Axel Pichler
axelpichler@fedihum.org
<p>Assistant Professor of Modern German Literature/Digital Literary Studies at the University of Vienna. Leading research interests in the <a href="https://fedihum.org/tags/DigitalHumanities" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DigitalHumanities</span></a> are the interdisciplinary development and reflection of methods, theory and practice of the <a href="https://fedihum.org/tags/operationalization" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>operationalization</span></a> of concepts from literary studies for computer-aided text analysis as well as the exploration of the potentials and dangers of the use of Large Language Models (#LLMs) in the DH.</p>
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The Austrian government is reportedly planning to cut university budgets by 14%: https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000321340/universitaeten-ruesten-sich-fuer-einschnitte-beim-budget?ref=seite1_zonekur This would be a severe blow to research, teaching, students, and Austria’s future as a knowledge-based society. Universities need stable funding — not austerity measures that weaken education and innovation.
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📢 Prae-Doc-Stelle (30h, 3 Jahre) am Institut für Germanistik der Uni Wien im FWF-Projekt »Mind the Gap: Theory-driven Operationalization in Computational Literary Studies«. Thema: literaturwiss. Konzepte für computergestützte Verfahren messbar machen – Fallbeispiel dt. Kurzgeschichte nach 1945. Diss. erwünscht, keine Lehre. 📅 Frist: 1.9.2026 📍 Wien, ab 15.10.2026 👇 https://networks.h-net.org/group/discussions/20157201/job-prae-doc-stelle-30h-3-jahre-fwf-projekt-mind-gap-universitat-wien #Di...
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🎉 Excited to share our (@janispagel, @nilsreiter) latest work at LaTeCH-CLfL 2025: Prompt Engineering in Computational Literary Studies – Promise vs. Practice We test how reliably LLMs generate sequence labels in a CLS context: 🔁 same prompts, different splits 🧠 prompt rewording 📎 performance-boosting phrases Findings: results vary by split &amp; wording; fixed phrases rarely help. 📄 https://aclanthology.org/2025.latechclfl-1.5/ #PromptEngineering #CLS #LLM
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📢 Workshop: re-late – re-use – re-vise Join us for a workshop on how Large Language Models can support variant detection and intertextuality studies in the Digital Humanities. We will explore practical use cases, discuss methodological implications, and try out LLM-based approaches. When? Thursday, 4 December 2025, 9:00–16:45 Where? Jura-Soyfer-Saal, Hofburg, Batthyanystiege, 1010 Vienna 🔗 Info &amp; program: https://evsl.univie.ac.at/digital-philology/recent-advances-in-digital-philology/
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📚 Stellenausschreibung mit #DigitalHumanities-Schwerpunkt an der Fachbibliothek Germanistik &amp; Skandinavistik der Uni Wien (Vollzeit, ab 01.04.2026). Die Stelle umfasst einen eigenen DH-Support-Bereich – Beratung zu DH-Workflows, Organisation von Workshops, Aufbereitung von DH-Ressourcen &amp; First-Level-Anlaufstelle für DH-Anliegen. Erfahrung mit #Transkribus erwünscht, #Python-Kenntnisse von Vorteil. Bewerbungsfrist: 23.03.2026 👉 https://jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Mitarbeiterin-an-der-...
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📄 Our new paper – with Martin Endres &amp; @nilsreiter – is now published in the Journal of Computational Literary Studies! We present a workflow to evaluate LLM-generated poem interpretations using standards and argumentative structures from literary studies, showing strengths in descriptive analysis and limitations in producing acceptable rules of inferences. 👉 https://jcls.io/article/id/4312/ #DigitalHumanities #ComputationalLiteraryStudies #LLMs