Thomas Schmidt, M.Sc.

Academic Curriculum Vitae

Since 4/2020

Research assistant in the DFG-Project "Emotions in Drama". Find more information here.

From 4/2019 to 3/2021

Partly responsible for the Digital Humanities Master Program at the University of Regensburg. More information: Digital Humanities Master at the University of Regensburg

Since 11/2017

Research assistant, PhD Student and lecturer at the chair for Media Informatics, University of Regensburg.

10/2017

Master of Science (M. Sc.) Media Informatics. University of Regensburg. Title of the thesis: “Gefühl ist alles; Name ist Schall und Rauch.” – Der Einsatz von Sentiment Analysis in der quantitativen Dramenanalyse.

10/2013 – 2/2016

Student assistant and scientific assistant at the chair for Information Science, University of Regensburg.

4/2015

Bachelor of Arts (B. A.), Media Informatics and Information Science, University of Regensburg. Title of the thesis: Der Einfluss der Persönlichkeit auf das Informationsverhalten: Eine empirische Studie zur Suche im Web.

Research interests

Digital Humanities
Computational Literary Studies
Sentiment Analysis / Affective Computing
Natural Language Processing / Text Mining
Computer Vision
Information Behavior
Human Computer Interaction

More information:

Mail: thomas.schmidt@ur.de

Twitter: @thomasS_UniR

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.de/citations?user=FecReDsAAAAJ&hl=de

For a list of Bachelor and Master-Thesis I supervised in Media Informatics and Digital Humanities visit: https://wiki.mi.ur.de/arbeiten/alle?dataflt%5B0%5D=betreuerin_%3DThomas%20Schmidt

Teaching

Forschungsseminar Digital Humanities: Computergestützte Methoden zur Analyse von Charakteren, Sprache und Inszenierung in Film und Theater / Research seminar Digital Humanities: Compuatational Methods to analyse characters, language and staging in movies and theater
Mixed Methods in Digital Humanities Project Course
Text Mining and Natural Language Processing (Lecture & Tutorial, the course was given in English)
Introduction to Digital Humanities - Lectureship at the "Hochschule für den öffentlichen Dienst" in Munich (3 times)
Digital Humanities (Lecture & Tutorial) (2 times) (the course was given in English)
Digital Methods in Historical Research and Public History (IT-Course for the Public History Master program)
Advanced Software Engineering
Sentiment Analysis vs Affektlehre (at University of Würzburg)
Propädeutikum Medieninformatik / Preparatory Course Media Informatics (2 times)
Übung Digitalisierung und digitale Gesellschaft / Digitization and the Digital Society
Übungsleitung: Einführung in die Informatik und Medieninformatik / Introduction to Informatics and Media Informatics
Tutorium Mathematische Grundlagen (Informationswissenschaft) / Mathematical Fundamentals (Information Science) (multiple times)
Übung Vertiefungsseminar Information Retrieval / Advanced Seminar for Information Retrieval

Awards and grants:

Young researcher travel grant for the 5th conference of Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries
3rd place in the DHd 2020 Poster Slam at DHd 2020
DHd travel grant for young researchers for DHd 2020. More Information: https://dhd-blog.org/?p=13081
oXygen XML Editor Prize for young researchers at the DHN 2019 Conference (4th Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries).
DARIAH-DE Digital Humanities Award 2018 in the category "Tools und Projekte" for the master thesis “Gefühl ist alles; Name ist Schall und Rauch.” – Der Einsatz von Sentiment Analysis in der quantitativen Dramenanalyse. For more Information: https://dhd-blog.org/?p=10396
Gerda Henkel-Travel grant for PhD-Students for the DHd 2018

Invited Talks:

