Coordination Funds

• Applicant: Professor Dr. Fotis Jannidis
• Subject Area: German Literary and Cultural Studies (Modern German Literature)
• Term: since 2019
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 424212012

Computational Literary Studies (CLS) are growing, interdisciplinaryresearch field between computational linguistics, computer science andliterary studies in the process of establishing itself as a genuineresearch community. In the past two years, the priority programmeComputational Literary Studies has funded and coordinated 10 individualresearch projects in Germany and Switzerland. The central coordinationof the programme has coordinated activity among the individual projects,organised the internal and external communication of the programme andprovided logistic support. As a result, the programme has establisheditself as a central node in the network of CLS researchers, its researchis highly visible on the international level. Within the programme,research projects were organised in working groups on "Annotations","Wordembeddings", "Sentiment Analysis", "Drama" and "Text Similarity"that cooperate on the methodological level by exchanging tools and dataand establishing common practices. Working groups and programme meetingswere open to the general, interested public to encourage interactionwith the wider CLS community. Organising these events, identifyingpotential areas of cooperation for the initiation of working groups andintegrating external researchers as well as representative of otherorganisations into the activities was a central task of the coordinationproject. Internally, a large survey has been conducted to evaluate theprojects' strategies and requirements in terms of tool use, datamanagement and long-term archiving, which allowed the coordinationproject to consult and support the research projects regarding theirresearch data management. In response to the specific requirements,especially in the context of cooperating in the working groups, aprogramme-wide gitlab instance was provided.In the second funding period, the central coordination will continueproviding the services and coordinating activities that were establishedduring the first funding period, maintaining and extending contact toexternal researchers and organisations and organising programme events.As an additional task, the programme will develop an online handbook ofcomputational literary studies. This handbook will contain contributionsfrom leading experts on the important topics of the field and provide astate-of-the-art reference work for both students and researchers new toCLS.

• DFG Programme: Priority Programmes
• Subproject of: SPP 2207: Computational Literary Studies