CRC 1646

In this interdisciplinary project falling between linguistics and literary studies, we will investigate the extent to which linguistic creativity can be measured across literary and non-literary genres with quantitative, corpus-based methods. We ask how the originality and success of linguistic signs vary depending on textual cues and are mediated by a spectrum of popular and artistic genre contexts such as travel blogs, popular fiction and literary novels. Focusing on the ubiquitous thematic domain of descriptions of spatial entities across all genres, we aim to develop data-driven metrics and models that automatically identify creative signs at sentence, paragraph and text level.

Scientific events

• November 8, 2025 | Contribution "Autor: ChatGPT?" at Wissenswerkstadt Bielefeld | Report
• October 22, 2025 | Contribution "Game Night with AI" at Wissenswerkstadt Bielefeld | Report
• September - November 2025 | Contribution at the public conference "GENIALE 2025" at Wissenswerkstadt Bielefeld | Report
• April 30, 2025 | Project-internal workshop with the CRCs 1646, 1288 and 1474 | Report

Conference attendences

• May 11-16, 2026 | Conference attendance LREC 2026 in Palma, Mallorca (Spain)
• March 24-29, 2026 | Conference attendance "European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics" (EACL2026)
• February 23-27, 2026 | Conference attendance „Digital Humanities in German-speaking countries“: „Not only text, not only data“ at Vienna University | Report
• September 8-11, 2025 | Summer school attendance „Large Language Models for Digital Humanities Research“ at Cologne University | Report
• July 27 - August 1, 2025 | Conference attendance "Association for Computational Linguistics" (ACL 2025) in Vienna