Schmidt, T. & Dennerlein, K. (2021). Annotating and quantifying sentiment and emotions in German plays from around 1800. Keynote lecture at the Workshop "Sentiment Analysis in Literary Studies" at the University of Graz.
- More Information: https://informationsmodellierung.uni-graz.at/de/institut/veranstaltungen/sentiment-analysis-in-literary-studies-2021/
- Link to the Video: https://youtu.be/WvJ8BvaSJCw
Schmidt, T. (2020). Katharsis: Vorstellung eines webbasierten Werkzeugs für die quantitative Dramenanalyse. Workshop "Perspektiven der Digital Humanities in der Tanz- und Theaterforschung" at the University of Leipzig . More Information: https://www.gko.uni-leipzig.de/institut-fuer-theaterwissenschaft/praxis/szenische-projekte-workshops/
Schmidt, T. (2020). Text Mining in den digitalen Geisteswissenschaften - Methoden, Projekte, Beispiele. More Information: https://www.indigo-netzwerk.de/veranstaltungen/text-mining-in-den-digitalen-geistes-und-sozialwissenschaften-methoden-tools-und-ressourcen/
Schmidt, T. (2019). Text Mining in Digital Humanities. Presentation during the INDIGO-Workshop "Digitale Methoden in der Forschung" in Munich. More Information: https://www.indigo-netzwerk.de/zweiter-workshop-digitale-methoden-in-der-forschung/
Schmidt, T. (2018). „Lexikon-basierte Verfahren der Sentiment Analysis in der Literaturwissenschaft / Lexicon-based Methods for Sentiment Analysis in Literary Studies“ at the University of Würzburg.

Reviewer:

Frontiers in Psychology (Journal)
Journal of the Japanese Association for Digital Humanities
Color Research & Application (Journal)
16th International Symposium of Information Science (ISI 2021)
Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries 2020 - Post Proceedings (DHN 2020 Post Proceedings)
3. Workshop InfDH 2020: "Methoden und Anwendungen der Computational Humanities"
Zeitschrift für digitale Geisteswissenschaften (Journal)
Mensch und Computer (2019,2020,2021), MuC (2019,2020,2021) (Poster)
Digital Humanities Conference 2020 (DH 2020)
Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries 2020 (DHN 2020)
Jahrestagung des Verbands Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum (DHd 2019, 2020, 2021)
GI-Workshop: "Software Engineering in den Digital Humanities", INF-DH 2019 (23/24.9.2019, Kassel)
GI-Workshop: "Im Spannungsfeld zwischen Tool-Building und Forschung auf Augenhöhe – Informatik und die Digital Humanities", INF-DH 2018 (25.9.2018, Berlin)

Other:

Organization of the 16th International Symposium of Information Science. Virtual Conference. More Information: https://isi2021.net/
Schmidt, Dennerlein & Wolff. (2020). Emotions in Drama - Emotionen im Drama (EmoDrama). Poster presentation at the Digital Humanities Day Leipzig.
- More Information: https://fdhl.info/dhdl-2020/
- Link to poster: https://fdhl.info/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Poster_DINA4.pdf
- Link to video for poster slam: https://youtu.be/9DdybUzN92E
Schmidt, T. (2019). Multimodal Sentiment Analysis. Presentation at the Workshop "Towards New Horizons in Digital Humanities: Multimodal Approaches for Visual Media" (15 April - 16 April, 2019). Passau, Germany. For more information: Book of Abstracts
Participation at the 30th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLI), (6 August - 17 August, 2018). Sofia, Bulgaria.

Publications:

