eTRAP: Electronic Text Reuse Acquisition Project

[First posted in AWOL 4 May 2015, updated 7 November 2017]

eTRAP: Electronic Text Reuse Acquisition Project

eTRAP (electronic Text Reuse Acquisition Project) is an Early Career Research Group funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). The research group, starting on 1st March 2015, was awarded €1.6 million and runs for four years, supporting four full-time researchers and eight student assistants.

As the name suggests, this interdisciplinary team studies the linguistic and literary phenomenon that is text re-use with a particular focus on historical languages. More specifically, we look at how ancient authors copied, alluded to, paraphrased and translated each other as they spread their knowledge in writing. This early career research group seeks to provide a basic understanding of the historical text re-use methodology (it being distinct from plagiarism), and so to study what defines text re-use, why some people re-use information, how text is re-used and how this practice has changed over history. We’ll be investigating text re-use on big data or, in other words, datasets that, owing to their size, cannot be manually processed. The languages we’ll be working with are Ancient Greek, German, English, Italian and Latin. This research touches upon the fields of Natural Language Processing (NLP), Computational Linguistics, Digital Humanities, Classics, History, Theology and Philology but has also ramifications in Text Visualisation, Manuscript Studies and Bioinformatics, to mention but a few.

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Publications

Book Chapters

• Franzini, G., Mahony, S., and Terras, M. (2016) ‘A Catalogue of Digital Editions’, In: Pierazzo, E. and Driscoll, M. J. (eds.) Digital Scholarly Editing: Theories and Practices. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, pp. 161-182.
• Büchler, M., Burns, P. R., Müller, M., Franzini, E., Franzini, G. (2014) ‘Towards a Historical Text Re-use Detection‘, In: Biemann, C. and Mehler, A. (eds.) Text Mining, Theory and Applications of Natural Language Processing. Springer International Publishing Switzerland.
• Büchler, M., Geßner, A., Berti, M. and Eckart, T. (2013) ‘Measuring the Influence of a Work by Text Re-Use’, In: Dunn, S. and Mahony, S. (eds.) Digital Classicist Supplement: Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies. Wiley-Blackwell.

Articles

• Jänicke, S., Franzini, G., Faisal, C., Scheuermann, G. (2016) ‘Visual Text Analysis in Digital Humanities‘, Computer Graphics Forum, 35(2). DOI: 10.1111/cgf.12873
• Moritz, M., Pavlek, B., Franzini, G., Crane, G. (2016) ‘Sentence Shortening via Morpho-Syntactic Annotated Data in Historical Language Learning‘,  ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage, Vol. 9, No. 1, Article 3. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2810040
• Jänicke, S., Geßner, A., Franzini, G., Terras, M., Mahony, S., Scheuermann, G. (2015) ‘TRAViz: A Visualization for Variant Graphs’, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities (Digital Humanities 2014 Special Issue). DOI: 10.1093/llc/fqv049
• Berti, M., Almas, B., Dubin, D., Franzini, G., Stoyanova, S., Crane, G. (2015) ‘The Linked Fragment: TEI and the Encoding of Text Reuses of Lost Authors‘, Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative, 8. DOI : 10.4000/jtei.1218
• Berendt, B., Büchler, M., Rockwell, G. (2015) ‘Is it research or is it spying? – Rethinking ethics in Big Data AI and other fields of knowledge science‘, German Journal on Artificial Intelligence. Springer.

Conference Proceedings

• Paluch, M., Rotari, G., Steding, D., Weß, M., Moritz, M., Büchler, M. (2017) ‘Analysis of part-of-speech tagging of historical German texts’, In: (Proceedings) Digital Access to Textual Cultural Heritage (DATeCH 2017). Göttingen, June 1-2 2017.
• Moritz, M. and Büchler, M. (2017) ‘Ambiguity in Semantically RelatedWord Substitutions: an investigation in historical Bible translations’, In: (Proceedings) The Workshop on Processing Historical Language at NODALIDA 2017. Gothenburg, May 22-24 2017. Linköping University Electronic Press.
• Büchler, M., Eckart, T., Franzini, G., Franzini, E. (2017) ‘Mining and Analysing One Billion Requests to Linguistic Services‘, In: (Proceedings) The IEEE International Conference on Big Data 2016 (IEEE BigData 2016). Washington DC, December 2016, 5-8.
• Moritz, M., Wiederhold,  A., Pavlek, B., Bizzoni, Y., Büchler, M. (2016) ‘Non-Literal Text Reuse in Historical Texts: An Approach to Identify Reuse Transformations and its Application to Bible Reuse’, In: (Proceedings) The 2016 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2016). Austin, November 1-5, 2016, 1849–1859. ©2016 Association for Computational Linguistics .
• Jänicke, S., Franzini, G., Faisal, C., Scheuermann, G. (2015) ‘On Close and Distant Reading in Digital Humanities: A Survey and Future Challenges. A State-of-the-Art (STAR) Report’, In: (Proceedings) EuroVis 2015: The EG/VGTC Conference on Visualization. Cagliari, May 2015, 25-29. DOI: 10.2312/eurovisstar.20151113
• Büchler, M., Franzini, G., Franzini, E., Moritz, M. (2014) ‘Scaling Historical Text Re-Use‘, In: (Proceedings) The IEEE International Conference on Big Data 2014 (IEEE BigData 2014). Washington DC, October 2014, 27-30.

