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Computer Science in the Humanities
Information on eHumanities at the Institute of Computer Science, especially on the projects, publications and lectures, can be found on the site https://blogs.urz.uni-halle.de/ehumanities/.
Molitor/Ritter working group represented with three contributions at Digital Humanities 2026 in South Korea
(Mar 2026) The working group led by Prof. Paul Molitor and Jörg Ritter will be represented with three contributions at the Digital Humanities 2026 (DH2026) conference:
- F. Fischer, Y. Singh, J. Dähne, S. Heße, P. Molitor, M. Pöckelmann, J. Ritter, S. Balck, B. Grote, S. Frenzel and M. Stede. COMUTE in Action: Usage Scenarios for Comparing Complex Multilingual Text Variants. Accepted as long paper.
- J. Dähne and J. Ritter. Multilingual Alignments of Multiple Text Witnesses. Accepted as long paper.
- M. Pöckelmann and J. Dähne. Hands-On Workshop: Interactive Collation of Multiple Text Witnesses with LERA. Accepted as workshop.
DH is the leading international conference in the field of digital humanities. This year, it will take place from July 27 to 31 in Daejeon, South Korea.
Article ‘Xanthomonas coordinates type III–type II effector synergy by activating fruit-ripening pathway’ published in Science
(Dec 2025) We congratulate PD Dr. Jan Grau on his article ‘Xanthomonas coordinates type III–type II effector synergy by activating fruit-ripening pathway’ published in Science. The bioinformatic analyses of the project data on which the study's findings are based were carried out by him together with Dr. Trang Thi-Thu Phan, University of Tübingen. (University press release, link to the Science article )
Ceremony at the University of Halle: Dr Marcus Pöckelmann receives his doctoral certificate
On 26 April 2025, Martin Luther University held its 2025 ceremony. During the event, Dean Prof Dr Müller-Hannemann presented Dr Marcus Pöckelmann with his doctoral certificate. Marcus Pöckelmann received his doctorate in June 2024 with a topic at the interface between computer science and the text-based humanities. The title of his dissertation was ‘On LERA and the realisation of essential requirements for digital tools for collating different text versions of a work’. The doctoral project was supervised by Prof Dr Paul Molitor together with Dr Jörg Ritter. (Photo: Birgit Pöckelmann)
Project page of the DFG joint project COMUTE is online
The aim of the COMUTE - Collation of Multilingual Text project, in which the Institute of Computer Science at the Martin Luther University, CeDIS at the Free University of Berlin and the Department of Linguistics at the University of Potsdam are involved, is to develop and implement an e-research technology for the comparison of non-parallel versions of a text written in different languages and to test it in exemplary application contexts. As a result of the project more ...