Today’s the day! Submit your abstract by midnight AoE and be part of our 5th Annual Conference #CCLS2026 @dhpotsdam.bsky.social !!! 💻📚🔦🔍

#LiteraryComputing #JCLS #DigitalHumanities

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Today’s the day! Submit your abstract by midnight AoE and be part of our 5th Annual Conference #CCLS2026 @dh_potsdam !!! 💻📚🔦🔍

#LiteraryComputing #JCLS #DigitalHumanities

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UC Berkeley students on campus

Last week (11–13 Feb), I had the pleasure of welcoming Prof. Michaela Mahlberg from @dhss_fau to the UC Berkeley School of Information
#DigitalHumanities #LiteraryComputing

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Last week (11–13 Feb), I had the pleasure of welcoming @michamahlberg.bsky.social from @dhssto.bsky.social the the @berkeleyischool.bsky.social
#DigitalHumanities #LiteraryComputing

JCLS article preview

🥳 It's time for a new article in #JCLS 5 (1)!
@nmhouston.bsky.social. 2026. “Rhymefindr. An Historical Poetics Method for Identifying Rhymes in Nineteenth-Century English Poetry.”
🔗 doi.org/10.48694/jcl...
#CCLS2025 #ComputationalPoetics #DigitalHumanities #LiteraryComputing

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I’ll be in Santiago de Chile (March 23–27) and would love to connect with folks working in Digital Humanities / Computational Literary Studies.

Any recommendations or contacts I should reach out to?
#CLS #DH #LiteraryComputing #Networking #JCLS

JCLS Welcome Slide of the Board Meeting 2026

Today was our annual board meeting, where the editors reported on the first 4 issues of #JCLS with statistics on the submission/acceptance ratio, conference participation, and the accelerated publication process since the first issue.
#LiteraryComputing #Journal #CCLS2026 #NewYear #Issue5

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🗓️ Mark your calendars!

#CCLS2026 will take place in beautiful #Potsdam 🏰 on May 28-29. Join us in person 👥 or online 💻 to discuss cutting-edge research in #CLS.

📚💻🔍 jcls.io/site/ccls2026/
@dhpotsdam.bsky.social #DH #LiteraryComputing

JCLS Workflow from CfP to Publication

At the moment, we're screening your articles and sending out the #review requests. If you want to know more about our #workflow, see: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... and doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

#CCLS2026 #journal #LiteraryComputing #JCLS #OpenAccess #DoubleBlind #Review

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Thank you for all the submissions we received for this year's #JCLS conference track!
#CLS #CCLS2026 #LiteraryComputing #DH #Conference

Table 3: Category-wise evaluation scores. Likert scores are averaged over both annotators, correlation measured between individual Likert scores and percent agreement.

🔍🧠 Their experiments show that #LLMs can produce reasonable poem descriptions, but struggle with more abstract interpretion, highlighting where #NLG currently meets its #limits in #LiteraryInterpretation.

#LiteraryComputing #Evaluation #GenerativeModels

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📢 New article in #JCLS 5(1)! 🎉
@axelpichler.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy, Endres, M. & @nilsreiter.de (2026) “#Interpretation, Argument, #Evaluation. A Workflow for Assessing #LLM-Generated Interpretations of #Poetry” doi.org/10.48694/jcl...

#RollingIssue #NLG #CLS #LiteraryComputing

Figure 3: Imagist vs. love poems in terms of dictionary features and embedding-based metrics. We use the feature values of the example poem lines among the most and least imageable lines as reference points in each case.

🎨📜 Through 3 experiments, including a case study on Imagist vs. love poetry, the authors show how multimodal embeddings help operationalize literary imagery at scale, while grappling with compositionality and the multimodal nature of literary meaning.
doi.org/10.48694/jcls.4219
#LiteraryComputing

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Service skeet: 1 hour and 2 minutes left till the #CfP closes! 💻
#JCLS #CCLS2026 #DigitalHumanities #LiteraryComputing #AoE

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📢 The call for papers for the conference track is closing soon. Submit by tonight, January 8 (AoE), and be part of #CCLS2026 in beautiful Potsdam this May. #CfP #CLS #OpenAccess #JCLS #ComputationalLiteraryStudies #LiteraryComputing
ℹ️ jcls.io/site/cfp/

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Time flies! 🗓️🎆💫
The members of the Stanford Literary Lab wish everyone a happy 2026 full of new exciting #DigitalHumanities and #ComputationalLiteraryStudies research!
#LiteraryComputing #CLS #DH #English #Literature