Graded Readers

• Franzini, E. (2016) Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice. With Audio CD. Liberty.
• Franzini, E. (2017) Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre. With Audio CD. Liberty

Reviews

• Franzini, G. (forthcoming 2018) A New Republic of Letters by Jerome McGann (Harvard University Press, 2014). Reviewed in Variants, 14. Revues.
  
• Franzini, G. (2017) Spectateurs (in Italian). Reviewed in RIDE – A review journal for digital editions and resources – Special Issue on Text Collections and Corpora. 6. DOI: 10.18716/ride.a.6.6
• Franzini, G. (2015) Digital Critical Editions by Daniel Apollon, Claire Bélisle, and Philippe Régnier (University of Illinois Press, 2014). Reviewed in Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 30(4). DOI: 10.1093/llc/fqv025

Edited Volumes and Special Issues

• Special Issue of Digital Humanities Quarterly for the Göttingen Dialog in Digital Humanities 2016 seminar series. (In progress)
• Special Issue of the Journal of Data Mining and Digital Humanities on Computer-Aided Processing of Intertextuality in Ancient Languages. (In progress)
• Franzini, G. (2017) ‘Göttingen Dialog in Digital Humanities 2015‘, Digital Humanities Quarterly, 11(2), URL: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/11/2/index.html

Posters

• Moritz, M., Wiederhold, A., Pavlek, B., Bizzoni, Y., Büchler, M. (2016) Non-Literal Text Reuse in Historical Texts: An Approach to Identify Reuse Transformations and its Application to Bible Reuse. EMNLP 2016: Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing 2016. Austin, November 1-5.
• Franzini, G., Andorfer, P., Zaytseva, K. (2016) The Digital Editions Catalogue App: A web application to browse, curate and analyse digital editions. Text Encoding Initiative Conference. Vienna, September 26-30. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.11868.59521
• Franzini, E., Franzini, G., Rotari, G., Pannach, F., Solhdoust, M., Büchler, M. (2016) The Digital Breadcrumbs of Brothers Grimm. Digital Humanities 2016. Kraków, July 11-15. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.1.1290.1365
• Büchler, M., Franzini, E., Franzini, G., Moritz, M. (2015) eTRAP [electronic Text Reuse Acquisition Project]: A research group implementing the A.C.I.D. eHumanities paradigm. DH-Summit. Berlin, March 3. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.1.4042.6489

Invited Talks

2017

• Büchler, M. ‘From a research question to the right model for detecting Historical Text Reuse‘, E-Philologie. École Nationale des Chartes, Paris, April 24.
• Büchler, M. ‘Electronic Text Reuse Acquisition Project: Introduction & Motivation‘, Day of Digital Humanities at TU Dresden. Dresden, March 31.
• Büchler, M. ‘From a research question to the right model for detecting Historical Text Reuse‘. Groningen Centre for Digital Humanities, Groningen, March 2.
• Franzini, E., Franzini. G. ‘Brothers Grimm, Jane Austen and Paulus Orosius have one thing in common: the eTRAP research team and its DH projects‘, UCLDH Seminar Series. London, February 22.
• Moritz, M., Büchler, M. ‘Non-Literal Text Reuse in Historical Texts: An Approach to Identify Reuse Transformations, its Application and Future Work‘, Research Seminar of the Computational Linguistics Group, Faculty of Arts. Groningen, February 17.
• Büchler, M.  ‘Electronic text reuse acquisition project: detection of text reuse in historical texts‘. Ruhr-Universität Center for Religious Studies, Bochum,  January 18.

2016

• Franzini, G. ‘Advancing Machine-Assisted Intertextual Research on Historical Data: The electronic Text Reuse Acquisition Project (eTRAP)‘, Digital Humanities Lecture Series. Antwerp, November 23.
• Franzini. E., Büchler, M. ‘On the primitives and the process of text reuse (intertextuality)‘, Digital Humanities Seminar Series. Heldig, Helsinki, November 11.
• Büchler, M. ‘Introduction to historical text reuse detection‘. eHumanities Seminar, Leipzig, October 11.
• Franzini, G. ‘Grimms Märchen: Investigating an Intertextual Puzzle of Fairy Tales‘, Digital Scholarship Seminar. Galway, February 23.
• Franzini, E., Büchler, M. ‘Digital Breadcrumbs of Brothers Grimm: Entering the thick forest of intercultural transmission of motifs‘, Généalogies et intertextualités numérique: L’atelier du Bodmer Lab, Geneva, January 14.

2015

• Büchler, M. ‘Digital Humanities for Computer Scientists … or: How I became infected with the Indiana Jones virus‘, Keksseminar Informatik Uni Göttingen. Göttingen, November 12.
• Büchler, M. ‘Big Humanities Data: about the Role of Automatic Natural Language Processing Techniques in the Digital Humanities‘, Interacting Minds Centre Event. Aarhus, October 23.
• Büchler, M. ‘Big Humanities Data: Recommender Systems and Natural Language Processing in the Digital Humanities‘, The 6th Annual Centre for Language Technology Workshop. Gothenburg, October 22.

Presentations

2017

• Jander, M. ‘100 Years of Dystopian Novels: A Computational Analysis of Core Primitives‘, Doctoral School on Digital Humanities Symposium. Ghent, September 28.
• Moritz, M., Büchler, M. ‘Text Reuse in Bernard de Clairvaux: How Do Lexical Resources Help Model Text Reuse?‘, DH 2017. Montréal, Canada, August 11.
• Franzini, G., Büchler, M. ‘The Histories of Paulus Orosius: An Automatic Text Reuse Investigation into the First Christian History of Rome‘, DH 2017. Montréal, Canada, August 10.
• Büchler, M., Eckart, T., Franzini, G., Franzini, E. ‘Mining and analysing one billion requests to linguistic services – experiences and lessons learned from running a linguistic infrastructure for ten 10 years‘, DH 2017. Montréal, Canada, August 9.
• Franzini, E., Büchler, M. ‘Jane Austen’s Pride & Prejudice: A Computational Study of Text Adaptation‘, DH 2017. Montréal, Canada, August 9.
• Chambers, S., Daems, J., Franzini, G., Büchler, M., Aasman, S. ‘Towards a Tool and Data Criticism Framework: A Developer’s and User’s Perspective‘, DH Benelux. Utrecht,  July 5.
• Paluch, M., Rotari, G., Steding, D., Weß, M., Moritz, M., Büchler, M. ‘Analysis of part-of-speech tagging of historical German texts’, Digital Access to Textual Cultural Heritage (DATeCH 2017). Göttingen, June 1-2.
• Moritz, M., Büchler, M. ‘Ambiguity in Semantically Related Word Substitutions: an investigation in historical Bible translations’, The Workshop on Processing Historical Language at NODALIDA 2017. Gothenburg, May 22.
• Franzini, G., Franzini, E., Cugliana, E., Guido, N., Büchler, M. ‘Teaching Data Science – An Experience Report from Six International TRACER Tutorials and Workshops with Mixed Classes‘, #dariahTeach Open Resource Conference. Lausanne, March 24.
• Büchler, M., Franzini, G., Franzini, E., Moritz, M. ‘From Written Manuscripts to Big Humanities Data‘, #dariahTeach Open Resource Conference. Lausanne, March 24.
• Franzini, E. ‘The Rules of Text Simplification for Foreign Language Learners. Use Case: Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice‘, AIUCD 2017 Conference (3rd EADH Day). Rome, January 25.
• Franzini, G. ‘Latin Text Reuse Detection at Scale: An Automatic Text Reuse Investigation into the First Christian History of Rome‘, AIUCD 2017 Conference (3rd EADH Day). Rome, January 25.

