current projects

I'm always curious to make new connections and collaborations. Feel free to drop me a line. My main interests at the moment are:

Change in literary history

My phD project aims to model change in literary language in the period 1750-1930 in Danish literature.

Sentiment analysis for literary texts

Model/system-comparisons, for example here and looking features of literary texts that may be especially hard for models, for example: a more concrete language may affect readers but not be picked up by SA tools. Right now, I'm working on SA for Danish literary texts (fairytales and hymns), and how sentiment is evoked implicitly in fiction through imagery and objective correlative type strategies.

Literary trans- and multilingualism

computational methods for studying cross-lingual differences in literary style across authors' L1 and L2. Subject of my master's thesis

  • it is possible that L2 authors really are more creative with language as, among others, doris sommer and stephen kellman argue – but how can we operationalize "being creative with language"?

    • Reader appreciation & its connection to textual features

    research in the Fabula-NET project: computational methods for estimating reader appreciation, extrinsic and intrinsic success. read our blog here

  • using readability indices on literary texts - useful? (see some experiments here)
  • measuring "literary quality": proxies and perspectives.
  • operationalizing literary stylistic difficulty - most recently experimenting with Language Model perplexity

    • Flesch Readability through time in the 9,000 Novel corpus. A higher score means a "less difficult" text.