Botond Szemes
@botondszemes.bsky.social
Computational Literary Studies, Media and Culture Studies, Stylometry @Budapest, Institute for Literary Studies
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
A paper on the temporality of structural measures in drama has been published: zfdg.de/2025_007
We measure:
- The impact of time of creation in generic classification
- Cumulative changes in some network metrics as the plot unfolds
We measure:
- The impact of time of creation in generic classification
- Cumulative changes in some network metrics as the plot unfolds
Temporal Aspects of Structural Differences in Dramatic Genre | ZfdG - Zeitschrift für digitale Geisteswissenschaften
Computational drama analysis often treats plays as static entities. This paper introduces the dimension of temporality in two key ways. First, it explores the impact of a play’s creation time on its c...
zfdg.de
June 6, 2025 at 6:35 AM
A paper on the temporality of structural measures in drama has been published: zfdg.de/2025_007
We measure:
- The impact of time of creation in generic classification
- Cumulative changes in some network metrics as the plot unfolds
We measure:
- The impact of time of creation in generic classification
- Cumulative changes in some network metrics as the plot unfolds
Shenzen, China. "Ways of Discussing Literature in the 2020s" conference.
May 11, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Shenzen, China. "Ways of Discussing Literature in the 2020s" conference.
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How are humans able to make sense of time? Not with special biology but with “time tools”—ideas, practices, and artifacts that render time more concrete.
My new paper explores this vast, varied toolkit—one that makes use of knots, nuts, hands, flowers, mountains, shadows, and much more.
(link 👇)
My new paper explores this vast, varied toolkit—one that makes use of knots, nuts, hands, flowers, mountains, shadows, and much more.
(link 👇)
May 2, 2025 at 4:51 PM
How are humans able to make sense of time? Not with special biology but with “time tools”—ideas, practices, and artifacts that render time more concrete.
My new paper explores this vast, varied toolkit—one that makes use of knots, nuts, hands, flowers, mountains, shadows, and much more.
(link 👇)
My new paper explores this vast, varied toolkit—one that makes use of knots, nuts, hands, flowers, mountains, shadows, and much more.
(link 👇)
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Join us for the #DraCor Summit in Berlin, 1–4 September 2025.
summit.dracor.org
From corpus building to latest advances in digital drama analysis.
CfPs open until 6 May 2025. General registration opening in due time.
@temporal-communities.de @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social @dhpotsdam.bsky.social
summit.dracor.org
From corpus building to latest advances in digital drama analysis.
CfPs open until 6 May 2025. General registration opening in due time.
@temporal-communities.de @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social @dhpotsdam.bsky.social
March 18, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Join us for the #DraCor Summit in Berlin, 1–4 September 2025.
summit.dracor.org
From corpus building to latest advances in digital drama analysis.
CfPs open until 6 May 2025. General registration opening in due time.
@temporal-communities.de @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social @dhpotsdam.bsky.social
summit.dracor.org
From corpus building to latest advances in digital drama analysis.
CfPs open until 6 May 2025. General registration opening in due time.
@temporal-communities.de @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social @dhpotsdam.bsky.social
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Change over time is often depicted as a trendline. But what does shape a trendline? Which forces? Our new paper presents a method allowing to “decompose” trendlines into constituent forces. Also, we tackle an old puzzle: Does culture change “one funeral at a time”? 🧵(1/8) doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
February 5, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Change over time is often depicted as a trendline. But what does shape a trendline? Which forces? Our new paper presents a method allowing to “decompose” trendlines into constituent forces. Also, we tackle an old puzzle: Does culture change “one funeral at a time”? 🧵(1/8) doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
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The conference issue's final article of 2024 is by Szemes and Nagy: "Repetition and Innovation in Dramatic Texts. An Attempt to Measure the Degree of Novelty in Character's Speech" (10.48694/jcls.3923). Check it out at: jcls.io/issue/109/in... #JCLS #CCLS24 #Shakespeare @botondszemes.bsky.social
Journal of Computational Literary Studies |
Issue: Issue: 1(3) (2024)
jcls.io
December 19, 2024 at 12:54 PM
The conference issue's final article of 2024 is by Szemes and Nagy: "Repetition and Innovation in Dramatic Texts. An Attempt to Measure the Degree of Novelty in Character's Speech" (10.48694/jcls.3923). Check it out at: jcls.io/issue/109/in... #JCLS #CCLS24 #Shakespeare @botondszemes.bsky.social
Reading material for the holidays: our paper on the innovativeness of character's speech is out in @jcls-io.bsky.social
jcls.io/article/id/3...
jcls.io/article/id/3...
Repetition and Innovation in Dramatic Texts. An Attempt to Measure the Degree of Novelty in Character's Speech
In the following, we examine how innovative dramatic characters are in relation to each other, i.e., whether they tend to repeat the utterances of others or introduce new information to the discourse ...
jcls.io
December 19, 2024 at 12:44 PM
Reading material for the holidays: our paper on the innovativeness of character's speech is out in @jcls-io.bsky.social
jcls.io/article/id/3...
jcls.io/article/id/3...
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Our proceedings are out! 🚨 They include no less than 78 papers that reflect the diverse and innovative research happening within the Computational Humanities. Take a dive here: ceur-ws.org/Vol-3834/
CEUR-WS.org/Vol-3834 - Computational Humanities Research 2024
ceur-ws.org
November 20, 2024 at 9:55 AM
Our proceedings are out! 🚨 They include no less than 78 papers that reflect the diverse and innovative research happening within the Computational Humanities. Take a dive here: ceur-ws.org/Vol-3834/
November 19, 2024 at 5:21 PM
Preparing to present with Kata Dobás at the "Linked Open Data and Literary Studies" conference, Berlin, 19-20 November.
Our title: Wikidata and World Literature: Literary 'Memory' of the Visegrad Countries
Our title: Wikidata and World Literature: Literary 'Memory' of the Visegrad Countries
International Conference | Linked Open Data and Literary Studies
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November 17, 2024 at 1:05 PM
Preparing to present with Kata Dobás at the "Linked Open Data and Literary Studies" conference, Berlin, 19-20 November.
Our title: Wikidata and World Literature: Literary 'Memory' of the Visegrad Countries
Our title: Wikidata and World Literature: Literary 'Memory' of the Visegrad Countries