Publications

35+ peer reviewed works, grouped by type. Citations on Google Scholar.

Journal & Proceedings Papers (peer reviewed)

2026 Teich, M., Cypionka, A., Haider, T., Rehbein, M. Measuring Nuclear Democracy: A Large-Scale Analysis of German Nuclear Energy Discourse. MDPI Journal (accepted).
2026 Haider, T., Ruiz Fabo, P., Baumann, T., Martinez Canton, C. Enjambement as Syntactic Disruption in Historical and Contemporary German and Spanish Poetry. CHR Journal (under review).
2026 Sela, A., Haider, T., Plechac, P. Mind the Meter: Systematic Language Variation in Poetry Corpora Confounds Computational Analysis. DSH Journal (under review).
2025 Haider, T., Perschl, T., Rehbein, M. Quantification of Biodiversity from Historical Survey Text with LLM-based Best-Worst Scaling. EcoNLP @ NoDaLiDa 2025.
2025 Gittel, B., Haider, T. The Ongoing Birth of the Narrator: Empirical Evidence for the Emergence of the Author-Narrator Distinction in Literary Criticism. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities.
2025 Plecháč, P., Sela, A., Cinková, S., De Sisto, M., Nugues, L., Kočnik, N., Kolár, R., Haider, T. Named Entity Recognition and Linking in PoeTree Corpora. Studia Metrica et Poetica, 12(2), 7–18.
2024 Haider, T. A Large Annotated Reference Corpus of New High German Poetry. LREC-COLING 2024, Torino.
2024 Plecháč, P., Cinková, S., Kolár, R., Sela, A., De Sisto, M., Nugues, L., Haider, T. PoeTree: Poetry Treebanks in Czech, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. Research Data Journal for the Humanities and Social Sciences.
2024 Ostrowski, A., Haider, T., Berger, D., Büttner, B., Herbers, K., Rehbein, M. Annotating Formulaic Language in 12th Century Papal Charters. Formulaic Language Conference, Amsterdam.
2021 Haider, T. Metrical Tagging in the Wild: Building and Annotating Poetry Corpora with Rhythmic Features. EACL 2021, Main Volume.
2021 Wöckener, J., Haider, T., Miller, T., Nguyen, T., Nguyen, T., Vu Pham, M., Belouadi, J., Eger, S. End-to-end style-conditioned poetry generation: What does it take to learn from examples alone?. 5th SIGHUM Workshop, EMNLP.
2021 Thissen, B., Schlotz, W., Abel, C., Scharinger, M., Merrill, J., Haider, T., Menninghaus, W. 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., Menninghaus, W. PO-EMO: Conceptualization, Annotation, and Modeling of Aesthetic Emotions in German and English Poetry. LREC 2020, Marseille.
2020 Rother, D., Haider, T., Eger, S. CMCE at SemEval-2020 Task 1: Clustering on Manifolds of Contextualized Embeddings to Detect Historical Meaning Shifts. SemEval @ COLING 2020, Barcelona.
2019 Haider, T., Eger, S. Semantic Change and Emerging Tropes in a Large Corpus of New High German Poetry. 1st Historical Language Change Workshop @ ACL, Florence.
2019 Birnbaum, D.J., Bories, A.S., Haider, T.N., Sarv, M. Plotting Poetry 3. Conference report. Studia Metrica et Poetica 6.2.
2018 Haider, T., Kuhn, J. Supervised Rhyme Detection with Siamese Recurrent Networks. SIGHUM Workshop @ COLING 2018, Santa Fe.
2017 Haider, T., Palmer, A. Modeling Communicative Purpose with Functional Style: Corpus and Features for German Genre and Register Analysis. 1st Workshop on Stylistic Variation @ EMNLP, Copenhagen (also RANLP).
2014 Bingel, J., Haider, T. Named Entity Tagging a Very Large Unbalanced Corpus: Training and Evaluating NE Classifiers. LREC.