Call for Papers CCLS2026

New year, new #resolutions... like publishing #OpenAccess?
The call for papers for the next conference track is still open until January 8! Be part of the next journal issue and come to our conference in beautiful #Potsdam! #CCLS2026 #CfP #LiteraryComputing #CLS #DH #DiamondOpenAccess

Happy new year 2026

#JCLS wishes everyone a wonderful, healthy, and happy 2026! We hope you had a great winter break and are looking forward to another year of computational literary studies. #CCLS2026 #CfP #LiteraryComputing #CLS #DH

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📢 We celebrate the publication of our 50st article! 📢
🍾 🥳 🥂 🥳 🥂 🥳 🥂 🥳 🥂 🥳 🥂 🥳 🥂 🥳 🥂 🥳

💻📚 jcls.io 📚💻
#JCLS #CCLS2025 🔜 #CCLS2026 #LiteraryComputing
#ComputationalLiteraryStudies #Milestone

The authors discover that #LLMs perform surprisingly well on semantic relations and non-literal meaning but struggle with formal features like syllable counting and meter. They also tend to prefer established readings over original insights.
#Poetry #LiteraryComputing #CCLS2025 #CLS #JCLS

Call for Paper from website

Excited about the #JCLS articles and working on a #ComputationalLiteraryStudies draft yourself?
Be part of the journal and submit to our Conference Track by January 8: jcls.io/site/cfp/
#CCLS2026 #CLS #LiteraryComputing #CfP

As always: #OpenData persistently available at:
Du, K. (2025). Reconstructing Shuffled Text (Derived Text Formats) [Data set]. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
#CLS #CCLS25 #DTF #LiteraryComputing #LLM #Memorization

Figure 1: Reconstructing shuffled text using ChatGPT. The source text is in Table 1.

Table 1: An example of a text and its two variants in DTFs.

The authors tackle a major challenge in #NLP: #LLM-Memorization and #Copyright
👉 Can derived text formats (DTFs) be used safely for research on #in-copyright texts without enabling reconstruction of the original?
#CLS #NLG #DTF #LiteraryComputing #CCLS25 #OpenScience
jcls.io/issue/118/in...

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New article in #JCLS 4(1)! 🎉
Du, Ackerschewski, Navruz, Sınır, Valline & @christofs.bsky.social: “Reconstructing Shuffled Text. Bad Results for #NLP, but Good News for Using #In-Copyright Texts” doi.org/10.48694/jcl...

#CLS #DTF #LiteraryComputing #CCLS25 #OpenScience #Copyright

Exploring Measures of Distinctiveness. An Evaluation Using Synthetic Texts Measures of distinctiveness (aka keyness) are important tools for comparing groups of texts to identify each group's characteristic features. Evaluating these measures is essential to ensure their rel...

As always, #OpenData and #OpenCode are persistently available:
Havrylash, J., & Schöch, C. (2025). Syntetic texts evaluation with #pydistinto. Zenodo. 10.5281/zenodo.15525428.
And the article: doi.org/10.48694/jcl...
#JCLS #CCLS205 #LiteraryComputing #NLG #Evaluation

New article in #JCLS 4(1)! 🎉
Havrylash & @christofs.bsky.social introduce a method for evaluating measures of #distinctiveness ( #keyness ) using synthetically generated, fully controlled text data.
#CLS #TextAnalysis #Evaluation #NLP #NLG #LiteraryComputing #CCLS25
jcls.io/issue/118/in...

New week, new article in #JCLS 4(1)! 🚀
We’re excited to announce @andrewpiper.bsky.social: “Towards a Perspectival Moral History of the Novel Using #LLMs”. Using 9,000+ Wikipedia plot summaries, he asks: What life lessons do stories quietly teach us at scale?
#CCLS25 #CLS #LiteraryComputing

Figure 1: Gender classification for a character at different levels of granularity (blue = masculine, red = feminine). Saturation indicates model confidence.

Keith et al. develop quantitative methods to examine how gender is portrayed across 100+ 17th-century plays by #Calderón.
#CLS #DigitalHumanities #JCLS #LiteraryComputing #Plays #CCLS25 @dracor.org

As always: #OpenData and #OpenCode
Dekel, Y., Marienberg-Milikowsky, I., & Jacobson, G. A. (2025). "From Readers to Data." #JCLS 2025. Data set. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zeno....
#CCLS2025 #CLS #CitizenScience #Hebrew #LiteraryComputing #CulturalAnalytics

#DH2025: Later today, at 2PM in room Aud B3: @guhrs.bsky.social, Huijun Mao & ‪@alexsherman.bsky.social‬ tackle #SceneSegmentation in 20th-c US #Romance novels. Fine-tuning transformers vs. prompting #LLMs — who wins? #CLS #DigitalHumanities #Scenes #LiteraryComputing