Karsdorp, dr. F.B. (Folgert)
Senior Researcher Oral Culture
E-mail:
folgert.karsdorp@meertens.knaw.nl
Telephone:
020 46 28 525
Research group
Ethnology and Oral CultureBiography
Folgert Karsdorp is Senior Researcher and Head of the research group Oral Culture at the Meertens Institute. He is specialized in Computational Humanities and Cultural Evolution at the Meertens Institute, affiliated with the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. He delves into the intricacies of cultural change and pioneers methods to quantify cultural diversity and complexity. A significant aspect of his research is understanding and accounting for biases in these quantifications. Folgert harnesses computational models from fields such as Machine Learning, Cultural Evolution, and Ecology to aid his investigations. Beyond research, he has a passion for teaching computer programming, especially within the Humanities context. He is the author of the book “Humanities Data Analysis: Case Studies with Python”, published by Princeton University Press, which guides readers on leveraging Python for analyzing humanities data.
Key publications
- Kandler, Anne, Laurel Fogarty, and Folgert Karsdorp. 2023. “The Interplay between Age Structure and Cultural Transmission.” Plos Computational Biology, no. 19, 7: e1011297.
- Kestemont, Mike, Folgert Karsdorp, Elisabeth de Bruijn, Matthew Driscoll, Katarzyna A. Kapitan, Pádraig Ó Macháin, Daniel Sawyer, Remco Sleiderink, and Anne Chao. 2022. “Forgotten Books: The Application of Unseen Species Models to the Survival of Culture.” Science, no. 6582, 375: 765–69.
- Karsdorp, Folgert, Mike Kestemont, and Allen Riddell. 2021. Humanities Data Analysis. Case Studies with Python. Princeton University Press.
Publications
- contribution to journal (article)
- contribution to edited volume
- contribution to conference
- book (author)
- book (editor)
- thesis
- conference participation
- public engagement
2024
Nielbo, K. L. Karsdorp, F. B. Wevers, M. Lassche, A. Baglini, R. Kestemont, M. & Tahmasebi, N. (2024). Quantitative Text Analysis. Nature Reviews Methods Primers, 4(25), 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43586-024-00302-w
2023
Kandler, A. Fogarty, L. & Karsdorp, F. B. (2023). The interplay between age structure and cultural transmission. PLoS Computational Biology, 19(7), 1-21. Article e1011297. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011297
2022
Kestemont, M. Karsdorp, F. B. de Bruijn, E. Driscoll, M. Kapitan, K. Ó Macháin, P. Sawyer, D. Sleiderink, R. & Chao, A. (2022). Forgotten books: The application of unseen species models to the survival of culture. Science, 375(6582), 765-769. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abl7655
2020
Karsdorp, F. B. Manjavacas, E. Fonteyn, L. & Kestemont, M. (2020). Classifying Evolutionary Forces in Language Change Using Neural Networks. Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2, 1-40. Article e50. https://doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2020.52
2019
Karsdorp, F. B. & Fonteyn, L. (2019). Cultural entrenchment of folktales is encoded in language. Palgrave Communications, 5, Article 25. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-019-0234-9
Haverals, W. Karsdorp, F. B. & Kestemont, M. (2019). Data-Driven Syllabification for Middle Dutch. Digital Medievalist, 1(2), 1-23. https://doi.org/10.16995/dm.83
Kestemont, M. & Karsdorp, F. B. (2019). Het Atlantis van de Middelnederlandse ridderepiek: Een schatting van het tekstverlies met methodes uit de ecodiversiteit. Spiegel der Letteren, 61(3), 271. https://doi.org/10.2143/SDL.61.3.3287540
Karsdorp, F. B. Manjavacas, E. & Kestemont, M. (2019). Keepin’ it real: Linguistic models of authenticity judgments for artificially generated rap lyrics. PLoS One, 14(10), Article e0224152. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0224152
Haverals, W. Karsdorp, F. B. & Kestemont, M. (2019). Rekenen op ritme: Een datagedreven oplossing voor het automatisch scanderen van de historische lyriek in de DBNL. Vooys, 37(3), 6.
Karsdorp, F. B. (2019). Willekeur in culturele verandering. Tijdschrift voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde, 135(4), 303-315.
