3 papers
cs.CL2020
Mapping Topic Evolution Across Poetic Traditions
Petr Plechac, Thomas N. Haider
Poetic traditions across languages evolved differently, but we find that certain semantic topics occur in several of them, albeit sometimes with temporal delay, or with diverging t…
cs.CL2019
Semantic Change and Emerging Tropes In a Large Corpus of New High German Poetry
Thomas Haider, Steffen Eger
Due to its semantic succinctness and novelty of expression, poetry is a great test bed for semantic change analysis. However, so far there is a scarcity of large diachronic corpora…
cs.CL2019
Diachronic Topics in New High German Poetry
Thomas N. Haider
Statistical topic models are increasingly and popularly used by Digital Humanities scholars to perform distant reading tasks on literary data. It allows us to estimate what people…