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Sentiment lexicons or BERT? A comparison of sentiment analysis approaches and their performance
No full textUsing a lexicon-based method, we have previously investigated emotions and sentiments in relation to the representation of landscape in Swiss literature, looking in particular at the differences between the rural and urban spaces portrayed in a corpus of Swiss novels written in German. The present paper takes a step forward, using manual annotation and advanced machine learning methods to train a fine-tuned model to recognise valence and arousal on a historical corpus. Our goals are higher levels of lexical coverage and validity when compared to our prior results obtained with sentiment lexicons
Swiss German Novel Collection (ELTeC-gsw)
No full text# ELTeC-CH
This is the Swiss novel collection for the ELTeC, the European Literary Text Collection, produced by the COST Action "Distant Reading for European Literary History" (CA16204, https://distant-reading.net).
## Release notes
General information about ELTeC releases is available at https://github.com/COST-ELTeC/ELTeC.
The ELTeC-gsw collection will contain 100 novels encoded at level 1. The corpus composition criteria are fulfilled.
## Contributors
* Collection editor(s): Giulia Grisot, Berenike Herrmann
* Sources: Textgrid Repository, Deutsches Textarchiv, KOLIMO, Project-gutenberg.de, e-rara.ch
## Licence
All texts included in this collection are in the public domain. The textual markup is provided with a Creative Commons Attribution International 4.0 licence (CC 0, https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/).The collection is in progress, further updates to be poste
Cultures of E/valuation on the Social Web
No full textThe aim of the special issue is to present theory-conscious studies of digital cultures of evaluation across a broad range of discourses on the social web
Tool Criticism in Practice. On Methods, Tools and Aims of Computational Literary Studies
No full textThis paper is a case-driven contribution to the discussion on the method-theory relationship in practices within the field of Computational Literary Studies (CLS). Progress in this field dedicated to the computational analysis of literary texts has long revolved around the new, digital tools: tools, as computational devices for analysis, have had here a comparatively strong status as research entities of their own, while their ontological status has remained unclear to the day. As a rule, they have widely been imported from the fields of data science and NLP, while less often being hand-tailored to specific tasks within interdisciplinary settings. Although studies within CLS are evolving to both a higher degree of specialization in method (going beyond the limitations of out-of-the-box tools) and a stronger theoretical modeling, the technological dimension remains a defining factor. An unreflective adoption of technology in the shape of tools can compromise the plausibility and the reproducibility of the results produced using these tools. Our paper presents a multi-faceted intervention to the discussion around tools, methods, and the research questions that are answered with them. It presents research perspectives first conceived at the ADHO SIG-DLS workshop Anatomy of tools: A closer look at textual DH methodologies that took place in Utrecht in July 2019. At that event, the authors discussed selected case studies to address tool criticism from several angles. Our goal was to leverage a tool-critical perspective, in order to “take stock, reflect upon and critically comment upon our own practices” within CLS. We identified Textométrie, Stylometry, and Semantic Text Mining as three central types of hands-on CLS. For each of these sub-fields, we asked: What are our tools and methods-in-use? What are the implications of using a tool-oriented perspective as opposed to a methodology-oriented one? How do either relate to research questions and theory? These questions were explored by case-studies on an exemplary basis. The unifying perspective of this paper is an applied tool criticism – a critical inquiry leveraged towards crucial dimensions of CLS practices. Here we re-compose the original oral papers and add entirely new sections to it, to create a useful overview of the issue through a combination of perspectives. While we elaborated the thematic connections between the individual case studies, we hope the interactive spirit of an exemplary exchange remains palpable: individual research perspectives shape the case studies reported for Textométrie, Stylometry and Semantic Text Mining, are complemented by further studies showcasing CLS-specific perspectives on replicability and domain-specific research, and a short section discussing a tool inventory as a practical, community-based incarnation of tool criticism. The article reflects thus a rich array of perspectives on tool criticism, including the complementary perspective of tool defense – arguing that we need tools and methods as a basic common ground on how to carry out fundamental operations of analysis and interpretation within a community
Näkökulmia metaforaan asiantuntijadiskursseissa
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J. Berenike Herrmann & Tony Berber Sardinha (toim.): Metaphor in specialist discourse. Metaphor in Language, Cognition & Communication 4. Amsterdam: John Benjamins 2015. 319 s. ISBN 978-90-272-0208-6
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
‚Einfach klasse!‘ Eine korpuslinguistische Analyse zur Eindeutigkeit von digitalen rezensiven Texten auf Amazon.de und Buechertreff.de
No full textPetzold K, Moskvina A. ‚Einfach klasse!‘ Eine korpuslinguistische Analyse zur Eindeutigkeit von digitalen rezensiven Texten auf Amazon.de und Buechertreff.de. Weder Fail noch Lobgesang: Nichteindeutige Wertung von Literatur im digitalen Raum. Sonderband der Zeitschrift für digitale Geisteswissenschaften. Hg. von Berenike Herrmann und Maria Kraxenberger. 2024
Payback and punishment: Metaphors in Scottish penal policy
No full textThis paper presents an analysis of metaphors for punishment in policy discourse in Scotland, which has embarked on an ambitious programme of penal reform. We analysed a corpus consisting of the four key policy documents of the penal reform programme. Our objectives were firstly, to identify the most frequently used lexical metaphors and metonyms in the corpus, and then to analyse the entailments that these metaphors have, and how they frame the topics of the texts. We found widespread use of metaphors from the domain of management, providing support for the thesis that the discourse of management frames public services in the UK. We then specifically investigated the use of payback because of its salience in current penal philosophy, with the objective of finding out how frequently it is used, and whether the theme of reparation frames the texts more widely. Our findings suggest that as a metaphor from the source domain of reparation, it appears to be a ‘one-shot’ metaphor. However, in terms of semantic groupings, it could perhaps be viewed as a metaphor of business and management
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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