Botond Szemes
@botondszemes.bsky.social
Computational Literary Studies, Media and Culture Studies, Stylometry @Budapest, @Tartu, DigiTS group
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Our Researcher in Digital Humanities, @botondszemes.bsky.social spoke about Central European literary memory as reflected in Wikipedia and the possible use of LLMs in cleaning Wikidata query results on a workshop Vienna on January 23rd, focusing on Wikipedia, Wikidata, and literary studies.
January 28, 2026 at 1:22 PM
Our Researcher in Digital Humanities, @botondszemes.bsky.social spoke about Central European literary memory as reflected in Wikipedia and the possible use of LLMs in cleaning Wikidata query results on a workshop Vienna on January 23rd, focusing on Wikipedia, Wikidata, and literary studies.
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My colleagues and I are working on NeoLatDraCor within the #DraCor infrastructure. Starting in January, we will have monthly co-working encoding sessions to further grow this corpus of #NeoLatin drama. If you would like to join, feel free to contact us.
github.com/dracor-org/n...
#DH
github.com/dracor-org/n...
#DH
GitHub - dracor-org/neolatdracor: Neo-Latin Drama Corpus
Neo-Latin Drama Corpus. Contribute to dracor-org/neolatdracor development by creating an account on GitHub.
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January 19, 2026 at 10:03 AM
My colleagues and I are working on NeoLatDraCor within the #DraCor infrastructure. Starting in January, we will have monthly co-working encoding sessions to further grow this corpus of #NeoLatin drama. If you would like to join, feel free to contact us.
github.com/dracor-org/n...
#DH
github.com/dracor-org/n...
#DH
A bit eclectic, but a rich collection on Cultural Evolution: Language and Literature in the Hungarian journal Helikon, which focuses on contemporary developments. It's in Hungarian, but it has an English table of contents.
January 14, 2026 at 7:44 AM
A bit eclectic, but a rich collection on Cultural Evolution: Language and Literature in the Hungarian journal Helikon, which focuses on contemporary developments. It's in Hungarian, but it has an English table of contents.
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CFP: EADH Conference 2026 – “Linking Europe: Digital Humanities Without Borders”
#CfP: EADH Conference 2026 – “Linking Europe: Digital Humanities Without Borders” | EADH - The European Association for Digital Humanities
The EADH 2026 conference will take place from 15 to 19 September 2026 at Jagiellonian University in Kraków (Poland), and is co-organized by the Digital Humanities Lab of the Jagiellonian University and the Institute of Polish Language of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
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December 24, 2025 at 5:33 PM
CFP: EADH Conference 2026 – “Linking Europe: Digital Humanities Without Borders”
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The relative usages of "[adjective] reading" in Anglophone literary studies journals, 1920-2020. Made for my "Prac Crit" course next term, "[Adjective] Reading". Interactive version here: public.tableau.com/views/Adject...
![Line graph showing the history of different types of '[adjective] reading' in Anglophone literary studies from 1920-2020. The x-axis represents publication decades, while the y-axis shows the percent of '[adjective] reading' instances in literary studies journals as a 9-decade moving average. Multiple colored lines track various reading methodologies over time. 'Close reading' shows the most dramatic rise, peaking around 2010 at approximately 18% (33 times its 1920s usage). 'Original reading' dominated the 1920s at 7.6% but declined to 0.5% by the 2010s. Other notable methodologies include 'careful reading' (peaked 1960s), 'critical reading' (peaked 1980s), 'wide reading' (1920s), 'correct reading' (1930s), 'new reading' (1950s), 'feminist reading' (1990s), 'textual reading' (2000s), 'distant reading' (2010s), and 'nuanced reading' (2010s). Each labeled point includes the decade of peak usage, the percentage at peak, and the ratio compared to its lowest-usage decade. Data sourced from JSTOR across seven leading literary studies journals including PMLA, Critical Inquiry, New Literary History, ELH, Modern Language Review, Review of English Studies, and Modern Philology.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:llsfba2zryavs4uunglknwie/bafkreicyi6bsqxkrmjstwbyxfvis33j2wxatye2t2dh5fva5pk46xw6n7y@jpeg)
December 17, 2025 at 3:59 PM
The relative usages of "[adjective] reading" in Anglophone literary studies journals, 1920-2020. Made for my "Prac Crit" course next term, "[Adjective] Reading". Interactive version here: public.tableau.com/views/Adject...
