fortext lab
@fortextlab.bsky.social
Computational Literary Studies und Computational Narratology #DH #DigitalHumanities
Directed by @evelyngius.bsky.social, TU Darmstadt
More information about our lab: https://fortext.org/en/
Annotation Software CATMA: https://catma.de, @catma.bsky.social
Directed by @evelyngius.bsky.social, TU Darmstadt
More information about our lab: https://fortext.org/en/
Annotation Software CATMA: https://catma.de, @catma.bsky.social
For the last two weeks the fortext lab hosted the Georgian DH-Expert Irakli Khvedelidze (Shota Rustaveli Institute of Georgian Literature). Alongside various meetings exchanging experiences and ideas, Irakli gave a public talk on research in the field of Digital Literary Studies in Georgia. (1/5)
November 26, 2025 at 3:06 PM
For the last two weeks the fortext lab hosted the Georgian DH-Expert Irakli Khvedelidze (Shota Rustaveli Institute of Georgian Literature). Alongside various meetings exchanging experiences and ideas, Irakli gave a public talk on research in the field of Digital Literary Studies in Georgia. (1/5)
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Quick reminder: Join us at our free CATMA Workshop next week!
➡️ 24th of November 2025, 16:00/4pm CET (3pm GMT, 10am EST, 9am CST, 7am PST)
➡️ Duration: 2 hours
➡️ Location: tu-darmstadt.zoom-x.de/j/6397993214... (no registration required)
See you there!
➡️ 24th of November 2025, 16:00/4pm CET (3pm GMT, 10am EST, 9am CST, 7am PST)
➡️ Duration: 2 hours
➡️ Location: tu-darmstadt.zoom-x.de/j/6397993214... (no registration required)
See you there!
Join our Cloud HD Video Meeting
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November 17, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Quick reminder: Join us at our free CATMA Workshop next week!
➡️ 24th of November 2025, 16:00/4pm CET (3pm GMT, 10am EST, 9am CST, 7am PST)
➡️ Duration: 2 hours
➡️ Location: tu-darmstadt.zoom-x.de/j/6397993214... (no registration required)
See you there!
➡️ 24th of November 2025, 16:00/4pm CET (3pm GMT, 10am EST, 9am CST, 7am PST)
➡️ Duration: 2 hours
➡️ Location: tu-darmstadt.zoom-x.de/j/6397993214... (no registration required)
See you there!
Last week, we held a small but intensive workshop in Darmstadt on how literary history and computation can go together. The talks either adapted traditional literary concepts for computational analysis or introduced new digital approaches. (1/3)
November 4, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Last week, we held a small but intensive workshop in Darmstadt on how literary history and computation can go together. The talks either adapted traditional literary concepts for computational analysis or introduced new digital approaches. (1/3)
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The second public CATMA workshop this year is taking place in November! Here are the details:
✏️ 24th of November 2025, 16:00/4pm CET (3pm GMT, 10am EST, 9am CST, 7am PST)
Duration: 2 hours
Language: English
Location: Online via Zoom 🎥: tu-darmstadt.zoom-x.de/j/6397993214...
See you there!
✏️ 24th of November 2025, 16:00/4pm CET (3pm GMT, 10am EST, 9am CST, 7am PST)
Duration: 2 hours
Language: English
Location: Online via Zoom 🎥: tu-darmstadt.zoom-x.de/j/6397993214...
See you there!
Join our Cloud HD Video Meeting
Zoom is the leader in modern enterprise cloud communications.
tu-darmstadt.zoom-x.de
October 31, 2025 at 11:57 AM
The second public CATMA workshop this year is taking place in November! Here are the details:
✏️ 24th of November 2025, 16:00/4pm CET (3pm GMT, 10am EST, 9am CST, 7am PST)
Duration: 2 hours
Language: English
Location: Online via Zoom 🎥: tu-darmstadt.zoom-x.de/j/6397993214...
See you there!
✏️ 24th of November 2025, 16:00/4pm CET (3pm GMT, 10am EST, 9am CST, 7am PST)
Duration: 2 hours
Language: English
Location: Online via Zoom 🎥: tu-darmstadt.zoom-x.de/j/6397993214...
See you there!
