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Modeling and Measuring Short Text Similarities. On the Multi-Dimensional Differences between German Poetry of Realism and Modernism

Ehrmanntraut, Anton ; Hagen, Thora ; Jannidis, Fotis ; Konle, Leonard ; Kröncke, Merten ; Winko, Simone (2023)
Modeling and Measuring Short Text Similarities. On the Multi-Dimensional Differences between German Poetry of Realism and Modernism.
In: Journal of Computational Literary Studies, 2022, 1 (1)
doi: 10.26083/tuprints-00023259
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Item Type: Article
Type of entry: Secondary publication
Title: Modeling and Measuring Short Text Similarities. On the Multi-Dimensional Differences between German Poetry of Realism and Modernism
Language: English
Date: 21 February 2023
Place of Publication: Darmstadt
Year of primary publication: 2022
Journal or Publication Title: Journal of Computational Literary Studies
Volume of the journal: 1
Issue Number: 1
Collation: 30 Seiten
DOI: 10.26083/tuprints-00023259
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Origin: Secondary publication from TUjournals
Abstract:

This study contributes to the ongoing discussion on how to operationalize text similarity for the purposes of computational literary studies by defining, justifying theoretically and employing a multi-dimensional text model. Additionally, we evaluate a set of strategies to implement this model for very short texts like poetry using a range of methods from weighted sparse vectors up to very recent neural sentence embeddings based on annotations of emotions, genre and similarity. And finally, we show the relevance of using such a complex text model by applying the best method to a research question about the development of early modernism in German poetry. While we can confirm some important hypotheses from literary studies, we are also able to differentiate or relativize others. In particular, our findings do not support the widely held thesis that the change from realism to modernism was a revolutionary ‘rupture’.

Uncontrolled Keywords: short text, similarity, poetry, modernism, realism
Status: Publisher's Version
URN: urn:nbn:de:tuda-tuprints-232599
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Urspr. Konferenzveröffentlichung/Originally conference publication: 1st Annual Conference of Computational Literary Studies, 01.-02.06.2022, Darmstadt, Germany

Classification DDC: 800 Literature > 800 Literature, rhetoric and criticism
Divisions: 02 Department of History and Social Science > Institut für Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Digital Philology – Modern German Literary Studies
Date Deposited: 21 Feb 2023 10:28
Last Modified: 22 Jul 2024 08:12
URI: https://tuprints.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/id/eprint/23259
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