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Faculty of Arts and HumanitiesDepartment of Digital Humanities

Dr. Jürgen Hermes

Research Fellow

  1. Research
  2. Teaching
  3. Publications
  4. Talks and Presentations
  5. Fellowships
  6. Further Tasks
  7. Other Stuff

Currently involved

 

Research Projects

Research Projects (past)

  • Lead IDH: Qualifikationsentwicklungsforschung/Stellenanzeigenpool, Kooperationsprojekt mit dem Bundesinstitut für Berufsbildung (BIBB)
  • Lead IDH: Vergleich von Berufsinformationsportalen – RADAR Projekt, Auftragsforschung für das Bundesinstitut für Berufsbildung (BIBB)
  • Collaborative partner: „ODRA - Ordnen, Deuten, Richtigstellen, Annähern #projektODRA (Social Media Rapid Reaction Unit)" (Stiftung Erinnerung-Verantwortung-Zukunft) 
  • Project Management: "Bild, Beschreibung, (Meta)Text", funded by the Research Commission of the Philosophical Faculty, University of Cologne
  • Advisory: Project HistoriaApp, funded by the eLearning-Förderfonds of the Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
  • Advisory: Der Geschichtstalk im Super7000, a project of the Gerda Henkel Foundation (Düsseldorf) and the University of Education FHNW (Basel, Brugg-Windisch) in cooperation with the association with the Verband Historiker und Historikerinnen Deutschlands (VHD).
  • Project Management "Informationsextraktion aus Stellenanzeigen"
  • Dissertation: "Textprozessierung - Design und Applikation."
  • Project Management "Tesla" (Text Engineering Software Laboratory)
  • Project "SPre" (Raw text preprocessing)
  • Project "ARC" - Annotated Raeto-Romanic Chrestomazia (DFG-Projekt)