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📢 Reminder – The forTEXT journal's Open Call is still live! We’re looking for German-language teaching concepts on text annotation in higher education. Deadline: Oct 31 👉 journal.fortext.org/site/cfp/ (1/3)
October 20, 2025 at 9:57 AM
📢 Reminder – The forTEXT journal's Open Call is still live! We’re looking for German-language teaching concepts on text annotation in higher education. Deadline: Oct 31 👉 journal.fortext.org/site/cfp/ (1/3)
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On Friday 7th November, Prof. Jenny Kwok (Hong Kong Baptist University) will present a public lecture entitled "Retrieving Context, Re-centering Interpretation: AI Hermeneutics and the Democratization of Reading"📚
Join us online for #FridayFrontiers!
➡️ Register here: www.dariah.eu/2025/06/13/r...
Join us online for #FridayFrontiers!
➡️ Register here: www.dariah.eu/2025/06/13/r...
October 24, 2025 at 11:30 AM
On Friday 7th November, Prof. Jenny Kwok (Hong Kong Baptist University) will present a public lecture entitled "Retrieving Context, Re-centering Interpretation: AI Hermeneutics and the Democratization of Reading"📚
Join us online for #FridayFrontiers!
➡️ Register here: www.dariah.eu/2025/06/13/r...
Join us online for #FridayFrontiers!
➡️ Register here: www.dariah.eu/2025/06/13/r...
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Folks in DH working with German-language data!
Here’s a resource I put together with corpora of both fiction and non-fiction works from the Gutenberg libraries, about 5,000 books in total, including metadata on genre and author gender 📚 🧮
openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/articles/10....
Here’s a resource I put together with corpora of both fiction and non-fiction works from the Gutenberg libraries, about 5,000 books in total, including metadata on genre and author gender 📚 🧮
openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/articles/10....
de-Corp: A Corpus of German-language Fiction and Non-Fiction (1780–1930) | Journal of Open Humanities Data
openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com
October 13, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Folks in DH working with German-language data!
Here’s a resource I put together with corpora of both fiction and non-fiction works from the Gutenberg libraries, about 5,000 books in total, including metadata on genre and author gender 📚 🧮
openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/articles/10....
Here’s a resource I put together with corpora of both fiction and non-fiction works from the Gutenberg libraries, about 5,000 books in total, including metadata on genre and author gender 📚 🧮
openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/articles/10....
📢 Reminder – The forTEXT journal's Open Call is still live! We’re looking for German-language teaching concepts on text annotation in higher education. Deadline: Oct 31 👉 journal.fortext.org/site/cfp/ (1/3)
October 20, 2025 at 9:57 AM
📢 Reminder – The forTEXT journal's Open Call is still live! We’re looking for German-language teaching concepts on text annotation in higher education. Deadline: Oct 31 👉 journal.fortext.org/site/cfp/ (1/3)
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#DH2026 CFP is now live! Submit your work on fostering meaningful connection between communities, cultures and emerging technologies.
🔗 Visit to learn more and submit your entry: dh2026.adho.org/cfp/: dh2026.adho.org/cfp/
🗓️ Deadline: Dec 8, 2025
#DigitalHumanities #DH2026 #Engagement
🔗 Visit to learn more and submit your entry: dh2026.adho.org/cfp/: dh2026.adho.org/cfp/
🗓️ Deadline: Dec 8, 2025
#DigitalHumanities #DH2026 #Engagement
October 13, 2025 at 8:22 AM
#DH2026 CFP is now live! Submit your work on fostering meaningful connection between communities, cultures and emerging technologies.