Schmidt, T., Dennerlein, K., & Wolff, C. (2021). Towards a Corpus of Historical German Plays with Emotion Annotations. In 3rd Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge (LDK 2021). Schloss Dagstuhl-Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik.
Schmidt, T. & Wolff, C., eds. (2021) Information between Data and Knowledge: Information Science and its Neighbors from Data Science to Digital Humanities. Schriften zur Informationswissenschaft, 74. Werner Hülsbusch, Glückstadt. ISBN 978-3-86488-172-5.
Schmidt, T., Salomon, E., Elsweiler, D. & Wolff, C. (2021). Information Behavior towards False Information and “Fake News” on Facebook: The Influence of Gender, User Type and Trust in Social Media.. In: Schmidt, T. & Wolff, C. (Eds.), Information between Data and Knowledge. Information Science and its Neighbors from Data Science to Digital Humanities. Proceedings of the 16th International Symposium of Information Science (ISI 2021). Glückstadt: Verlag Werner Hülsbusch. (pp. 125—154). DOI: 10.5283/epub.44942
Schmidt, T., Dangel, J. & Wolff, C. (2021). SentText: A Tool for Lexicon-based Sentiment Analysis in Digital Humanities. In: Schmidt, T. & Wolff, C. (Eds.), Information between Data and Knowledge. Information Science and its Neighbors from Data Science to Digital Humanities. Proceedings of the 16th International Symposium of Information Science (ISI 2021). Glückstadt: Verlag Werner Hülsbusch. (pp. 156—172). DOI: 10.5283/epub.44943
Schmidt, T., Engl, I., Halbhuber, D., & Wolff, C. (2020). Comparing Live Sentiment Annotation of Movies via Arduino and a Slider with Textual Annotation of Subtitles. In Post-Proceedings of the 5th Conference Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries (DHN 2020) (pp. 212-223).
Schmidt, T. & Halbhuber, D. (2020). Live Sentiment Annotation of Movies via Arduino and a Slider. In Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries 5th Conference (DHN 2020). Late Breaking Poster.
Schmidt, T. & Kleindienst, N. (2020). Investigating the Transformation of Original Work by the Online Fan Fiction Community – A Case Study for Supernatural. Digital Practices. Reading, Writing and Evaluation on the Web. University of Basel, Switzerland.
Schmidt, T., Mosiienko, A., Faber, R., Herzog, J., & Wolff, C. (2020). Utilizing HTML‐analysis and computer vision on a corpus of website screenshots to investigate design developments on the web. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 57(1), e392.
Moßburger, L., Wende, F., Brinkmann, K., & Schmidt, T. (2020, December). Exploring Online Depression Forums via Text Mining: A Comparison of Reddit and a Curated Online Forum. In Proceedings of the Fifth Social Media Mining for Health Applications Workshop & Shared Task (pp. 70-81).
Schmidt, T., Schlindwein, M., Lichtner, K., & Wolff, C. (2020). Investigating the Relationship Between Emotion Recognition Software and Usability Metrics. i-com, 19(2), 139-151.
Schmidt, T., Engl, I., Herzog. J. & Judisch, L. (2020). Towards an Analysis of Gender in Video Game Culture: Exploring Gender-specific Vocabulary in Video Game Magazines. In Proceedings of the Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries 5th Conference (DHN 2020). Riga, Latvia.
Schmidt, T., Kaindl, F. & Wolff, C. (2020). Distant Reading of Religious Online Communities: A Case Study for Three Religious Forums on Reddit. In Proceedings of the Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries 5th Conference (DHN 2020). Riga, Latvia.
Schmidt, T., Hartl, P., Ramsauer, D., Fischer, T., Hilzenthaler, A. & Wolff, C. (2020). Acquisition and Analysis of a Meme Corpus to Investigate Web Culture. In Digital Humanities Conference 2020 (DH 2020). Virtual Conference.