2017
Karsdorp, F. B. Manjavacas, E. Burtenshaw, B. & Kestemont, M. (2017). Synthetische literatuur: neurale netwerken als coauteur. DIXIT: tijdschrift over taal- en spraaktechnologie, 14, 18. https://notas.nl/dixit/dixit_2017_ai.pdf
2016
Kestemont, M. Stover, J. Koppel, M. Karsdorp, F. B. & Daelemans, W. (2016). Authenticating the writings of Julius Caesar. Expert Systems with Applications, 63, 86-96.
Meder, T. Karsdorp, F. B. Nguyen, D. Theune, M. Trieschnigg, D. & Muiser, I. E. C. (2016). Automatic Enrichment and Classification of Folktales in the Dutch Folktale Database. The Journal of American Folklore, 129(511), 78-96.
Karsdorp, F. B. & Van den Bosch, A. (2016). The Structure and Evolution of Story Networks. Royal Society Open Science, 3. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.160071
2015
Karsdorp, F. B. van der Meulen, M. Meder, T. & van den Bosch, A. (2015). MOMFER: A Search Engine of Thompson's Motif-Index of Folk Literature. Folklore, 126(1), 37-52. https://doi.org/10.1080/0015587X.2015.1006954
2013
Karsdorp, F. B. (2013). Het is groen en leeft nog lang en gelukkig: Classificatie van volksverhaalgenres op basis van formules. Tijdschrift voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde, 129(4), 274-288.
2012
Karsdorp, F. B. & Hüning, M. (2012). De relatie tussen schema's en analogische verbindingen. Nederlandse Taalkunde, 17(2), 261-267. https://doi.org/10.5117/NEDTAA2012.2.DISC530
2012
Karsdorp, F. B. van Kranenburg, P. Meder, T. Trieschnigg, D. & van den Bosch, A. (2012). In search of an appropriate abstraction level for motif annotations. In M. Finlayson (Ed.), Proceedings of the 2012 Workshop on Computational Models of Narrative (pp. 22-28). http://www.elab-oralculture.nl/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/CMN.2012.karsdorp.pdf
2022
Karsdorp, F. B. Manjavacas, E. & Fonteyn, L. (2022). Introducing Functional Diversity: A Novel Approach to Lexical Diversity in (Historical) Corpora. In F. Karsdorp, A. Lassche, & K. Nielbo (Eds.), Proceedings of the Computational Humanities Research Conference 2022 (Vol. 3290, pp. 114-126). CEUR Workshop Proceedings. https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3290/short_paper2780.pdf
Wevers, M. Karsdorp, F. B. & van Lottum, J. (2022). What Shall We Do With the Unseen Sailor? Estimating the Size of the Dutch East India Company Using an Unseen Species Model. In F. Karsdorp, A. Lassche, & K. Nielbo (Eds.), Proceedings of the Computational Humanities Research Conference 2022 (Vol. 3290, pp. 189-197). CEUR Workshop Proceedings. https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3290/short_paper1793.pdf
2020
Manjavacas, E. Karsdorp, F. B. & Kestemont, M. (2020). A Statistical Foray into Contextual Aspects of Intertextuality. In F. Karsdorp, B. McGillivray, A. Nerghes, & M. Wevers (Eds.), Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Humanities Research (CHR 2020) (Vol. 2723, pp. 77-96). CEUR Workshop Proceedings. http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2723/long28.pdf
Kestemont, M. & Karsdorp, F. B. (2020). Estimating the Loss of Medieval Literature with an Unseen Species Model from Ecodiversity. In F. Karsdorp, B. McGillivray, A. Nerghes, & M. Wevers (Eds.), Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Humanities Research (CHR 2020) (Vol. 2723, pp. 44-55) http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2723/short10.pdf
2019
Manjavacas, E. Kestemont, M. & Karsdorp, F. B. (2019). A Robot’s Street Credibility: Modeling authenticity judgments for artificially generated Hip-Hop lyrics. In Proceedings of the 2019 Digital Humanities conference https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0294.html
Manjavacas, E. Kestemont, M. & Karsdorp, F. B. (2019). Generation of Hip-Hop Lyrics with Hierarchical Modeling and Conditional Templates. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG)
Karsdorp, F. B. van Kranenburg, P. & Manjavacas, E. (2019). Learning Similarity Metrics for Melody Retrieval. In Proceedings of the 20th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (pp. 478-485)
Lassche, A. Karsdorp, F. B. & Stronks, E. (2019). Repetition and Popularity in Early Modern Songs. In DH 2019: Proceedings of the 2019 Digital Humanities Conference https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0235.html
2017
