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MITE - Make It Explicit
Here's their website for more information on the project: www.loa.istc.cnr.it/mite/

#CCLS2026 #fiction #literaryInterpretation #LiteraryComputing
May 29, 2026 at 9:49 AM
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#CCLS2026: Snacks & drinks on the rooftop terrace @dhpotsdam.bsky.social. The view could be worse. ☀️

#ComputationalLiteraryStudies #LiteraryComputing #JCLS #CCLS goes Potsdam
May 28, 2026 at 6:19 PM
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@peertrilcke.bsky.social: "And 'schwups' here we are!", welcoming the #ComputationalLiteraryStudies community to #CCLS2026 at Potsdam, @dhpotsdam.bsky.social

#JCLS #CCLS2026 #LiteraryComputing #5thAnniversary
Conference opening of #CCLS2026
May 28, 2026 at 10:55 AM
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📢 The Conference Reader is out!
It includes #preprints of the papers presented at #CCLS2026 in Potsdam, May 28-29.

📄 DOIs for individual papers:
jcls.io/site/ccls2026/

📒 Download the full reader:
jcls.io/media/journals/12/CCLS2026_Conference-Reader.pdf

#JCLS #LiteraryComputing #CulturalAnalytics
Screenshot of the first page of the conference reader of #CCLS2026
May 6, 2026 at 5:58 PM
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-- Registration is open! -- 🥳
Join us in beautiful Potsdam (or attend online) for a new round of computational literary studies research at #CCLS2026 on May 28 and 29.

jcls.io/site/ccls2026/
#DigitalHumanities #LiteraryComputing #CLS #JCLS #CHR @dhpotsdam.bsky.social @unipotsdam.bsky.social
Campus Am Neuen Palais, Building of the University of Potsdam
April 16, 2026 at 3:19 PM
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🥳 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
JCLS article preview
February 17, 2026 at 2:26 AM
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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
JCLS Welcome Slide of the Board Meeting 2026
January 20, 2026 at 6:06 PM
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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/
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Neues Palais, Potsdam
January 15, 2026 at 5:22 PM
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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
JCLS Workflow from CfP to Publication
January 15, 2026 at 5:17 PM
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Thank you for all the submissions we received for this year's #JCLS conference track!
#CLS #CCLS2026 #LiteraryComputing #DH #Conference
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January 15, 2026 at 5:15 PM
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🔍🧠 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
Table 3: Category-wise evaluation scores. Likert scores are averaged over both annotators, correlation measured between individual Likert scores and percent agreement.
January 14, 2026 at 10:31 PM
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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
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January 14, 2026 at 10:12 PM
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🎨📜 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
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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.
January 13, 2026 at 12:35 AM
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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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January 8, 2026 at 8:45 AM
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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
Call for Papers CCLS2026
January 2, 2026 at 7:21 AM
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#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
Happy new year 2026
January 2, 2026 at 7:18 AM
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📢 We celebrate the publication of our 50st article! 📢
🍾 🥳 🥂 🥳 🥂 🥳 🥂 🥳 🥂 🥳 🥂 🥳 🥂 🥳 🥂 🥳

💻📚 jcls.io 📚💻
#JCLS #CCLS2025 🔜 #CCLS2026 #LiteraryComputing
#ComputationalLiteraryStudies #Milestone
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December 19, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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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
December 10, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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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
Call for Paper from website
December 4, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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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
Reconstructing Shuffled Text (Derived Text Formats)
This dataset contains all the results (including reconstructed texts, similarity scores etc.) of the reconstrution of DTF texts. The work is presented at the 4th Annual Conference of Computational Lit...
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December 4, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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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
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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.
December 4, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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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
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December 4, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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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
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...
doi.org
November 21, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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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
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Journal of Computational Literary Studies | Issue: Issue: 1(4) (2025)
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November 21, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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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
Journal of Computational Literary Studies | Issue: Issue: 1(4) (2025)
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November 17, 2025 at 7:26 PM