Teaching

Publications

  • Hermes, Jürgen, Kai Niebes, Sarah Oberbichler, and Andreas Wagner. Forthcoming. LLMs under Control: Open Models in Research and Practice. DHd Conference 2026, Vienna.
  • Wagner, Andreas, and Jürgen Hermes. Forthcoming. Encoded Humanities, or: Not Everything Has to Be Generative: A Dialogue on AI Tasks and Roles. In Large Language Models for the History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science: Reflections from a Field in Motion.
  • Hermes, Jürgen, and Susanne Kurz. Forthcoming. Digital Competencies for the Next Generation: The Cologne Model of Early-Career Support and Digital Expertise for the Future of DH. In From Global to Local? Digital Methods in the Humanities in the German-Speaking World: A Triptych. Melusina Press. https://doi.org/10.26298/1981-5722-dkfd
  • Hermes, Jürgen. 2025. Review of Richard Němec (ed.), Spatial Constructions: Digital Humanities and the “Measurability” of the Nazi Regime. Neue Politische Literatur. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42520-025-00645-y
  • König, Mareike, Jürgen Hermes, Philip Schildkamp, Vivian Wolter, and Ulrike Wuttke. 2024. Microblogging with Mastodon: Fediverse, Fedihum, and Digital Humanities Practice. DHd 2024 Quo Vadis DH, Passau, Germany. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10698458
  • Hermes, Jürgen. 2023. Through Neural Networks toward a Lingua Franca? How Algorithms Shape Our Communication. In Joachim Berger and Thorsten Wübbena (eds.), Ordering and Expanding Knowledge: From Analog to Digital Europe?, 47–64. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. Link
  • Eide, Øyvind, Jürgen Hermes, and Andreas Witt. 2023. Processing of Information—Linguistics, HKI, and Digital Humanities: Developments in Cologne. In Diversity and Integration: Languages in Social and Digital Spaces, 215–226. Link
  • Hermes, Jürgen. 2022. Polygraphia III: The Cipher That Pretends to Be an Artificial Language. In C. Layfield and J. Abela (eds.), Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on the Voynich Manuscript (VOY2022). CEUR-WS Vol. 3313. https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3313/#paper7
  • Hermes, Jürgen. 2021. Chirpy Humanities. In Lisa Kolodzie et al. (eds.), Public Humanities. https://publicdh.hypotheses.org/42
  • Hermes, Jürgen. 2020. Vision as Process: Reflections on the Future of Higher Education in the Human–Machine Triad. In Marko Demantowsky et al. (eds.), What Does Digitalization Do to Universities? Berlin: De Gruyter. Link
  • Hermes, Jürgen, Harald Klinke, and Dennis Demmer. 2020. Public Humanities Tools: The Need for Low-Threshold Services. DHd 2020 Spielräume, Paderborn.
  • Richter, Michael, Jürgen Hermes, and Claes Neuefeind. 2019. Aspectual Classifications: Use of Raters’ Associations and Co-occurrences of Verbs for Aspectual Classification in German. In Jaap van den Herik and Ana Paula Rocha (eds.), Agents and Artificial Intelligence. Springer.
  • Mensching, Guido, Jean-Yves Lalande, Jürgen Hermes, and Claes Neuefeind (eds.). 2018. Language – Human – Machine. Cologne. Link
  • Hermes, Jürgen, Michael Richter, and Claes Neuefeind. 2018. Supervised Classification of Aspectual Verb Classes in German: A Comparison of Subcategorization-Frame-Based and Window-Based Approaches. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART 2018), 653–662.
  • Hermes, Jürgen. 2018. Manipulation Algorithms: Why Cambridge Analytica Is Not the Greatest Threat. Spektrum.de. Link
  • Hermes, Jürgen, Michael Richter, and Claes Neuefeind. 2015. Automatic Induction of German Aspectual Verb Classes in a Distributional Framework. In Proceedings of GSCL 2015, 122–129. PDF
  • Hermes, Jürgen. 2015. Experiments as Objects of Scholarly Communication. In Experiments in the Digital Humanities (#dhiha6), Paris. Link
  • Richter, Michael, and Jürgen Hermes. 2015. Classification of German Verbs Using Nouns in Argument Positions and Aspectual Features. In Networds 2015. PDF
  • Zampieri, Marcos, Jürgen Hermes, and Stephan Schwiebert. 2013. Identification of Patterns and Document Ranking of Internet Texts: A Frequency-Based Approach. In Non-standard Data Sources in Corpus-based Research. Aachen: Shaker.
  • Hermes, Jürgen. 2012. What Counts as Text and How to Study It. Guest contribution on Spektrum.de Scilogs. Link
  • Hermes, Jürgen. 2012. Text Processing: Design and Application. Doctoral dissertation, University of Cologne. Link
  • Hermes, Jürgen, and Stephan Schwiebert. 2009. Classification of Text Processing Components: The Tesla Role System. In Advances in Data Analysis, Data Handling and Business Intelligence, 285–294. Berlin: Springer.
  • Hermes, Jürgen, and Christoph Benden. 2005. Fusion of Annotation and Preprocessing as an Approach to the Raw Text Problem. In Sprachtechnologie, Mobile Communication and Linguistic Resources, 78–90. Frankfurt am Main: Lang.
  • Benden, Christoph, and Jürgen Hermes. 2004. Preprocessing with Side Effects: Dynamic Annotation. In Proceedings of KONVENS 2004, 25–28. Vienna.

