Research output per year
Research output per year
Personal profile
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Research interests
I am interested in the quantitative and digital opening of literary history. How literature can be represented as data and metadata, and how language technology resources and machine learning models can be used to generate new insights into literary history.
Primary areas of research
- 19th century Scandinavian literature
- Literary Historiography
- Digital Humanities
- Conceptual History
- NLP
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Annotating and Classifying Direct Speech in Historical Danish and Norwegian Literary Texts
Al-Laith, A. M. A., Conroy, A., Degn, K. N., Bjerring-Hansen, J. & Hershcovich, D., 3 Mar 2025, Joint 25th Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics and 11th Baltic Conference on Human Language Technologies (NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025) : Proceedings of the Conference : March 3-4, 2025. Stymne, S. & Johansson, R. (eds.). University of Tartu Library, p. 1-7Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review
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Dying or Departing? Euphemism Detection for Death Discourse in Historical Texts
Al-Laith, A. M. A., Conroy, A., Bjerring-Hansen, J., Pedersen, B. S., Levisen, C. & Hershcovich, D., 2025, Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics. Rambow, O., Wanner, L., Apidianaki, M., Al-Khalifa, H., Di Eugenio, B. & Schockaert, S. (eds.). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Vol. January. p. 1353–1364 12 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review
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Development and Evaluation of Pre-trained Language Models for Historical Danish and Norwegian Literary Texts
Al-Laith, A., Conroy, A., Bjerring-Hansen, J. & Hershcovich, D., 2024, Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024). Calzolari, N., Kan, M.-Y., Hoste, V., Lenci, A., Sakti, S. & Xue, N. (eds.). European Language Resources Association (ELRA), p. 4811-4819Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review
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Literary Time Travel: Distinguishing Past and Contemporary Worlds in Danish and Norwegian Fiction
Bjerring-Hansen, J., Al-Laith, A. M. A., Rasmussen, S. Ø., Hershcovich, D. & Conroy, A., 2024, Proceedings of the Computational Humanities Research Conference 2024 (CHR 2024). CEUR-WS.org, p. 772-787 16 p. (CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 3834).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review
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Noise, Novels, Numbers: A Framework for Detecting and Categorizing Noise in Danish and Norwegian Literature
Al-Laith, A. M. A., Bjerring-Hansen, J., Hershcovich, D., Parby, J. I., Tangherlini, T. & Conroy, A., 2024, Proceedings of The 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2024). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), p. 3344–3354 11 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review
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Romaner og sprogmodeller: Kvantitative studier af modernitetsprocesser i dansk og norsk litteratur 1870-1899
Conroy, A., 30 Sept 2024, København. 333 p.Research output: Book/Report › Ph.D. thesis
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Sentiment Classification of Historical Danish and Norwegian Literary Texts
Al-Laith, A. M. A., Degn, K. N., Conroy, A., Pedersen, B. S., Bjerring-Hansen, J. & Hershcovich, D., May 2023, Proceedings of the 24th Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics (NoDaLiDa). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), p. 324–334Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review
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Measuring Modernity: Tentative remarks on a digital exploration of the 'modern breakthrough'
Bjerring-Hansen, J. & Conroy, A., 7 May 2021.Research output: Contribution to conference › Conference abstract for conference › Research › peer-review
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Gæsteforelæsning, UC Berkeley: "Conceptualizing Modernity"
Conroy, A. (Other)
17 Nov 2022Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
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Skæbnens modernitet?
Conroy, A. (Other)
6 Sept 2022Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
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MeMo Workshop: Tracking the not-mentioned-but-somehow-present
Bjerring-Hansen, J. (Organizer), Conroy, A. (Organizer), Tangherlini, T. (Organizer) & Leonard, P. (Organizer)
27 Jun 2022 → 29 Jun 2022Activity: Participating in an event - types › Organisation of and participation in conference
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Quantifying Conceptual History?
Conroy, A. (Other)
18 Mar 2022Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
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MeMo Workshop: Basic analysis and quantification
Bjerring-Hansen, J. (Organizer) & Conroy, A. (Organizer)
23 Aug 2021 → 24 Aug 2021Activity: Participating in an event - types › Organisation of and participation in conference
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When Denmark Became Modern
Bjerring-Hansen, J. (Panel member) & Conroy, A. (Panel member)
5 Jun 2021Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution