Thomas Haider

• Computational Humanities
• Computational Literary Studies
• (Computational) Ecocriticism
• Environmental Humanities
• Quantitative Methods
• Corpus Linguistics/ Corpus-Driven Approaches
• Emotion and Sentiment Analysis
• Stilistics/ Rhetoric
• Social Media Phenomena/ Internet Memes
• Poetry

BOOKS & MONOGRAPHS

2025

Reiter, N., Haider, T., Buschmann, H., Kababgi, D. (eds.). (2025). Book of Abstracts DHd 2025 Bielefeld.

2024
Weis, J., Bunout, E., Haider, T. (eds.). (2024). Book of Abstracts DHd 2024 Passau.

2023
Haider, T. (2023). A Computational Stylistics of Poetry. PhD Thesis.
http://dx.doi.org/10.18419/opus-12721

2015
Leidenfrost-Burth, L., Haider, T., Wöllstein, A., (2015). Rechtschreibwortschatz f ̈ur Erwachsene. Winter Verlag Heidelberg.

IN COLLECTIONS

2025

Cotten, A., Haider, T. (2025). Klangabbildungen. In: Hannes Bajohr, Ann Cotten (eds.) "Schreiben nach KI", Reihe Rohstoffe, Matthes \& Seitz ISBN 978-3-7518-7030-6

IN PROCEEDINGS/JOURNALS (PEER REVIEWED)

2026

Sela, A., Haider, T., Plechac, P. (under review). Mind the Meter: Systematic Language Variation in Poetry Corpora Confounds Computational Analysis.

2025

Gittel, B., Haider, T. (2025). The Ongoing Birth of the Narrator: Empirical Evidence for the Emergence of the Author-Narrator Distinction in Literary Criticism. In Digital Scholarship in the Humanities Journal.

Haider, T., Perschl, T., Rehbein, M. (2025). Quantification of Biodiversity from Historical Survey Text with LLM-based Best-Worst-Scaling. In EcoNLP Workshop at NoDaLiDa2025.

2024
Haider, T. (2024). A Large Annotated Reference Corpus of New High German Poetry. In Proceedings of Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, LREC-COLING 2024, Torino

Ostrowski, A., Haider, T., Berger, D., Büttner, B., Herbers, K., Rehbein, M. (2024). Annotating Formulaic Language in 12th Century Papal Charters. In: Formulaic Language in Historical Research and Data Extraction Conference. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10519355

Plechac, P., Cinkova, S., Kolar, R., Sela, A., De Sisto, M., Nugues, L., Haider, T. (2024). PoeTree: Poetry Treebanks in Czech, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.

2021
Haider, T. (2021). Metrical Tagging in the Wild: Building and Annotating Poetry Corpora
with Rhythmic Features. Proceedings of the 16th European Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL): Main Volume

Wöckener, J., Haider, T., Miller, T., Nguyen, T., Nguyen, T., Vu Pham, M., Belouadi, J.
and Eger, S. (2021). End-to-end style-conditioned poetry generation: What does it take to learn from examples alone? In Proceedings of 5th SIGHUM Workshop. EMNLP.

Thissen, B., Schlotz, W., Abel, C., Scharinger, M., Merrill, J., Haider, T. and Menninghaus
W. (2021). At the Heart of Optimal Reading Experiences: Cardiovascular Activity and Flow
Experiences in Fiction Reading. Reading Research Quarterly.

2020
Haider, T., Eger, S., Kim, E., Klinger, R. and Menninghaus, W., (2020). PO-EMO: Conceptualization, Annotation, and Modeling of Aesthetic Emotions in German and English Poetry. In Proceedings of LREC 2020, Marseille. & arXiv:2003.07723

Rother, D., Haider, T. and Eger, S. (2020). CMCE at SemEval-2020 Task 1: Clustering on Manifolds of Contextualized Embeddings to Detect Historical Meaning Shifts. In Proceedings of SemEval at COLING 2020, Barcelona.

2019
Haider, T. and Eger, S., (2019). Semantic Change and Emerging Tropes In a Large Corpus of New High German Poetry. In Proceedings of the Historical Language Change Workshop at ACL, Florence.

Birnbaum, D.J. Bories, A.S., Haider, T.N., and Sarv, M., (2019). Plotting Poetry 3. Conference
report. Studia Metrica et Poetica Volume 6.2, 2019

2018
Haider, T. and Kuhn, J., (2018). Supervised Rhyme Detection with Siamese Recurrent Networks. In Proceedings of the SIGHUM Workshop at COLING Santa Fe, NM 2018.

2017
Haider, T. and Palmer, A., (2017). Modeling Communicative Purpose with Functional Style:
Corpus and Features for German Genre and Register Analysis. In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Stylistic Variation at EMNLP, Copenhagen (also accepted at RANLP).

2014
Bingel, J. and Haider, T., (2014). Named Entity Tagging a Very Large Unbalanced Corpus:
Training and Evaluating NE Classifiers. In Proceedings of LREC.


EXTENDED ABSTRACTS (PEER REVIEWED)

2025

Sela, A., Haider, T., Plechac, P. The Unnatural Language of Poetic Meters, Or Why You Should Be Afraid of Counting Words. International Digital Humanities Conference DH2025, Lisbon. Long Talk.

2024
Haider, T., Gassner, S., Rehbein, M. (2024, accepted) Quo Vadis Fachbereiche und Schulen der DHd: Netzwerkanalyse der DHd Abstracts 20142023 (Quo Vadis subject areas and schools of the DHd: Network analysis of the DHd Abstracts 20142023). Digital Humanities Conference in the German Speaking Area DHd2024, Passau. Poster.

2023
Bei der Wieden, G., Bathurst, T., Haider, T. (2023). More Social, Less Religious: Trends of
Hardcover Fiction Titles on the New York Times Bestseller List 2000-2020. In Proceedings of International Digital Humanities Conference DH2023, Graz. Long Talk.

Haider, T., Schennach, S., Thelen, J., Wesche, J. (2023) Barockpoetik als Wikibase: Eine
Datenbank zu konfessionsgeschichtlichen Aspekten in deutschen Barockpoetiken (Baroque
poetics as Wikibase: A database on aspects of the history of confession in German
Baroque poetry). In Book of Abstracts of Digital Humanities Conference in the German Speaking Area DHd2023, Trier/Luxembourg. Poster.

2022
Zylla, M., Haider, T. (2022). Distant Reading of the German Coalition Deal: Recognizing
Policy Positions with BERT-based Text Classification. In Proceedings of International Digital
Humanities Conference DH2022, Tokyo (online). Poster.

Haider, T., Gittel, B. (2022). Lexical Semantic Change in Literary Criticism. IN Proceedings of
International Digital Humanities Conference DH2022, Tokyo (online). Short Talk.

2020
Haider, T., van Dyk-Hemming, A. and Eberhardt, J. (2020). Extracting a Social Network of
Musicologists. In Proceedings of International Digital Humanities Conference DH2020, Ottawa (on line). Poster.

Plechac, P. and Haider, T. (2020). Mapping Topic Evolution Across Poetic Traditions. In Proceed ings of International Digital Humanities Conference DH2020, Ottawa (online). arXiv:2006.15732. Short Talk.

2019
Haider, T., (2019). Diachronic Topics in New High German Poetry. In Proceedings of International Digital Humanities Conference DH2019, Utrecht. arXiv:1909.11189. Long Talk.