TY - THES A1 - Mitidieri, Gaetano T1 - Wissenschaft, Technik und Medien im Werk Alfred Döblins im Kontext der europäischen Avantgarde T1 - Science, technology and media in the work of Alfred Döblin within the context of the European avant-garde N2 - Ziel dieser Studie ist es die bislang nur sporadisch untersuchten Wechselverhältnisse zwischen den Kulturbereichen Wissenschaft/Technik und Literatur am herausragenden Beispiel des Oeuvres des Schriftstellers und Arztes Alfred Döblin aufzuspüren. Hierbei scheint seine ärztlich-psychiatrische Laufbahn, die eine breite Grundlage wissenschaftlicher Diskurse anbietet, wie auch seine avantgardistische Literaturpraxis diese gegenseitige Befruchtung gefördert zu haben. Im Hinblick auf den Forschungsgegenstand und -zweck ist ein kulturwissenschaftlicher Ansatz versucht worden. Dieser vielperspektivische Ansatz, der von der Prämisse eines Wechselspiels aller Kulturbereiche untereinander ausgeht, gestattet eine dem Gegenstand angepasste Verknüpfung von verschiedenen Arbeitsmethoden wie der philologisch-literarhistorischen mit der konstruktivistischen und der komparatistischen. Hierbei ist eine Einbeziehung wissenschafts- und technikphilosophischer Reflexion wie auch eine dementsprechend erweiterte kulturhistorische Kontextualisierung vorgenommen worden. Die hier vorgelegte Analyse fokussiert auf wissenschaftlich-technische Bezüge sowohl in thematischer Hinsicht als auch in der Textgestaltung der schriftstellerischen Werke Döblins bis 1924. Gleichzeitig wird die diskursgeprägte, sprachliche und literarische Dimension seiner wissenschaftlichen Studien und technischer Texte - wie Krankenakte - hervorgehoben. Dieses erweiterte ‚Oeuvre‘-Konzept gestattet die Analyse der psychiatrischen, klinisch-ärztlichen und biochemischen Schriften Döblins sowie seiner Erzählwerke, seiner vielgestaltigen Publizistik und seiner intermedialen Anregungen aus den neuen audiovisuellen Medien. Dadurch wird eine diskurskritische kulturübergreifende Interdiskursivität wie auch eine ‚Hybridität‘ aller Texte aufgezeigt, die die Grundunterschiede zwischen Textsorten und Gattungsgrenzen relativiert. N2 - Aim of this study is to discover, in despite of the seldom and incomplete research in that field, the multiform two-way relationships between science/technology and literature on the outstanding example of the work of the writer, physician and psychiatrist Alfred Döblin. Indeed, his medical studies and job, which themselves relate to many scientific discourses, as well as his avant-garde writing techniques seem to have promoted this mutual influence. With regards to the object and aim, this research is intended as a cultural study. In that frame which assumes the interaction of all cultural practices within a omni-comprehensive culture field is possible to experiment the interaction between a variety of approaches, such as the classical philological and the constructivist and the comparatist ones; it let easy connect literary history with science philosophy and critical studies of technology. The study focalizes its attention on topics and ways of seeing and representation as well as on features of writing techniques which can be related to science and technology in Döblin’s literary work until 1924. In the same way, it draws attention to the linguistic and literary aspects of his scientific articles and technical texts. The analysis of Döblin’s psychiatric, clinical and biochemical studies as well as of his literary works and nonfiction writings about society and popular science, not to forget his reflexion concerning the new audiovisual media, shows a interdiscursivity, which cross the boundaries between the ‘two cultures’, as well as it has an apparent critical function of the ‘orders of discourse’. In connection with it, the study shows the hybridity of all Döblin’s texts, which relativize basic distinctions between types of text as well as between genres. KW - Wissenschaft KW - Technik KW - Medien KW - Alfred Döblin KW - Avantgarde KW - Literatur KW - Science KW - technology KW - media KW - Alfred Döblin KW - avant-garde KW - German literature KW - Germanistik KW - comparative literature Y1 - 2015 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-89390 SN - 978-3-86956-364-0 PB - Universitätsverlag Potsdam CY - Potsdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Munnes, Stefan A1 - Harsch, Corinna A1 - Knobloch, Marcel A1 - Vogel, Johannes S. A1 - Hipp, Lena A1 - Schilling, Erik T1 - Examining Sentiment in Complex Texts. A Comparison of Different Computational Approaches JF - Frontiers in Big Data N2 - Can we rely on computational methods to accurately analyze complex texts? To answer this question, we compared different dictionary and scaling methods used in predicting the sentiment of German literature reviews to the "gold standard " of human-coded sentiments. Literature reviews constitute a challenging text corpus for computational analysis as they not only contain different text levels-for example, a summary of the work and the reviewer's appraisal-but are also characterized by subtle and ambiguous language elements. To take the nuanced sentiments of literature reviews into account, we worked with a metric rather than a dichotomous scale for sentiment analysis. The results of our analyses show that the predicted sentiments of prefabricated dictionaries, which are computationally efficient and require minimal adaption, have a low to medium correlation with the human-coded sentiments (r between 0.32 and 0.39). The accuracy of self-created dictionaries using word embeddings (both pre-trained and self-trained) was considerably lower (r between 0.10 and 0.28). Given the high coding intensity and contingency on seed selection as well as the degree of data pre-processing of word embeddings that we found with our data, we would not recommend them for complex texts without further adaptation. While fully automated approaches appear not to work in accurately predicting text sentiments with complex texts such as ours, we found relatively high correlations with a semiautomated approach (r of around 0.6)-which, however, requires intensive human coding efforts for the training dataset. In addition to illustrating the benefits and limits of computational approaches in analyzing complex text corpora and the potential of metric rather than binary scales of text sentiment, we also provide a practical guide for researchers to select an appropriate method and degree of pre-processing when working with complex texts. KW - sentiment analysis KW - German literature KW - dictionary KW - word embeddings KW - automated text analysis KW - computer-assisted text analysis KW - scaling method Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.3389/fdata.2022.886362 SN - 2624-909X VL - 5 PB - Frontiers Media CY - Lausanne ER -