Project T01
in Phase 2
Transforming text across media
PI(s): Prof. Dr. Manfred Stede & Prof. Dr. Tatjana Scheffler
In collaboration with two language-technology companies, the project addresses the task of tailoring text to the conventions and requirements of different target media, in particular written blogs and microblogs (Twitter), and spoken podcasts. The focus is on the discourse-level phenomena of coreference, particle use, and coherence relations. Variation on these dimensions will be correlated with human processing ease in reading/listening experiments. The findings will then be translated into models and algorithms for identifying text passages that should be adapted, and experiments with automatically performing such adaptations will be carried out.
Papers
| Author(s) | Title | Year | Published in | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scheffler, T., Kern, L.-A., & Seemann, H. J. | The medium is not the message: Individual level register variation in blogs vs. tweets. | 2022 | Register Studies, 4(2), 171-201. | DOI: 10.1075/rs.22009.sch | |
| Seemann, H. J., & Scheffler, T. | Differentiating Social Media Texts via Clustering. | 2022 | In F. Karsdorp, A. Lassche, & K. Nielbo (Eds.), Proceedings of the Computational Humanities Research Conference 2022 (pp. 177-188). Antwerp, Belgium. | |
| Shahmohammadi, S., Seemann, H. J., Stede, M., & Scheffler, T. | Encoding discourse structure: comparison of RST and QUD. | 2023 | In M. Strube, C. Braud, C. Hardmeier, J. J. Li, S. Loáiciga, & A. Zeldes (Eds.), Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Discourse (CODI 2023), (pp. 89–98), Toronto, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics. * | DOI: 10.18653/v1/2023.codi-1.11 | |
| Shahmohammadi, S., & Stede, M. | Discourse Parsing for German with new RST Corpora. | 2024 | Proceedings of the 20th Conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS 2024), pp. 65-74. Vienna, Austria: Association for Computational Linguistics. | |
| Seemann, H. J., Shahmohammadi, S., Stede, M., & Scheffler, T. | Spoken vs. Written Computer-Mediated Communiation. | 2024 | Proceedings of the 11th Conference on CMC and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities (CMC 2024), pp. 70-74. Université Côte d'Azur, Nice, France. | |
| Seemann, H. J., Shahmohammadi, S., Stede, M., & Scheffler, T. | Discourse-Level Features in Spoken and Written Communication. | 2024 | Proceedings of the 20th Conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS 2024), pp. 292–302. Vienna, Austria: Association for Computational Linguistics. | |
| Seemann, H. | Modalpartikel | 2024 | In D. Gutzmann, K. Turgay, & T. E. Zimmermann (Eds.), Semantik und Pragmatik. Wörterbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft (WSK) Online. Berlin: De Gruyter. | |
| Seemann, H., & Scheffler, T. | German Modal Particles as Discourse Signals. | 2025 | Dialogue & Discourse, 16(1), 1-30. | DOI: 10.5210/dad.2025.101 | |
| Scheffler, T., & Seemann, H. | Review: Remus Gergel, Ingo Reich & Augustin Speyer (eds.)(2022): Particles in German, English, and Beyond. Amsterdam/Phil- adelphia: John Benjamins. | 2025 | Linguistische Berichte, 281, 111-118. | DOI: 10.46771/9783967699456_7 | |
| Scheffler, T. | Social media corpora for analyzing linguistic variation. | 2025 | In L. Cotgrove, L. Herzberg, & H. Lüngen (Eds.), Exploring digitally-mediated communication with corpora: Methods, analyses, and corpus construction (pp. 329-348). De Gruyter. | DOI: 10.1515/9783111434018-014 | |
| Hewett, F., & Stede, M. | Disagreements in analyses of rhetorical text structure: A new dataset and first analyses. | 2025 | In S. Peng & I. Rehbein (Eds.), Proceedings of the 19th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW-XIX-2025) (pp. 35–47). Association for Computational Linguistics. | DOI: 10.18653/v1/2025.law-1.3 | |
| Scheffler, T., Kern, L.-A., & Seemann, H. | Individuelle linguistische Variabilität in sozialen Medien. Ein multimediales Korpus. | 2023 | n M. Kupietz & T. Schmidt (Eds.), Neue Entwicklungen in der Korpuslandschaft der Germanistik. Beiträge zur IDS-Methodenmesse 2022 (pp. 87-97). Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag. | DOI: 10.24053/9783823396024 | |
| Marchal, M., Hewett, F., Scholman, M. C. J., Shahmohammadi, S., Stede, M., & Demberg, V. | The facilitating effect of connectives across relations and languages. | 2025 | Frontiers in Language Sciences, 4, 1721510. | DOI: 10.3389/flang.2025.1721510 |