Manjavacas, E. Karsdorp, F. B. Burtenshaw, B. & Kestemont, M. (2017). Synthetic Literature: Writing Science Fiction in a Co-Creative Process. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Creativity in Natural Language Generation (CC-NLG 2017) (pp. 29). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W17-3904
2016
Kestemont, M. Stover, J. Koppel, M. Karsdorp, F. B. & Daelemans, W. (2016). Authorship Verification with the Minmax Metric. http://dh2016.adho.org/abstracts/402
2015
Karsdorp, F. B. van der Meulen, M. Meder, T. & van den Bosch, A. (2015). Animacy Detection in Stories. In M. Finlayson, B. Miller, A. Lieto, & R. Ronfard (Eds.), Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Models of Narrative (CMN’15) (pp. 82-97). (OpenAccess Series in Informatics).. https://doi.org/10.4230/OASIcs.CMN.2015.82
Karsdorp, F. B. Kestemont, M. Schöch, C. & van den Bosch, A. (2015). The Love Equation: Computational Modeling of Romantic Relationships in French Classical Drama. In M. Finlayson, B. Miller, A. Lieto, & R. Ronfard (Eds.), Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Models of Narrative (CMN’15) (pp. 98–107). (OpenAccess Series in Informatics). OASICS Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, Dagstuhl Publishing, Germany. https://doi.org/10.4230/OASIcs.CMN.2015.98
2014
van Kranenburg, P. & Karsdorp, F. B. (2014). Cadence Detection in Western Traditional Stanzaic Songs using Melodic and Textual Features. In H.-M. Wang, Y.-H. Yang, & J. H. Lee (Eds.), Proceedings of the 15th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (pp. 391-396).
Kestemont, M. Karsdorp, F. B. & Düring, M. (2014). Mining the Twentieth Century's History from the Time Magazine Corpus. In Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities (LaTeCH) (pp. 62). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).
2013
Karsdorp, F. B. & van den Bosch, A. (2013). Identifying Motifs in Folktales using Topic Models. In Proceedings of the 22 Annual Belgian-Dutch Conference on Machine Learning (pp. 41-49)
2012
Karsdorp, F. B. van Kranenburg, P. Meder, T. & van den Bosch, A. (2012). Casting a Spell: Identification and Ranking of Actors in Folktales. In F. Mambrini, M. Passarotti, & C. Sporleder (Eds.), Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Annotation of Corpora for Research in het Humanities (ACRH-2) (pp. 39-50). Edicoes Cilibri.
2022
Karsdorp, F. Lassche, A. & Nielbo, K. L. (Eds.) (2022). Proceedings of the Computational Humanities Research Conference 2022. CEUR Workshop Proceedings. https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3290/
2021
Ehrmann, M. Karsdorp, F. Wevers, M. Andrews, T. L. Burghardt, M. Kestemont, M. Manjavacas, E. Piotrowski, M. & van Zundert, J. J. (Eds.) (2021). Proceedings of the Conference on Computational Humanities Research 2021. CEUR Workshop Proceedings. http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2989/
2020
Karsdorp, F. B. McGillivray, B. Wevers, M. & Nerghes, A. (Eds.) (2020). Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Humanities Research. CEUR Workshop Proceedings. http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2723/
2016
Karsdorp, F. B. (2016). Retelling Stories: A Computational-Evolutionary Perspective. [PhD thesis, Radboud University Nijmegen]. http://www.karsdorp.io/retelling-stories
2023
F.B. Karsdorp (2023). Forgotten knights, unseen sailors, and unapprehended criminals: applying unseen species models to the survival of culture. 13-06-2023.
2022
F.B. Karsdorp (2022). Forgotten Books The application of unseen species models to the survival of culture. 19-09-2022.
F.B. Karsdorp (2022). Forgotten Books The application of unseen species models to the survival of culture. 20-06-2022.
F.B. Karsdorp (2022). Python for the Humanities. 24-05-2022.
2021
F.B. Karsdorp (2021). Unseen Species Models from Ecology to Estimate the Losses of Medieval Literature: Advances in an International Comparison. 08-07-2021. (International Medieval Conference
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F.B. Karsdorp (2021). The Birds in the Bush. What can Occupancy Models from Ecology Teach us about the Survival of Medieval Literature?. 23-06-2021. ( The Human in Digital Humanities)
F.B. Karsdorp, Mike Kestemont (2021). Libraries as book traps. Statistical methods from ecology to study the survival of historic literature. 06-05-2021. (Old Books and New Technologies: Medieval Books and the Digital Humanities in the Low Countries)
F.B. Karsdorp (2021). Estimating the loss of medieval literature with methods from ecology. 10-03-2021.