🔗 Visit to learn more and submit your entry: dh2026.adho.org/cfp/: dh2026.adho.org/cfp/
🗓️ Deadline: Dec 8, 2025
#DigitalHumanities #DH2026 #Engagement
🔗 Visit to learn more and submit your entry: dh2026.adho.org/cfp/: dh2026.adho.org/cfp/
🗓️ Deadline: Dec 8, 2025
#DigitalHumanities #DH2026 #Engagement
What can students of #ComputationalLiteraryStudies and #DigitalHumanities @tuda.bsky.social expect in the coming months? A brief overview of the fortext lab's teaching activities: (1/4)
October 14, 2025 at 8:51 AM
What can students of #ComputationalLiteraryStudies and #DigitalHumanities @tuda.bsky.social expect in the coming months? A brief overview of the fortext lab's teaching activities: (1/4)
At this week’s closing meeting of the DFG Priority Programme Computational Literary Studies at @uni-wuerzburg.de, 19 talks were presented and discussed over 4 days with more than 40 participants. An inspiring week full of exchange and ideas! #ComputationalLiteraryStudies #CLS #DH (1/4)
October 10, 2025 at 8:42 AM
At this week’s closing meeting of the DFG Priority Programme Computational Literary Studies at @uni-wuerzburg.de, 19 talks were presented and discussed over 4 days with more than 40 participants. An inspiring week full of exchange and ideas! #ComputationalLiteraryStudies #CLS #DH (1/4)
Last week we got together for our yearly lab retreat! For 2,5 days we planned, discussed and brainstormed together, tucked away in a monastery (no joke) in beautiful Fulda. (1/4)
September 29, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Last week we got together for our yearly lab retreat! For 2,5 days we planned, discussed and brainstormed together, tucked away in a monastery (no joke) in beautiful Fulda. (1/4)
At #Germanistentag 2025's panel "Network as Method", @haimostiemer.bsky.social presented the ChiA project, developed at @fortextlab.bsky.social in collaboration with @evelyngius.bsky.social. #germanistik #CLS #fortextlab @tu-braunschweig.de (1/5)
September 22, 2025 at 12:01 PM
At #Germanistentag 2025's panel "Network as Method", @haimostiemer.bsky.social presented the ChiA project, developed at @fortextlab.bsky.social in collaboration with @evelyngius.bsky.social. #germanistik #CLS #fortextlab @tu-braunschweig.de (1/5)
Good research needs strong scientific communities! That's why earlier this week, fortext lab members @evelyngius.bsky.social, Stefanie Messner and @julianhaeussler.bsky.social attended the CRETA-Werkstatt. A gathering of the Centre for Reflected Text Analysis (@cretaverein.bsky.social). (1/4)
September 18, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Good research needs strong scientific communities! That's why earlier this week, fortext lab members @evelyngius.bsky.social, Stefanie Messner and @julianhaeussler.bsky.social attended the CRETA-Werkstatt. A gathering of the Centre for Reflected Text Analysis (@cretaverein.bsky.social). (1/4)
We are in the university campus quiz category. Who knows where the PLANS project met yesterday? In PLANS we explore text phenomena relevant for action and tackle CLS challenges like segmentation. #fortext #CLS #DigitalHumanities #DH #CompLit (1/3)
September 10, 2025 at 1:26 PM
We are in the university campus quiz category. Who knows where the PLANS project met yesterday? In PLANS we explore text phenomena relevant for action and tackle CLS challenges like segmentation. #fortext #CLS #DigitalHumanities #DH #CompLit (1/3)
A lot has happened over the summer break. One highlight: the white paper Doing AI Differently from the Alan Turing Institute – co-authored by @EvelynGius along with 50+ international colleagues.
Core message: We need a fundamental shift in AI development! 👉 www.turing.ac.uk/news/publica... (1/4)
Core message: We need a fundamental shift in AI development! 👉 www.turing.ac.uk/news/publica... (1/4)
Doing AI differently
Artificial Intelligence is rapidly becoming global infrastructure – shaping decisions in healthcare, education, industry and everyday life.
www.turing.ac.uk
September 4, 2025 at 8:50 AM
A lot has happened over the summer break. One highlight: the white paper Doing AI Differently from the Alan Turing Institute – co-authored by @EvelynGius along with 50+ international colleagues.
