Last week, the heureCLÉA team held a project meeting in Heidelberg in order to discuss first machine learning results and to plan further steps.   Program   Wednesday, 4 December 2013   9.30 a.m. – 1 p.m.: presentation of the UIMA pipeline that feeds automated HeidelTime annotations back to CATMA evaluation of the collaborative manual annotation of tenses in the […]

At this year’s Herrenhauser Conference on “(Digital) Humanities Revisited – Challenges and Opportunities in the Digital Age” (December 5 – 7, 2013), we will present a poster on “Annotating Temporal Phenomena in Literary Text in the Context of the heureCLÉA Project”. Stay tuned! (Special Thanks to the VolkswagenStiftung for the Traval Grant!) Selection of Tweets about HeidelTime at #dighum1213 For historians, […]

Texts are often the primary objects of interest in literary studies and in the Humanities in general. Though it getting increasingly common to use computational methods for analyzing texts, methods of visualization could not yet prevail. This issue is subject to a workshop that is held within the frameworks of the TransCoop project DCI – The Digital Commons Initiative which […]

The HeidelTime team of the Heidelberg University participated in the TempEval-3 challenge of the SemEval 2013 workshop. For this, we tuned HeidelTime’s English resources and developed new Spanish resources. For both languages, HeidelTime achieved the best results for the temporal tagging task (extraction + normalization) of all participants. In the context of TempEval-3, we released a new version of HeidelTime […]

CATMA and heureCLÉA were introduced at the workshop “Easy Tools for Difficult Texts” this month in the Hague. The workshop was part of the COST action “Medieval Europe – Medieval Cultures and Technological Resources“ and focused on the possibilities the eHumanities offer for medieval studies. Since CATMA allows free creation of analytic categories, it may support users in the field […]

The paper "Towards a digital heuristic: the heureCLÉA project" was presented by Jan Christoph Meister at the 2013 project meeting of the German Research Foundation (DFG) funded Empirikom-Network, organized by Prof. Jannis Androutsopoulous of Hamburg University at 25-26 April 2013 at the historical Aby Warburg House. Further information on Empirikom ("Empirische Erforschung internetbasierter Kommunikation" = "Empirical Research into Internet based […]

As one of 24 recently launched projects in the field of eHumanities, heureCLÉA was invited to a KickOff Conference in Leipzig by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). Within the framework of the conference the participants got the chance to present their projects to scholars and sponsors. heureCLÉA achieved great response – not least due to the already […]

heureCLÉA was presented to international delegates at the 3rd international conference of the ENN (European Narratology Network) which is hosted at the Cité Universitaire in Paris, France from 28 to 30th March 2013. In his keynote lecture titled “Towards a Computational Narratology” Jan Christoph Meister introduced the conceptual framework of current approaches in computational narratology, discussing the relation between hermeneutically […]

At the university of Hamburg, CATMA is currently used in seminars to support the analysis of literary texts.