Extended DH Abstracts (peer reviewed)

2026 Trilcke, P., Barkey, S., Schumacher, M., Börner, I., Milling, C., Skorinkin, D., Sluyter-Gäthje, H., Haider, T., et al. Introducing EcoCor: An Open Infrastructure for Digital Ecocriticism. DH2026, Korea (accepted).
2026 Haider, T., Cypionka, A., Teich, M. Linking Speakers of the German Parliament to Wikidata: Scope and Coverage of Metadata. EADH2026, Kraków (accepted).
2026 Pérez, A., Ruiz Fabo, P., Haider, T., Rodríguez, P., Gamallo, P. O GalAPAgoS (Galician Automatic Poetry Analysis System) comeza a camiñar. CLARIAH-GAL workshop (accepted).
2026 Haider, T. Towards Affective Analysis of Animals in Poetry. DHd2026, Vienna. Poster.
2025 Sela, A., Haider, T., Plechac, P. The Unnatural Language of Poetic Meters, Or Why You Should Be Afraid of Counting Words. DH2025, Lisbon. Long Talk.
2024 Haider, T., Gassner, S., Rehbein, M. Quo Vadis Fachbereiche und Schulen der DHd: Netzwerkanalyse der DHd Abstracts 2014–2023. DHd2024, Passau. Poster.
2023 bei der Wieden, G., Bathurst, T., Haider, T. More Social, Less Religious: Trends of Hardcover Fiction Titles on the New York Times Bestseller List 2000–2020. DH2023, Graz. Long Talk.
2023 Haider, T., Schennach, S., Thelen, J., Wesche, J. Barockpoetik als Wikibase: Eine Datenbank zu konfessionsgeschichtlichen Aspekten in deutschen Barockpoetiken. DHd2023, Trier/Luxembourg. Poster.
2022 Zylla, M., Haider, T. Distant Reading of the German Coalition Deal: Recognizing Policy Positions with BERT-based Text Classification. DH2022, Tokyo. Poster.
2022 Haider, T., Gittel, B. Lexical Semantic Change in Literary Criticism. DH2022, Tokyo. Short Talk.
2020 Haider, T., van Dyk-Hemming, A., Eberhardt, J. Extracting a Social Network of Musicologists. DH2020, Ottawa. Poster.
2020 Plechac, P., Haider, T. Mapping Topic Evolution Across Poetic Traditions. DH2020, Ottawa. Short Talk.
2019 Haider, T. Diachronic Topics in New High German Poetry. DH2019, Utrecht. Long Talk.

Books, Edited Volumes & Chapters

2025 Reiter, N., Haider, T., Kababgi, D., Buschmeier, H. (eds.) Book of Abstracts — DHd 2025. Under Construction. Bielefeld.
2025 Cotten, A., Haider, T. Klangabbildungen (Sound Mapping). In: Bajohr, H. & Cotten, A. (eds.), Schreiben nach KI, Matthes & Seitz. ISBN 978-3-7518-7030-6.
2024 Weis, J., Haider, T., Bunout, E. (eds.) Book of Abstracts — DHd2024. Quo Vadis DH?. Passau.
2023 Haider, T. A Computational Stylistics of Poetry: Distant Reading and Modeling of German and English Verse. Doctoral Thesis, University of Stuttgart.
2015 Leidenfrost-Burth, L., Haider, T., Wöllstein, A. Rechtschreibwortschatz für Erwachsene (Orthographic Vocabulary for Adults). Winter Verlag Heidelberg. ISBN 978-3-8253-7535-5.

Work in Progress

2027 Haider, T., Perschl, T., Parker van Dam, K., List, J.M. Automatic Scaling of Valence Norms in 12 Languages: Performance and Bias. Prepared for EACL 2027.
2027 Haider, T. Agency as Verb Semantics for Non-Humans in Nature Writing. Prepared for CHR 2027.
— Haider, T. The Ecocritical Canon. Venue to be determined.
— Haider, T. Bias of Language Models towards Animals in Poetry: Sentiment and Connotation. Venue to be determined.