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Stanford Literary Lab @stanfordlitlab.bsky.social · 8d

We're thrilled to see our publication out this week! 🥳
#JCLS is such a great place to publish our project results.
Many thanks to the editorial team for the quick publication process and for the great discussion at #CCLS2025!

--> #Code&Data can be found here:
github.com/literarylab/...

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Svenja Guhr @guhrs.bsky.social · 8d

Exciting to see my publication with @stanfordlitlab.bsky.social in #JCLS 4(1)! It's been such a great journey discovering #DomesticSpace in 19th-Century #English-language #fiction and presenting our results at #CCLS2025. 🏡🚢🏙️🌉

JCLS @jcls-io.bsky.social · 8d

#CLS meets #spatial analysis! 🏡
"Making #BERT Feel at Home. Modelling #DomesticSpace in #19th-Century British and Irish #Fiction" by @guhrs.bsky.social, J. Monaco, @alexsherman.bsky.social, @mattgwr.bsky.social and M. Algee-Hewitt is now live at #JCLS 4(1). 10.48694/jcls.4164 #transformer

First page of JCLS 4(1) article by Guhr et al. (2025)

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JCLS @jcls-io.bsky.social · 8d

How “domestic” is a #Victorian novel?
Guhr et al. fine-tune a #LanguageModel to detect implicit domestic spaces – rooms, gardens, even #ships – beyond obvious keywords like 'house' or 'home.' – A new way to read #19th-century #fiction through the lens of #space and study the rise of #domesticity.

The graph with green domesticity score dots shows a rising trendline in the 19th century.

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JCLS @jcls-io.bsky.social · 8d

#CLS meets #spatial analysis! 🏡
"Making #BERT Feel at Home. Modelling #DomesticSpace in #19th-Century British and Irish #Fiction" by @guhrs.bsky.social, J. Monaco, @alexsherman.bsky.social, @mattgwr.bsky.social and M. Algee-Hewitt is now live at #JCLS 4(1). 10.48694/jcls.4164 #transformer

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JCLS @jcls-io.bsky.social · 8d

🚨 The new week starts with a new #JCLS 4(1) publication! The next article of this year's conference track, #CCLS2025, is here! doi.org/10.48694/jcl...

Making BERT Feel at Home. Modelling Domestic Space in 19th-Century British and Irish Fiction

We introduce a novel approach to detecting domestic space in literary texts beyond explicit spatial markers like “home” or “house.” Using a pre-trained English BERT model fine-tuned on manually annota...

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JCLS @jcls-io.bsky.social · 14d

✍️ Mark your calendars - here are the important dates:
🏰 CCLS26 takes place from 28-29, 2026, at the @unipotsdam.bsky.social, Germany;
🗓️ Deadline for submissions: January 8, 2026;
🔜 Submissions open: starting November 3, 2025.
jcls.io/site/dates/

Important Dates

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JCLS @jcls-io.bsky.social · 14d

🗓️ We are thrilled to announce the Call for Papers for the conference+journal track of the 5th annual Conference of Computational Literary Studies, May 28-29, 2026, in #Potsdam, #Germany! #CCLS26 #CfP

Submit your article by January 8, 2026, and be part of our big 5-year jubilee edition! 🥳🥳🥳

Call for Papers

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JCLS @jcls-io.bsky.social · 15d

Thank you for the feedback! It has been a pleasure working with you, too!
#OpenAccess #JournalPublishing #CLS

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Maria Levchenko @maria-lev.bsky.social · 16d

Journal of Computational Literary Studies has the most beautiful journal design — and such a great team behind it! Happy and honoured to be published here: bsky.app/profile/jcls... Many thanks to everyone involved! 💙