Dr. Franziska A. Pannach
Assistant Professor in Information Science & Digital Humanities
Modeling and analyzing narratives using NLP and Semantic Web technologies. Specializing in computational approaches to mythological and folkloric narratives at the University of Groningen.
About My Research
I am an Assistant Professor in Information Science & Digital Humanities at the Centre for Language and Cognition (CLCG), Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Netherlands, specializing in computational approaches to narrative analysis.
My research focuses on modeling and analyzing mythological and folkloric narratives using Natural Language Processing and Semantic Web technologies, exploring how computational methods can reveal patterns in storytelling across cultures and time periods.
Through projects like GOLEM (Graph Ontologies for Literary Evolution Models) and my work with the DFG Myth Research Group STRATA, I develop innovative digital tools for comparative narrative analysis and mythological studies.
Research Interests
- Natural Language Processing
- Semantic Web Technologies
- Computational Folkloristics
- Digital Mythological Studies
Current Position
Assistant Professor
Centre for Language and Cognition (CLCG)
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Netherlands
Teaching
Academic Year 2024/25
- Periode 1a: Semantic Web Technology (MSc, with Prof. G. Bouma)
- Periode 1b: Database-driven Webtechnology (BSc)
- Periode 1b: Digital Humanities: Tools and Methods (MSc, Course Coordination)
- Periode 2a: Analysing Data (MSc)
- Periode 2a: Web Technology (BSc, with F. Tsiwah PhD)
- Periode 2a: Digital Humanities: Thesis Lab (MSc, with Prof. S. Aasman)
Supervision
PhD Students
- Pritha Majumdar, Computational Analysis of Similes in Fiction, RUG
- Kristina Schneider, Co-tutelle RUG and University of Mainz, Germany
Master's Theses
- Tarjia Alam Nisha, Navigating the Past: Corpus Preparation and Annotation Guidelines for Identifying Valid Itineraries in Historical Travelogues, MSc Applied Computer Science, University of Göttingen
Past Supervision
- Kristina Schneider, MSc Digital Humanities, University of Mainz, Germany
- Md Saiful Islam Sayef, MSc Applied Data Science, University of Göttingen, Germany
- Aravind Krishnan, DAAD Internship at University of Göttingen, Germany, College of Engineering Trivandrum, India
- Kristina Schneider, MSc Digital Humanities, Project Internship at University of Göttingen, Germany, University of Mainz, Germany
- Theresa Blaschke, MSc Digital Humanities, Project Internship at University of Göttingen, Germany, University of Marburg, Germany
Current Research Projects
Developing computational methods to analyze narratives, mythologies, and folkloric texts using Natural Language Processing and Semantic Web technologies.
Publications
Selected publications in digital humanities, computational linguistics, and mythological studies showcasing innovative approaches to narrative analysis.
Showing 18 of 18 publications
Modelling and comparison of narrative domains with shallow ontologies
Proceedings of the 4th Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge (LDK2023)
The GOLEM Triple Store: A Graph-Based Representation of Narrative and Fiction
Proceedings of the Semantic Methods for Events and Stories (SEMMES) Workshop at ESWC
'Orpheus Came to His End by Being Struck by a Thunderbolt': Annotating Events in Mythological Sequences
Proceedings of the 17th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW-XVII)
An issue public's confirmation-biased news feeding in changing political constellations: A quasi-experimental field study in the German conflict over genome editing
New Media & Society
Of lions and Yakshis
Semantic Web
Cracking a Walnut with a Sledgehammer: XLM-RoBERTa for German Verbal Idiom Disambiguation Tasks
Proceedings of the Shared Task on German Verbal Idiom Disambiguation at KONVENS
NLAPOST2021: 1st Shared Task on Part-of-Speech Tagging for Nguni Languages
Proceedings of the International Conference of the Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa (DHASA)
A Unified Approach to Discourse Relation Classification in nine Languages
Proceedings of the 2nd Shared Task on Discourse Relation Parsing and Treebanking (DISRPT 2021)
GCDH@LT-EDI-EACL2021: XLM-RoBERTa for hope speech detection in English, Malayalam, and Tamil
Proceedings of the First Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
Employing Wikipedia as a resource for Named Entity Recognition in morphologically complex under-resourced languages
Proceedings of the 14th Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora, BUCC@RANLP 2021
Judgments of effort exerted by others are influenced by received rewards
Scientific Reports
#GCDH at WNUT-2020 task 2: BERT-Based Models for the Detection of Informativeness in English COVID-19 Related Tweets
Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text, W-NUT@EMNLP 2020
Deep neural network design for learning Kriegspiel, an imperfect information game
Proceedings of the First South African Forum for Artificial Intelligence Research in Cape Town (FAIR)
Narrative Echoes across Time and Space: Comparative Analysis of Structural Similarities in Myth and Folktale Sequences
University of Göttingen
An ontology-driven information system based on Vladimir Propp's morphology of the folktale for southern African folktales
University of Göttingen
To live and to lose: A regular grammar for the hylistic comparison of the narrative materials of Orpheus and Eurydice
Mächte und Unterwelt in mesopotamischen und griechischen Quellen, Mythological Studies (MythoS), de Gruyter
Humanities in a Digital World
The Edinburgh Companion to the New European Humanities, Edinburgh University Press
Negotiating the possibilities digital humanities offers Media and Cultural Studies for crisis curriculum adjustments in the time of COVID-19
Alternation African Scholarship Book Series (AASBS)
Curriculum Vitae
Assistant Professor, CLCG, Faculty of Arts
Rijskuniversiteit Groningen (RUG), Netherlands
Postdoctoral Researcher (GOLEM Project)
Doctoral studies (Dr. rer. nat.) in Applied Computer Science
Digital Humanities/Computational Linguistics, University of Göttingen, Germany
Requirements Engineer for Academic Journal Publishing
Göttingen University Press/HIRMEOS Project, Lower Saxony State and University Library, Göttingen, Germany
ERASMUS Mundus INSPIRE
University of KwaZulu-Natal, Westville, South Africa
MSc Applied Computer Science (Digital Humanities)
University of Göttingen, Germany
Scholarship Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes
BSc Applied Computer Science (Computational Neuroscience)
University of Göttingen, Germany
Instructor for Media and Information Services
Lower Saxony State and University Library, Göttingen, Germany
Get In Touch
I welcome collaborations, speaking opportunities, and discussions about computational approaches to narrative analysis, digital humanities research, and mythological studies.
f.a.pannach@rug.nl
Office Phone
+31 50 363 9111
Office Location
Centre for Language and Cognition (CLCG)
Oude Kijk in 't Jatstraat 26
9712 EK Groningen, Netherlands
Office Hours
By appointment
Contact via email
I am always interested in discussing potential collaborations, research partnerships, and speaking opportunities in the field of digital humanities.
Areas of Interest:
- Joint research projects
- Conference presentations
- Workshop facilitation
- Graduate student mentoring