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I got wonderful news: I was granted a position of Max Planck independent group leader at the MPI for Empirical Aesthetics ⬇️ (@ae.mpg.de) in Frankfurt, which I'll join in early 2026. It's a huge honor: being trusted with academic freedom offered by MPG. My group will study the evolution of arts. 1/3
December 18, 2025 at 2:15 PM
I got wonderful news: I was granted a position of Max Planck independent group leader at the MPI for Empirical Aesthetics ⬇️ (@ae.mpg.de) in Frankfurt, which I'll join in early 2026. It's a huge honor: being trusted with academic freedom offered by MPG. My group will study the evolution of arts. 1/3
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DigiTS has been selected as the Project of the Year 2025 by the University of Tartu Faculty of Arts and Humanities! 🎉 Thank you for the recognition- it’s wonderful to see our impact reaching beyond our own Institute of Estonian and General Linguistics.
December 15, 2025 at 12:06 PM
DigiTS has been selected as the Project of the Year 2025 by the University of Tartu Faculty of Arts and Humanities! 🎉 Thank you for the recognition- it’s wonderful to see our impact reaching beyond our own Institute of Estonian and General Linguistics.
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A few early morning campus impressions at #CHR2025...
December 12, 2025 at 12:51 PM
A few early morning campus impressions at #CHR2025...
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#CHR2025 is off to a pretty great start with some very interesting findings by Federica Bologna et al.
anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0...
anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0...
December 10, 2025 at 11:21 AM
#CHR2025 is off to a pretty great start with some very interesting findings by Federica Bologna et al.
anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0...
anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0...
Two of the lightning talks in #CHR2025
1. Spatial imagination in European poetry - presentation by @tonyamart.bsky.social and @artjomshl.bsky.social
2. Network of CEE based on "memory scores" derived from number of Wikipedia articles
1. Spatial imagination in European poetry - presentation by @tonyamart.bsky.social and @artjomshl.bsky.social
2. Network of CEE based on "memory scores" derived from number of Wikipedia articles
December 11, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Two of the lightning talks in #CHR2025
1. Spatial imagination in European poetry - presentation by @tonyamart.bsky.social and @artjomshl.bsky.social
2. Network of CEE based on "memory scores" derived from number of Wikipedia articles
1. Spatial imagination in European poetry - presentation by @tonyamart.bsky.social and @artjomshl.bsky.social
2. Network of CEE based on "memory scores" derived from number of Wikipedia articles
Useful paper on (un)certainties in community detection in networks: Cluster Ambiguity in Networks as Substantive Knowledge in #CHR2025
Cluster Ambiguity in Networks as Substantive Knowledge
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December 10, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Useful paper on (un)certainties in community detection in networks: Cluster Ambiguity in Networks as Substantive Knowledge in #CHR2025
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Very low dependency management for support repos in CHR papers!
Also accompanying code was available in only ~40% of papers.
Insightful talk reflecting on our community practices. #chr25
Also accompanying code was available in only ~40% of papers.
Insightful talk reflecting on our community practices. #chr25
December 10, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Very low dependency management for support repos in CHR papers!
Also accompanying code was available in only ~40% of papers.
Insightful talk reflecting on our community practices. #chr25
Also accompanying code was available in only ~40% of papers.
Insightful talk reflecting on our community practices. #chr25
Last week at WoLaLa 2025 on LLMs in practice: wolala.nytud.hu
November 27, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Last week at WoLaLa 2025 on LLMs in practice: wolala.nytud.hu
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Today we had our first lab meeting @digitsut.bsky.social with @botondszemes.bsky.social discussing his most recent working paper! 📜 🤖
November 18, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Today we had our first lab meeting @digitsut.bsky.social with @botondszemes.bsky.social discussing his most recent working paper! 📜 🤖
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📢 The #CHR2025 proceedings are out!
97 papers, ~1600 pages of computational humanities 🔥 Now published via the new Anthology of Computers and the Humanities, with DOIs for every paper.