2016

• Büchler, M., Eckart, T., Franzini, G., Franzini, E. ‘Mining and Analysing One Billion Requests to Linguistics Services: Experiences and Lessons Learned from Running a Linguistic Infrastructure for Ten Years‘, The IEEE International Conference on Big Data 2016 (IEEE BigData 2016). Washington DC, December 2016, 5-8.
• Moritz, M., Büchler, M. ‘Non-Literal Text Reuse in Historical Texts: An Approach to Identify Reuse Transformations and its Application to Biblical Reuse‘, 2nd Göttingen-Hildesheim Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Digital Humanities. Hildesheim, October 14.
• Rotari, G. ‘Empathy in Fairy Tales‘, 2nd Göttingen-Hildesheim Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Digital Humanities. Hildesheim, October 13.
• Franzini, E., Franzini, G. ‘The Digital Breadcrumbs of Brothers Grimm Project‘ (Conference Panel on Digital Folkloristics), Digital Humanities 2016 Conference. Kraków, July 15.
• Miyagawa, S., Büchler, M. ‘Computational Analysis of Text Reuse in Shenoute and Besa‘, 11th International Congress of Coptic Studies. July, 28.
• Büchler, M. ‘Semantische Erschließung in Big Humanities Data’, Wissenschaftsgeschichte und Digital Humanities in Forschung und Lehre Workshop. Göttingen, April 8.

2015

• Moritz, M., Büchler, M. ‘eTRAP – Overview: An early career research group on historical text reuse – Methodologies & research fields‘, Digital Humanities in Estonia A° 2015: Conference on translingual and transcultural digital humanities. Tartu, October 20.
• Franzini, E., Franzini, G. ‘Grimms Märchen: A semi-automatic exploration of intertextuality and intratextuality‘, Digital Humanities in Estonia A° 2015: Conference on translingual and transcultural digital humanities. Tartu, October 19.
• Büchler, M. ‘Probleme und Herausförderungen von Text Reuse-Erkennung auf großen Datenmengen‘, The Germanic Society for Forensic Linguistics (GSFL) Roundtable. Mainz, September 6.
• Moritz, M. ‘eTRAP: electronic Text Re-use Acquisition Project‘, CLARIN-D Fach-AG Workshop. Leipzig, June 30.
• Büchler, M. ‘Semantic Web und Ontologien im Bereich des Historical Text Re-use‘, Semantic Web Applications in the Humanities Workshop. Göttingen, March 10.
• Büchler, M. ‘eTRAP: electronic Text Re-use Acquisition Project‘, DHd Conference. Graz, February 24.

2014

• Büchler, M. ‘Scaling Historical Text Reuse‘, 2nd Workshop on Big Humanities Data. IEEE Big Data 2014. Washington DC, October 27.
• Büchler, M. ‘Historical Text Re-use Detection in Computational Humanities’, Workshop on bridging the gap between Computer Science and Digital Humanities. Leipzig, July 22.
• Büchler, M. ‘eTRAP – Historische Text Re-use Erkennung’ Göttinger philologisches Forum. Göttingen, July 10.
• Büchler, M. ‘Historical Text Re-use Detection’. University of Konstanz, June 11.
• Büchler, M. ‘Introduction: Requirements for a Digital Ecosystem’, International workshop on computer aided processing of intertextuality in ancient languages. Lyon, France, June 2.
• Büchler, M. ‘Computational Aspects of Historical Text Re-use’, International workshop on computer aided processing of intertextuality in ancient languages. Lyon, France, June 2-4.
• Büchler, M. ‘eTRAP: The Electronic Text Re-use Acquisition Project: Aims and Objectives’, Conference on Intertextuality and Digital Humanities: Approaches, Methods, Trends. Sponsored by Hardt Foundation. Vandoeuvres, Switzerland, February 13-15.
• Büchler, M. ‘Big Data in the Humanities’, Big Data Workshop. IBM Research Center, Böblingen, January 30.

Reports, Manuals, Theses

• Jander, M. (2016) Handwritten Text Recognition – Transkribus: A User Report. eTRAP Research Group, Institute of Computer Science, University of Göttingen, Germany, 2 November.
• Franzini, G., Franzini, E., Bulert, K., Büchler, M. (2016-) TRACER: An Automatic Text Reuse Detection Machine. User Manual. eTRAP Research Group, Institute of Computer Science, University of Göttingen, Germany.
• Büchler, M. (2013) Informationstechnische Aspekte des Historical Text Re-use (English: Computational Aspects of Historical Text Re-use). PhD Thesis. Leipzig.

Data-sets, tools

• Büchler, M. (2016) TRACER: Text Reuse Detection Machine