Talks and Presentations

  • January 2020: Social Media Scheduling. Poster presentation at the  #DHCon 2020 in Cologne (with Dennis Demmer) Poster
  • December 2019: Zeitsprung 222 - The Voynich-Manuskript. Podcast-Interview (by Daniel Meßner). LInk
  • November 2019: Antitrolleinheit #projektODRA. Session management at #histocamp in Berlin (with Björn Klein)
  • October 2019: Synonyme und Polyseme - Zur Kategorisierung von Anforderungsprofilen aus Stellenanzeigen. Lecture during the course of the Forum "Informationsgenese aus Online-Stellenanzeigen" of the Bertelsmann-Stiftung (with Johanna Binnewitt)
  • September 2019: Deep Learning for Language Analysis Summer School (#DL4LASS). Organisation of the Summer School in cooperation with Kompetenzcluster CA III - Quantitative Modeling of Complex Systems. Website
  • Juli 2019: Ingenieure oder Linguist|inn|en? Die Computerlinguistik zwischen praktischer Anwendung und linguistischer Theorie. Advanced Session during the lecture series "Lunch & Linguiistics"  by the Cologne Center of Language Sciences (CCLS).
  • Mai 2019: Wissenschaftskommunikation mit Social Media. Lecture during the course of the Seminar "Kommunikation in den sozialen Medien" von Simon Meier in Dresden.
  • Mai 2019: Kommunikation: Tier - Mensch - Maschine. Lecture during the course of the  Ringvorlesung "Human Agencies" at the University of Cologne (with Øyvind Eide).
  • Mai 2019: Using Natural Language Processing Tools in Digital Humanities. Lecture and Hands-on-Session during the "DH-Tages" by Anne Baillot in Le Mans.
  • Mai 2019: Diessener Klausur Mensch Maschine Zukunft #DKMMZ19. Interview with Georgios Chatzoudis during the course of the artificial intelligence examination at Hochschule der Zukunft. Link
  • Januar 2019: Was geschieht? – Fake News und bedrohte Demokratie. Participation in the panel discussion as part of the event series "Wahrheit, Populismus, Internet - Fake News und Macht im digitalen Zeitalter" by the University and City Library of Cologne, the Center for Data and Simulation Science, the Department of Communication and Marketing and the Institute for Media Culture and Theater at the University of Cologne. Flyer 
  • November 2018: Einführung in autoChirp für Twitter. Lecture and workshop at the Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology (im Seminar von Levke Harders). Digitales Handout.
  • September 2018: Late Summer School: Machine Learning for Language Analysis. Organisation der Summer School in cooperation with Kompetenzcluster CA III - Quantitative Modeling of Complex Systems. Website
  • Juni 2018: Zuordnung von Forschungsdaten: Wem gehört das Text- bzw. Datenkorpus? Participation in the panel discussion of the conference "Text und Data Mining" at the University of Trier. Website
  • Mai 2018: Schaffen statt konsumieren. Eine Schnittstelle zur Location-based-History. Guest lecture in the context of the colloquium "Die digitale Herausforderung und die historisch-politische Bildung" (Marko Demantowsky, Monika Waldis) in Basel, Schweiz. Website
  • April 2018: A modular workbench for classification, extraction, and categorization tasks on a corpus of Job Ads. Lecture during the course of the conference „Text Mining on Job Advertisements – Strategies for discovering valuable information from large corpora“ at GESIS, Cologne. CfP Program
  • Februar 2018: Alles ist im Fluss - Ressourcen und Rezensionen in den Digital Humanities. Panel with Rüdiger Hohls, Friederike Neuber, Anne Baillot, Christoph Schöch, and Patrick Sahle at the DHd2018 in Cologne.
  • September 2017: Data Extraction; Hands on Temporal Experession Detection. Workshop at Summer School "Computergestützte Analyse & Verarbeitung von Sprache & Text -Text (and Data) Mining Methoden in der geisteswissenschaftlichen Forschung" Graz, Austria.
  • September 2017: Participation 9. German-Israeli Frontiers of Humanities (GISFOH) Symposium "Negotiating the Other, Confronting the Self" (invited by the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung), Jerusalem, Israel. 
  • April 2017: Machine Learning in Language Technology. Talk at the Machine Learning Day 2017, organized by the competence area 3 “Quantitative Modeling of Complex Systems”, University of Cologne. Presentation
  • February 2017: Twhistory with autoChirp. Poster and system presentation with poster slam at the DHd 2017 (Bern). Poster (pdf, 4.5MB)
  • February 2017: Bild, Beschreibung, (Meta)Text. Talk at the DHd 2017 (Bern), with Lisa Dieckmann and Claes Neuefeind.
  • November 2016: #histoTools: SoftwareTools für Historiker|innen. Session at #histocamp 2016 in Mainz.
  • October 2016: Bild, Beschreibung, (Meta)Text: Automatische inhaltliche Erschließung und Annotation kunsthistorischer Daten. Talk at the conference "In, über, unter, jenseits und dazwischen – Ebenen digitaler Bilder" in Cologne. Presentation