Schmidt, T., Kaindl, F. & Wolff, C. (2020). Visualizing Collocations in Religious Online Forums. In Digital Humanities Conference 2020 (DH 2020). Virtual Conference.
Schmidt, T., Bauer, M., Habler, F., Heuberger, H., Pilsl, F. & Wolff, C. (2020). Der Einsatz von Distant Reading auf einem Korpus deutschsprachiger Songtexte. In Book of Abstracts, DHd 2020 (pp. 296-299). Paderborn, Deutschland. doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3666690
Ortloff, A., Windl, M., Güntner, L. & Schmidt, T. (2020). BeyondTheNotes: Ein Tool zur quantitativen Analyse in den digitalen Musikwissenschaften. In Book of Abstracts, DHd 2020 (pp. 282-286). Paderborn, Deutschland. doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3666690
Schmidt, T. (2019). Distant Reading Sentiments and Emotions in Historic German Plays. In Abstract Booklet, DH_Budapest_2019 (pp. 57-60). Budapest, Hungary.
Schmidt, T., Winterl, B., Maul, M., Schark, A., Vlad, A. & Wolff, C., (2019). Inter-Rater Agreement and Usability: A Comparative Evaluation of Annotation Tools for Sentiment Annotation. In: Draude, C., Lange, M. & Sick, B. (Hrsg.), INFORMATIK 2019: 50 Jahre Gesellschaft für Informatik – Informatik für Gesellschaft (Workshop-Beiträge). Bonn: Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.. (S. 121-133). DOI: 10.18420/inf2019_ws12
Schmidt, T., Jakob, M. & Wolff, C., (2019). Annotator-Centered Design: Towards a Tool for Sentiment and Emotion Annotation. In: Draude, C., Lange, M. & Sick, B. (Hrsg.), INFORMATIK 2019: 50 Jahre Gesellschaft für Informatik – Informatik für Gesellschaft (Workshop-Beiträge). Bonn: Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.. (S. 77-85). DOI: 10.18420/inf2019_ws08
Schmidt, T., Wittmann, V. & Wolff, C., (2019). The Influence of Participants’ Personality on Quantitative and Qualitative Metrics in Usability Testing. In: Alt, F., Bulling, A. & Döring, T. (Hrsg.), Mensch und Computer 2019 - Tagungsband. New York: ACM. DOI: 10.1145/3340764.3340787
Ortloff, A.-M., Windl, M., Güntner, L. & Schmidt, T., (2019). Towards a Graphical User Interface for Quantitative Analysis in Digital Musicology. Mensch und Computer 2019 - Workshopband. Bonn: Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.. DOI: 10.18420/muc2019-ws-568
Ortloff, A.-M., Güntner, L., Windl, M., Schmidt, T., Kocur, M. & Wolff, C., (2019). SentiBooks: Enhancing Audiobooks via Affective Computing and Smart Light Bulbs. In: Alt, F., Bulling, A. & Döring, T. (Hrsg.), Mensch und Computer 2019 - Tagungsband. New York: ACM. DOI: 10.1145/3340764.3345368
Hartl, P., Fischer, T., Hilzenthaler, A., Kocur, M. & Schmidt, T., (2019). AudienceAR - Utilising Augmented Reality and Emotion Tracking to Address Fear of Speech. In: Alt, F., Bulling, A. & Döring, T. (Hrsg.), Mensch und Computer 2019 - Tagungsband. New York: ACM. DOI: 10.1145/3340764.3345380
Halbhuber, D., Fehle, J., Kalus, A., Seitz, K., Kocur, M., Schmidt, T. & Wolff, C., (2019). The Mood Game - How to use the player’s affective state in a shoot’em up avoiding frustration and boredom. In: Alt, F., Bulling, A. & Döring, T. (Hrsg.), Mensch und Computer 2019 - Tagungsband. New York: ACM. DOI: 10.1145/3340764.3345369
Schmidt, T., Burghardt, M., Dennerlein, K. & Wolff, C. (2019). Katharsis - A Tool for Computational Drametrics. In: Book of Abstracts, Digital Humanities Conference 2019 (DH 2019). Utrecht, Netherlands.
Schmidt, T. & Wolff, C. (2019). Wissenstransfer: Digitalisierung. Einzigartiges Kooperationsprojekt zu Datenbeständen über NS-Opfer. Blick in die Wissenschaft, 39, 38-40.
Schmidt, T., Burghardt, M., Dennerlein, K. & Wolff, C. (2019). Sentiment Annotation in Lessing’s Plays: Towards a Language Resource for Sentiment Analysis on German Literary Texts. In: 2nd Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge (LDK 2019). LDK Posters. Leipzig, Germany.
