnalysis, to #DeepLearning and #GenerativeAI.
Visualization of the methods used as keyword clusters per abstract shows the relative share (%) of the method groups per year.
May 13, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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@alielassche.bsky.social presents joined work on #canonization, proposing "non-canonical canonicals", referring to earlier findings in Feldkamp et al. (2024). "A canonical textual profile is not enough to become canonical". #NAACL2025 #SIGHUM
Slide by Alie Lassche on tasks and hypotheses of their work on canonization in danish literature
May 4, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Janis Pagel from @idhcologne.bsky.social introduces #CLS to the audience at #NAACL2025 #SIGHUM. Their paper "Evaluating LLM-Prompting for Sequence Labeling Tasks in Computational Literary Studies" evaluates #SentimentAnalysis and #EventDetection tasks with #LLMs. aclanthology.org/2025.latechc...
Janis Pagel introducing Computational Literary Studies to the workshop audience at SIGHUM NAACL2025. Slide with explanation of CLS.
May 4, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Final day of #NAACL2025 + workshops, it’s time for #SIGHUM LaTeCH CLfL 2025 #DigitalHumanities #LanguageTechnology #Socio-EconomicSciences #Humanities
Screenshot of SIGHUM website with head of the workshop program
May 4, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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How do you generalize the pre-training of a model to tasks you never thought of?
#NAACL2025 #keynote #Llama4
Keynote slide by Mike Lewis with audience and stage at NAACL2025
May 1, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Back in Göttingen for a weekend of swimming to renew my lifeguard license, I am working remotely today from the library of my alma mater @unigoettingen.bsky.social. Seeing the first-year student activities, I'm reminded that 9 years ago this month, I was a new master student myself. How time flies!
Freshmen activities on the main square of the campus of the university of Göttingen, Germany. University buildings in the back in brutalism style. Costumed students in the front playing games on the square.
April 11, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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The sun also shines in Bielefeld! ☀️ Biele-what? Believe it or not! 😄 #DHd2025 #Conference #DigitalHumanities
Svenja in the sun in front of University of Applied Sciences HSIB Bielefeld. “Research” written on the ground.
March 3, 2025 at 11:56 AM