  • September 2016: Reentweetment mit autoChirp. Virtual Talk for the Workshop "Twitter and Teaching" at the 51. Deutschen Historikertag 2016 in Hamburg. Video. 
  • June 2016: Das Geheimnis der Kryptologie Botschaften verschlüsseln, Codes knacken. Workshop under the media education program of the Festival "Goldener Spatz 2016", Deutsche Kindermedienstiftung, Gera.  
  • April 2016: Analyse von Sprache und Literatur: Wie Computerlinguistik helfen kann. Talk for the German Language Society (Gesellschaft für deutsche Sprache, GfdS) within the Bookstore Böttger in Bonn. Prezi
  • March 2016: autoChirp in Action. Presentation of the Web Application autoChirp at the course "NRW History" at the HHU Düsseldorf. Webseite von autoChirp
  • February 2016: Automatische Erschließung, Annotation und Zuordnung kunsthistorischer Daten. Short presentation at the DFG-Roundtable "Das digitale Bild" in Bonn (with Lisa Dieckmann)
  • September 2015: Automatic Induction of German Aspectual Verb Classes in a Distributional Framework. Talk at the GSCL Conference 2015 in Essen (with Michael Richter)
  • June 2015: Texts in a Laboratory. Talk and presentation of Tesla at the #dhiha6-Conference: Digital Humanities Experiments. Presentation
  • May 2015: Mining a Corpus of Job Ads. Presentation at the Workshop "Strings & Structures. Computational Linguistics and Biology" - Abstract - Presentation 
  • January 2015: Computergestützte Inhaltsanalyse am Beispiel von Stellenanzeigen. Brown Bag Session at the Bundesinstitut für Berufsbildung in Bonn (with Manuel Schandock).   
  • November 2014: Klassifikation von Textabschnitten am Beispiel von Stellenanzeigen. Presentation at the research colloquium of the Department of Linguistics - Linguistic data processing (with Alena Geduldig) Presentation
  • June 2014: Interview on the Voynich Manuscript. Podcast of Holger Klein "Wrint - Zum Thema" Nr. WR296
  • November 2012: Processing and Classifying Internet Texts with Tesla. Poster presentation at the empiricom 2012 in Aachen (with Marcos Zampieri).
  • August 2012: Automatic Identification of Patterns in Internet Language Talk at the Workshop on Automatic Processing of Non-Standard Data Sources in Corpus-Based Research in Cologne (with Marcos Zampieri and Stephan Schwiebert).
  • June 2012: Tesla - Ein Labor für Computerlinguisten. Talk and software presentation at the TaCoS 2012 in Trier (with Stephan Schwiebert). Abstract
  • May 2012: Die Tesla-Plattform. Poster and software presentation at TextGrid Summit 2012 in Darmstadt (with Stephan Schwiebert). Poster
  • March 2012: Geheime Schriften und Codeknackerei. Talk at Kölner Kinder Uni 2012. Abstract Presentation Appendix
  • February 2012: Die laborative Forschungsumgebung Tesla. System presentation at TextGrid-Nutzertreffen in Darmstadt (with Stephan Schwiebert).
  • December 2011: Reproduzierbarkeit, Methodentransfer, Antwortmaschinen. Disputatio, University of Cologne Köln, Faculty of Arts. Thesen
  • February 2011: Tesla - Plattform für kooperative, experimentelle Textprozessierung. Poster ans software presentation at the DGfS-Jahrestagung 2011 in Göttingen (with Stephan Schwiebert). Poster
  • October 2010: Tesla - Framework zur komponentenbasierten Textprozessierung. System presentation at Fraunhofer IAIS (mit Stephan Schwiebert).
  • November 2009: Arbeiten im TextLabor. Talk at the Opening of the PC-Pools Forschendes Lernen & Vermitteltes Lernen, Faculty of Arts, University of Cologne.
  • July 2008: Classification of text processing components: The Tesla Role System. Talk at the  Annual Conference of the GfKl 2008 in Hamburg (with Stephan Schwiebert).
  • April 2008: Eins - Zwei - Viele. Zählen in verschiedenen Sprachen. Talk at the KölnerKinderUni 2008 (mit Theresa Hanske) Abstract
  • April 2007: Tesla - The Text Engineering Software Laboratory. System presentation at the GLDV-Frühjahrstagung 2007 in Tübingen (mit Stephan Schwiebert)
  • March 2007: Tesla - Ein Labor für Computerlinguisten. Poster and software presentation at the  Annual Conference of the DGfS 2007 in Siegen (with Stephan Schwiebert)
  • April 2005: Fusion von Annotation und Präprozessierung als Vorschlag zur Behandlung des Rohtextproblems. Vortrag auf der GLDV-Frühjahrstagung 2005 in Bonn (with Christoph Benden). 
  • February 2005: Annotation inkl. - Maschinelle Auszeichnung von Sprachdaten. Poster and software presentation of SPre at the DGfS-Jahrestagung 2005 in Cologne (with Christoph Benden.).
  • September 2004: Präprozessierung mit Nebenwirkungen: Dynamische Annotation. Poster and software presentation of XPre at the KONVENS 2004 in Vienna.

Fellowships

Other Stuff

  • Suizid und Medienkonsum (seminar paper). Has surprisingly been quoted, thus downloadable here (Published under my birth name Jürgen Hühn).
  • Auxiliarkonstruktionen und maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung (master's thesis). Ms., Sprachliche Informationsverarbeitung, Institut für Linguistik, Universität zu Köln. Full Version (pdf), Abstract (pdf)