What is a scene in a novel? And how do we teach computers to detect them? (SPOILER: no, tossing it into the latest GPT does NOT solve it!) A deep & thoughtful study of ✂️scene segmentation✂️ in US romance novels by @SvenjaGuhr, Huijun Mao, Fengyi Lin, Alexander Sherman, and Mark Algee-Hewitt:
https://github.com/literarylab/scene_segmentation
A great combo of theoretical grounding and extensive practical testing!
I think what we urgently need to teach, as part of our programming courses, is things like unit tests. Students need to know how to make sure that the generated code they integrate into their scripts, or entire scripts they use, actually and reliably perform the steps that they intended them to perform.
Insight into the workshop "When Worlds Collide: A Literary Linked Open Data Model Critiqueathon".
Bernhard Oberreither is currently presenting the #MiMoText #ontology as part of the PowerPoint karaoke 🚀
More about MiMoText at https://mimotext.uni-trier.de/english/
💫 We just rolled out a new #DraCor release featuring significant improvements to the API, Frontend, and Schema.
Full update here:
https://weltliteratur.net/dracor-platform-update-2025/
These day DH Potsdam is deep into co-running the Data Literacy Barcamp & Conference here in Potsdam City Centre. Link to the program (de):
https://www.quadriga-dk.de/de/quadriga-jahresveranstaltung-2025/programm (conference)
https://www.quadriga-dk.de/de/barcamp-data-literacy/programm (Barcamp)
And some pics for you 💁
Svenja Guhr
Christof Schöch
TCDH - TrierCenterDH
Daniil Skorinkin
Frank Fischer