Creating NovaCor+, a Corpus of Contemporary German Novels

2026/05/22 by Luise Prager · 1 voice
Computer Science · Arts and Humanities · #Authorship Attribution and Profiling #Text Readability and Simplification #Digital Humanities and Scholarship

paper · doi:10.5281/zenodo.20343985

Abstract

The poster presents an approach to the creation of a corpus of contemporaryliterature, addresses the technical challenges arising from heterogeneous file formats,and outlines a stylometric perspective on data evaluation at the Annual Conference of Computational Literary Studies 2026 in Potsdam (https://jcls.io/site/ccls2026/).

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• The 3rd place 🥉 in the #CCLS2026 Poster Award is a tie between Louise Prager (Creating NovaCor+, a Corpus of Contemporary German Novels: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...) and the team of researchers led by Sv [bsky, 6 points, 0 comments]

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