Thomas Haider
Dr. Thomas Haider

Lehrveranstaltungen
Sommersemester 2025
Wintersemester 2024/25
Akademischer Werdegang
Seit 2023 Postdoc am Lehrstuhl für Computational Humanities an der Universität Passau
2021 - 2023 Mitarbeiter am Insititut für Digital Humanities an der Universität Göttingen
2022 Promotion in Computerlinguistik/Digital Humanities an der Universität Stuttgart
2017 - 2021 Mitarbeiter am Max Planck Institut für empirische Ästhetik in Frankfurt am Main
2008 - 2016 Studium der Computerlinguistik und Philosophie an den Universitäten Heidelberg, Groningen, Eastern Michigan
Publikationen
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.
JOURNAL/PROCEEDINGS FULL PAPERS (PEER REVIEWED)
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 Proceed-
ings 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 Work-
shop 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. (under review) \texttt{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 2014--2023 (Quo Vadis subject areas and schools of
the DHd: Network analysis of the DHd Abstracts 2014--2023). 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.