Core message: We need a fundamental shift in AI development! 👉 www.turing.ac.uk/news/publica... (1/4)
Core message: We need a fundamental shift in AI development! 👉 www.turing.ac.uk/news/publica... (1/4)
We’ve recently started sharing teaching concepts in the forTEXT issue “Text Annotation in Higher Education.” Now we’re on the lookout for more German-language perspectives on how it’s taught, practiced, and conceptualized. Our call for papers is open again 👉 journal.fortext.org/site/cfp (1/3)
August 25, 2025 at 12:21 PM
We’ve recently started sharing teaching concepts in the forTEXT issue “Text Annotation in Higher Education.” Now we’re on the lookout for more German-language perspectives on how it’s taught, practiced, and conceptualized. Our call for papers is open again 👉 journal.fortext.org/site/cfp (1/3)
The narratological study of fairy tales has a long tradition - and it continues to offer fascinating insights today. This semester we explored them computationally with students, focusing on how characters shape narrative structures. #DigitalHumanities #DHinTeaching #AcademicTeaching #DHMakes (1/4)
August 20, 2025 at 8:41 AM
The narratological study of fairy tales has a long tradition - and it continues to offer fascinating insights today. This semester we explored them computationally with students, focusing on how characters shape narrative structures. #DigitalHumanities #DHinTeaching #AcademicTeaching #DHMakes (1/4)
We’re excited to release the second article in our forTEXT issue on text annotation in higher education! Discover how students dive into 1950s love letters, transcribing and annotating them with TEI-XML. 👉 doi.org/10.48694/for... (1/3)
Textauszeichnung: Digitale Edition und Kommentierung
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August 15, 2025 at 11:47 AM
We’re excited to release the second article in our forTEXT issue on text annotation in higher education! Discover how students dive into 1950s love letters, transcribing and annotating them with TEI-XML. 👉 doi.org/10.48694/for... (1/3)
How do we incorporate measurement theory into the Digital Humanities? This was the leading question in this term’s seminar, “Measurement across the Sciences”, led by @EvelynGius. Read on to find out more. (1/4)
August 11, 2025 at 11:52 AM
How do we incorporate measurement theory into the Digital Humanities? This was the leading question in this term’s seminar, “Measurement across the Sciences”, led by @EvelynGius. Read on to find out more. (1/4)
🎉 We’re excited to kick things off! We’re launching SemEval-2026 Task 4: Narrative Story Similarity and Narrative Representation Learning. This is a joint effort by @hanshatzel.bsky.social (University of Hamburg) and the fortext lab, as part of the PLANS project, in collaboration with Toloka AI.
August 1, 2025 at 3:15 PM
🎉 We’re excited to kick things off! We’re launching SemEval-2026 Task 4: Narrative Story Similarity and Narrative Representation Learning. This is a joint effort by @hanshatzel.bsky.social (University of Hamburg) and the fortext lab, as part of the PLANS project, in collaboration with Toloka AI.
The Final Countdown... ⏰
Hey everyone! Final reminder: Got 10–15 minutes? Help us make CATMA even better by taking our short, anonymous survey! It’s open to all experience levels and only takes a little of your time. Deadline: 31.07 👉 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Thanks a lot!
#CATMA #Survey #DigitalHumanities
Thanks a lot!
#CATMA #Survey #DigitalHumanities
CATMA SURVEY
Hello there!
We are delighted that you are using CATMA! To help us further improve CATMA, we kindly ask you to take part in this short survey. The survey takes about 10-15 minutes to complete.
Your an...
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July 29, 2025 at 1:26 PM
The Final Countdown... ⏰
Hey everyone! Final reminder: Got 10–15 minutes? Help us make CATMA even better by taking our short, anonymous survey! It’s open to all experience levels and only takes a little of your time. Deadline: 31.07 👉 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Thanks a lot!
#CATMA #Survey #DigitalHumanities
Thanks a lot!
#CATMA #Survey #DigitalHumanities
CATMA SURVEY
Hello there!
We are delighted that you are using CATMA! To help us further improve CATMA, we kindly ask you to take part in this short survey. The survey takes about 10-15 minutes to complete.
Your an...
docs.google.com
July 25, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Hey everyone! Final reminder: Got 10–15 minutes? Help us make CATMA even better by taking our short, anonymous survey! It’s open to all experience levels and only takes a little of your time. Deadline: 31.07 👉 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Thanks a lot!
#CATMA #Survey #DigitalHumanities
Thanks a lot!
#CATMA #Survey #DigitalHumanities
We’ve been spotlighting DH resources lately — now let’s take a closer look at three departments hosting Digital Humanities at German universities. (1/5)
July 23, 2025 at 3:31 PM
We’ve been spotlighting DH resources lately — now let’s take a closer look at three departments hosting Digital Humanities at German universities. (1/5)
Last week, our PLANS project presented at the Digital Humanities Conference in Lisbon 🇵🇹 - @haimostiemer.bsky.social and @hanshatzel.bsky.social shared our approach to thematic text analysis based on semantic verb classes in German literary texts. 🧵👇 (1/4)
July 22, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Last week, our PLANS project presented at the Digital Humanities Conference in Lisbon 🇵🇹 - @haimostiemer.bsky.social and @hanshatzel.bsky.social shared our approach to thematic text analysis based on semantic verb classes in German literary texts. 🧵👇 (1/4)