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A05: Contextualised metrics of linguistic creativity in literary and non-literary text

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A05: Contextualised metrics of linguistic creativity in literary and non-literary text

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f.l.t.r.: Sina Zarrieß, Omar Abdelmomen Amin Hassan, Emilie Sitter, Berenike Herrmann © Sascha Hermannski

PIs

Prof. Dr. Berenike Herrmann

Prof. Dr. Sina Zarrieß

Scientific Staff

Emilie Sitter (M.A.)

Omar Abdelmomen Amin Hassan (M.Sc.)

Student Assistents

Hannah Bultmann

Karoline Rehage

Florian Steig

Laura Thiessen

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

  • April 30, 2025 | Project-internal workshop with the CRCs 1646, 1288 and 1474 | Report

Conference attendences

Public Events

  • November 8, 2025 | "Autor: ChatGPT?", Contribution at Wissenswerkstadt Bielefeld | Report
  • October 22, 2025 | "KI, ärgere dich nicht!", Contribution "Game Night with AI" at Wissenswerkstadt Bielefeld | Report
  • October - November 2025 | "Wer hat's geschrieben? Mensch oder Maschine?", Contribution at the public conference "GENIALE 2025" at Wissenswerkstadt Bielefeld | Report

Publications

  • Sitter, E., Rehage, K., & Herrmann, B. (2026). Mehr Text! Mehr Daten! Das Kreativitätsduell als transmodales Game with a Purpose zur Datenerhebung für die textwissenschaftliche Kreativitätsforschung. Poster presented at DHd 2026 "Not only Text, not only Data" (DHd2026), Vienna, Austria. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18999670

  • Sitter, E., Wu, Y., Zarrieß, S., & Herrmann, B. (2025). Towards Measuring Linguistic Creativity in Literary and Non-literary Text. First results and insights. Presented at the DHd 2025 Under Construction (DHd2025), Bielefeld. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14945661

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