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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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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! 💙

JCLS @jcls-io.bsky.social · 16d

How do literary communities actually form?
@maria-lev.bsky.social analyzes the networks of collaboration and aesthetic affinity that are documented through cultural events — e.g. readings, book launches, festivals. These real-world networks often remain invisible in text-based literary history.

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JCLS @jcls-io.bsky.social · 16d

@maria-lev.bsky.social’s "Computational Analysis of Literary Communities. Event-Based Social Network Study of St. Petersburg 1999-2019" is now live in the "Journal of Computational Literary Studies" 4(1)
👉 doi.org/10.48694/jcl...

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Oleg Sobchuk 🇺🇦 @sobchuk.bsky.social · Jul 5

Put your manuscript about computational poetics in the trustworthy hands of @artjomshl.bsky.social

Artjoms Šeļa @artjomshl.bsky.social · Jul 4

⚡ CFP: a themed issue in Computational Humanities Research!

Meaning, Form, and History in Computational Poetics: if you work on all things verse, all things form, in any language, consider submitting!

for questions reach out to me or @nmhouston.bsky.social !

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Call for Papers @ CHR: Meaning, Form, and History in Computational Poetics

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JCLS @jcls-io.bsky.social · Jul 3

Maria Levchenko presents her paper: Computational Analysis of Literary Communities: Event-Based Social Network Study of St. Petersburg 1999–2019 (doi.org/10.26083/tup...)
#CCLS2025

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JCLS @jcls-io.bsky.social · Apr 17

📬 First Easter eggs spotted this week! 🐣 Authors, check your mailboxes: acceptance notifications for #CCLS25 have just been sent out! #JCLS #ComputationalLiteraryStudies #LiteraryComputing #CLS jcls.io

harry potter is reading a letter from shms

ALT: harry potter is reading a letter from shms

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Computational Humanities Research @comphumresearch.bsky.social · Mar 26

🚨 Our Call for Papers is out! 🚨

We continue our tradition of providing a dedicated platform for presenting computational work that bridges formal methods and traditional inquiry in the arts and humanities.

Check out the website for all details: 2025.computational-humanities-research.org/cfp/

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · Jan 27

Preprint argues that LLMs outperform traditional approaches to handwriting recognition, especially with few-shot prompting. + arxiv.org/abs/2501.11623

Early evidence of how LLMs outperform traditional systems on OCR/HTR tasks for historical records

We explore the ability of two LLMs -- GPT-4o and Claude Sonnet 3.5 -- to transcribe historical handwritten documents in a tabular format and compare their performance to traditional OCR/HTR systems: E...

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Maria Levchenko @maria-lev.bsky.social · Dec 29

the same problem 😂

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