🔗 anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0...
And don’t forget: registration closes tomorrow (20 Nov)!
97 papers, ~1600 pages of computational humanities 🔥 Now published via the new Anthology of Computers and the Humanities, with DOIs for every paper.
🔗 anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0...
And don’t forget: registration closes tomorrow (20 Nov)!
Edited by Taylor Arnold, Margherita Fantoli, and Ruben Ros
anthology.ach.org
November 19, 2025 at 12:53 PM
📢 The #CHR2025 proceedings are out!
97 papers, ~1600 pages of computational humanities 🔥 Now published via the new Anthology of Computers and the Humanities, with DOIs for every paper.
🔗 anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0...
And don’t forget: registration closes tomorrow (20 Nov)!
97 papers, ~1600 pages of computational humanities 🔥 Now published via the new Anthology of Computers and the Humanities, with DOIs for every paper.
🔗 anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0...
And don’t forget: registration closes tomorrow (20 Nov)!
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🗓️ The #CHR2025 programme is online! Browse what’s on the menu here: 2025.computational-humanities-research.org/programme/
Proceedings are coming soon as well. Don’t forget: registration closes on 20 November! #computationalhumanitiesresearch
Proceedings are coming soon as well. Don’t forget: registration closes on 20 November! #computationalhumanitiesresearch
November 14, 2025 at 4:29 PM
🗓️ The #CHR2025 programme is online! Browse what’s on the menu here: 2025.computational-humanities-research.org/programme/
Proceedings are coming soon as well. Don’t forget: registration closes on 20 November! #computationalhumanitiesresearch
Proceedings are coming soon as well. Don’t forget: registration closes on 20 November! #computationalhumanitiesresearch
Today in Bratislava on stylometric analysis of Hungarian novels
November 12, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Today in Bratislava on stylometric analysis of Hungarian novels
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On Oct 1, we were joined by Botond Szemes (PhD in Literary Studies). His research explores computational approaches to literature, including stylometry, quantitative drama analysis and network theory, as well as the role of statistical methods and data visualization in knowledge production. Welcome!
October 15, 2025 at 6:55 AM
On Oct 1, we were joined by Botond Szemes (PhD in Literary Studies). His research explores computational approaches to literature, including stylometry, quantitative drama analysis and network theory, as well as the role of statistical methods and data visualization in knowledge production. Welcome!
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On Oct 9-10, a conference on Data-Driven Approaches to Linguistics is taking place in Tartu! Today, J. Wilbur is presenting his recent work on Pite Sámi and 3 of our new people- S. Kriuchkova, B. Szemes and B. Bhattacharyya are presenting their 📈 research posters. More info at medal.ut.ee! Welcome!
October 10, 2025 at 7:21 AM
On Oct 9-10, a conference on Data-Driven Approaches to Linguistics is taking place in Tartu! Today, J. Wilbur is presenting his recent work on Pite Sámi and 3 of our new people- S. Kriuchkova, B. Szemes and B. Bhattacharyya are presenting their 📈 research posters. More info at medal.ut.ee! Welcome!
September 1, 2025 at 4:06 PM
New article with my good friend, Gergő Melhardt about thematic and stylistic trends in Hungarian fiction of the last 40 years.
What comes after Central Europe? Miklós Mészöly’s late prose and contemporary Hungarian literature - Neohelicon
The paper approaches the last 40–50 years of Hungarian prose from a politico-historical and narratological point of view, combining (1) readings of pieces of fiction, (2) discussing long processes in ...
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August 14, 2025 at 8:44 PM
New article with my good friend, Gergő Melhardt about thematic and stylistic trends in Hungarian fiction of the last 40 years.
Dark days in Hungarian humanities and social sciences
Orbán dismantles Hungary’s only basic research network
1. The government of Hungary has deprived the independent Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA) of its research network and placed it under governmental control in 2019 without justification. …
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July 9, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Dark days in Hungarian humanities and social sciences
Group photo at the 'Tragic Form Across Europe and Beyond' conference in Sibiu
July 5, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Group photo at the 'Tragic Form Across Europe and Beyond' conference in Sibiu