Schmidt, T., Burghardt, M. & Wolff, C. (2019). Towards Multimodal Sentiment Analysis of Historic Plays: A Case Study with Text and Audio for Lessing’s Emilia Galotti. In: Proceedings of the DHN (DH in the Nordic Countries) Conference (pp. 405-414) Copenhagen, Denmark.
Auer, A., Berteloot, P., Mielke, B., Schikora, C., Schmidt, T. & Wolff, C. (2019) Stilometrie in der Rechtslinguistik. In: IRIS - Proceedings of the 22nd International Legal Informatics Symposium (pp. 375-385).
Schmidt, T., Burghardt, M. & Wolff, C., (2018). Herausforderungen für Sentiment Analysis-Verfahren bei literarischen Texten. In: Burghardt, M. & Müller-Birn, C. (Hrsg.), INF-DH-2018. Bonn: Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V..
Böhm, P. Hansbauer, A. Schmidt, T. & Wolff, C. (2018). Subjektive Komplexität und Usability bei Webshops. In: Dachselt, R. & Weber, G. (Hrsg.), Mensch und Computer 2018 - Tagungsband (pp. 267-271). Bonn: Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.
Schmidt, T. & Burghardt, M. (2018). An Evaluation of Lexicon-based Sentiment Analysis Techniques for the Plays of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. In: Proceedings of the Second Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature (pp. 139-149). Santa Fe, New Mexico: Association for Computational Linguistics.
Schmidt, T., Burghardt, M. & Dennerlein, K. (2018). Sentiment Annotation of Historic German Plays: An Empirical Study on Annotation Behavior. In: Sandra Kübler, Heike Zinsmeister (eds.), Proceedings of the Workshop on Annotation in Digital Humanities (annDH 2018) (pp. 47-52). Sofia, Bulgaria.
Schmidt, T. & Burghardt, M. (2018). Toward a Tool for Sentiment Analysis for German Historic Plays. In: Piotrowski, M. (ed.), COMHUM 2018: Book of Abstracts for the Workshop on Computational Methods in the Humanities 2018 (pp. 46-48). Lausanne, Switzerland: Laboratoire laussannois d'informatique et statistique textuelle.
Schmidt, T., & Wolff, C. (2018). The Influence of User Interface Attributes on Aesthetics. i-com, 17(1), 41-55.
Schmidt, T., Burghardt, M. & Dennerlein, K. (2018). „Kann man denn auch nicht lachend sehr ernsthaft sein?“ – Zum Einsatz von Sentiment Analyse-Verfahren für die quantitative Untersuchung von Lessings Dramen. In Book of Abstracts, DHd 2018.
Schmidt, T. & Wolff, C. (2017). Der Einfluss von User Interface-Attributen auf die Ästhetik. In: Burghardt, M., Wimmer, R., Wolff, C. & Womser-Hacker, C. (Hrsg.), Mensch und Computer 2017 - Tagungsband (pp. 61-72). Regensburg: Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.
Burghardt, M., Spanner, S., Schmidt, T., Fuchs, F., Buchhop, K., Nickl, M., & Wolff, C. (2017). Digitale Erschließung einer Sammlung von Volksliedern aus dem deutschsprachigen Raum. In Book of Abstracts, DHd 2017.
Schmidt, T., & Wolff, C. (2016). Personality and information behavior in web search. In: Proceedings of the 79th Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIST 2016).
Burghardt, M., Dennerlein, K., Schmidt, T., Mühlenfeld, J. & Wolff, C. (2016). Katharsis – Ein Werkzeug für die quantitative Dramenanalyse. In CLARIN-D Forum CA3. Verfügbar unter www.clarin-d.de/de/konferenz-abstracts/369-katharsis-ein-werkzeug-fuer-die-quantitative-dramenanalyse
Schmidt, T. (2016). Der Einfluss der Persönlichkeit auf das Informationsverhalten: Eine empirische Studie zur Suche im Web. Studia Informatica Ratisbonensis 1, Bachelorarbeit, Universität Regensburg. [pdf] [bib]
Schmidt, T., & Wolff, C. (2015). Genderspezifische Unterschiede im Informationsverhalten am Beispiel E-Commerce. Information-Wissenschaft & Praxis, 66(1), 65-76.