Serviceproject

Computational Humanities, Corpus Linguistics, and Research Software Engineering

The Service Project S supports research across the CRC with expertise from corpus linguistics and computational humanities. The project develops methods and tools that enable researchers to analyze religious metaphors across different languages, historical periods, and media, leveraging the large text corpora collected during the first funding phase.

A central goal of the project is to make computational approaches accessible to scholars in the humanities. To this end, S collaborates closely with individual subprojects in preparing, enriching, and analyzing their data. The methods employed range from corpus linguistics and text mining to machine learning and AI-supported approaches, including topic modeling, named-entity recognition, text reuse detection, automated metaphor identification, as well as multilingual and multimodal text analysis.

In addition, the project develops reusable digital services tailored to the needs of CRC researchers, such as databases, web applications, annotation environments, and AI-based workflows. By combining expertise in Computational Humanities, Corpus Linguistics, and Research Software Engineering, S helps create new opportunities for the large-scale study of religious metaphors while fostering collaboration and methodological exchange across the CRC.