F.B. Karsdorp (2021). Estimating the loss of medieval literature with methods from ecology. 21-02-2021.
2020
F.B. Karsdorp (2020). Bias, diversity and survival. Can statistical methods from ecology estimate the loss of medieval literature?. 13-11-2020.
F.B. Karsdorp (2020). Blind or directed? Cultural Evolution of Children’s Books. 22-10-2020. (Children's Literature and Digital Humanities)
F.B. Karsdorp (2020). Estimating the loss of medieval literature with unseen species model from ecodiversity. 08-09-2020. (Dark Archives 20/20: A Voyage into the Medieval Unread and Unreadable)
Barbara Bordalejo, F.B. Karsdorp, Daniel O'Donnell, K.H. van Dalen-Oskam, Basten Stokhuyzen (2020). Check your privilege: The digital privilege game. 31-05-2020. (CSDH-SCHN 2020 Congress)
2019
F.B. Karsdorp (2019). Cultural entrenchment of folktales is encoded in language. 28-02-2019.
F.B. Karsdorp (2019). Cultural entrenchment of folktales is encoded in language. 15-02-2019. (Interdisciplinary Workshop: Folk and Fairy Tales Digital)
F.B. Karsdorp, Mike Kestemont (2019). Keeping it real: the artificial synthesis of hiphop lyrics. 12-02-2019.
2018
Melvin Wevers, F.B. Karsdorp, Milan Lange, van (2018). De analyse van emoties en betekenis in tekst en beeld. 15-06-2018. (De toestand van het verleden)
F.B. Karsdorp, Mike Kestemont (2018). Synthesizing Humanities: explaining complex models through simple data synthesis. 08-06-2018. (Digital Humanities Benelux Conference 2018 )
2017
F.B. Karsdorp (2017). Topic Modelling - An Empirical Approach to Theme Detection. 13-10-2017. (Digital Youth in East Asia: Theoretical, Methodological and Technical Issues)
F.B. Karsdorp (2017). CLARIN tools and techniques for Digital Humanities. 18-06-2017. (Language, Data and Knowlegde)
F.B. Karsdorp (2017). Devils, fairies and dragons: Character bias in the cultural success of fairy tales. 10-03-2017. (14th SIKS/Twente Seminar on Searching and Ranking, University of Twente)
F.B. Karsdorp (2017). Text Analysis with Python. 27-01-2017. (Digital Humanies Second Library Lab)
2015
F.B. Karsdorp, Antal Van den Bosch, Iris Hendrickx, Maarten De Gompel (2015). What makes dream texts dreamy?. 09-06-2015. (Digital Humanities Benelux Conference 2015)
M. van der Meulen, F.B. Karsdorp, Theo Meder, A. van den Bosch (2015). Animacy Detection in Stories. 26-05-2015. (Sixth International Workshop on Computational Models of Narrative)
F.B. Karsdorp, M. van der Meulen, Theo Meder, Antal Van den Bosch (2015). Animacy Detection in Stories. 26-05-2015. (Sixth International Workshop on Computational Models of Narrative)
F.B. Karsdorp, Mike Kestemont, Christof Schöch (2015). The Love Equation: Computational Modeling of Romantic Relationships in French Classical Drama. 26-05-2015. (Sixth International Workshop on Computational Models of Narrative)
F.B. Karsdorp (2015). CLIN25. 05-02-2015. (CLIN25)
2019
F.B. Karsdorp (2019). Koeien in de ruimte. 11-11-2019. (Publiekssymposium De Boerderij)
2017
F.B. Karsdorp (2017). Schrijven met een Robot. 22-11-2017.
F.B. Karsdorp (2017). De techniek achter AsiBot, de literaire robot. 20-11-2017.
F.B. Karsdorp (2017). Een literaire robot als schrijfhulp. 12-10-2017.
F.B. Karsdorp (2017). Writing science-fiction with the help of a literary robot. 03-10-2017.
F.B. Karsdorp (2017). Synthetic Literature. Writing Science-Fiction in a Co-creative Process. 21-07-2017.
F.B. Karsdorp (2017). Retelling Stories: Transmission Biases in the Diffusion of Stories. 13-04-2017.
2015
F.B. Karsdorp (2015). Python for Lunch. 01-10-2015.