Tinghui Duan, M.A.

since 02.2025 Research employee at the Gotha Research Centre of the University of Erfurt, DFG project "DFG Project Research Data Infrastructure Historical Sources" (HisQu)

08.2022 - 07.2024 Research employee at the Trier Centre for Digital Humanities (TCDH)

10.2018 - 06.2022 Research Training Group (DFG) "Model Romanticism" at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena

07.2018 - 09.2018 Research employee at the Chair of Computational Linguistics (Professor Dr Udo Hahn) at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena

09.2017 - 06.2018 Research Assistant at the Chair of Computational Linguistics (Professor Dr Udo Hahn) at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena

04.2015 - 06.2018 Research assistant at the Chair of German as a Foreign and Second Language (Professor Dr Bernt Ahrenholz) at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena

10.2011 - 05.2015 Master's programme German as a Foreign and Second Language at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena

10.2012 - 09.2013 Erasmus at the University of Vienna, specialising in German as a foreign and second language and German philology

07.2010 - 09.2011 Freelance translator (Chinese-German/German-Chinese)

09.2006 - 07.2010 Bachelor's degree in German Studies at the Renmin University of China(中国人民大学)

• Corpus linguistics
• Natural Language Processing
• Network Analysis
• Linked Open Data

DFG project "Research data infrastructure for historical sources (HisQu)"

The HisQu project is dedicated to the development of a digital research data infrastructure for historical sources. The focus is on the methodological development of digital analysis processes, as they are increasingly used in history and the humanities. The aim is to establish tools and standards that digitally support the entire research process - from the preparation of sources to their analysis and documentation - and make it reproducible.
Medieval sources on ecclesiastical history, which are provided by the German Historical Institute in Rome in the form of registers, serve as the data basis. These summaries, which are initially only machine-readable to a limited extent, will be converted into semantically structured data in the project. On this basis, an ontology-based category system is being created that systematically records central information such as persons, places, legal acts or ownership. This will enable historians not only to examine individual documents, but also to analyse complex networks, trace developments over time and record transregional connections.
The FactGrid platform, which acts as a knowledge repository and collaborative working environment, plays a central role. Based on Wikibase technology, FactGrid enables the structured collection, linking and evaluation of the data obtained. At the same time, the platform allows connection to international standards and projects such as Wikidata. HisQu thus builds directly on existing digital humanities projects that use Wikibase as an infrastructure and systematically develops its potential for historical source work.
The project is based at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena and is being realised in close cooperation with the German Historical Institute in Rome, the Lower Saxony Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Göttingen and the Gotha Research Library at the University of Erfurt. The German Research Foundation (DFG) is funding the project with 1.9 million euros for three years (2025-2027).

Publications

Tessa Gengnagel, Sarah Lang, Nora Probst, Anja Gerber, Sarah-Mai Dang, Tinghui Duan, Till Grallert, Jana Keck, Julianne Nyhan. 2023. "Open DH? Mapping Blind Spots". In: DHd 2023 Open Humanities Open Culture. 9th Conference of the Association "Digital Humanities in German-speaking Countries" (DHd 2023), Trier/Luxembourg, 13.03.2023-17.03.2023. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7715329

Julia Röttgermann, Tinghui Duan, Maria Hinzmann, Anne Klee, Johanna Konstanciak, Christof Schöch, Moritz Steffes. 2023. "SPARQL for (Digital) Humanists - Querying Wikidata and the MiMoTextBase". In: Digital Humanities 2023. Collaboration as Opportunity (DH2023), Graz, Austria. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8107667

Tinghui Duan, Sven Buechel, Udo Hahn. 2020. "'Romanticism' in current party-political discourse on Twitter". In: Book of abstracts: DHd 2020 Spielräume: Digital Humanities zwischen Modellierung und Interpretation, 352-354. Paderborn. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4621978

Yuan Li, Tinghui Duan, Haitao Liu. 2019. "Is the Distribution of Nouns an Invariant in Human Languages? - An Investigation Based on Written German Corpora". In: Journal of Zhejiang University (Humanities and Social Science), 26 October 2019, 1. https://www.zjujournals.com/soc/article/2019/1008-942X-49-6-39.html

Tinghui Duan, Udo Hahn. 2019. "Compiling Digital Fragments of Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung, a Major Textual Resource for German Romanticism Research, into a Single Comprehensive Text Corpus". Poster presentation at the 10th International Corpus Linguistics Conference (CL2019), July 22-26, 2019, Cardiff, Wales. https://julielab.de/downloads/publications/posters/Poster_CL2019_Duan.pdf

Udo Hahn, Tinghui Duan. 2019. "Corpus Assembly as Text Data Integration from Digital Libraries and the Web". In: Proceedings of 2019 ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), 25-28. Champaign, IL, USA. https://doi.org/10.1109/JCDL.2019.00014.

Sebastian G.M. Händschke, Sven Buechel, Jan Goldenstein, Philipp Poschmann, Tinghui Duan, Peter Walgenbach, Udo Hahn. 2018. "A Corpus of Corporate Annual and Social Responsibility Reports: 280 Million Tokens of Balanced Organisational Writing". In: Proceedings of the First Workshop on Economics and Natural Language Processing, 20-31. Melbourne, Australia. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/W18-3103.

Bernd Kampe, Tinghui Duan, Udo Hahn. 2020. "Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung as a Searchable Online Corpus". In: Proceedings of LREC 2020, 969-976. Marseille, France. http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2020/pdf/2020.lrec-1.122.pdf.

Jessica Neumann, Tinghui Duan. 2018. "Readability formulas for measuring linguistic complexity in textbook texts". In: Der-Die-DaZ - Forschungsbefunde zu Sprachgebrauch und Spracherwerb von Deutsch als Zweitsprache, edited by Britta Hövelbrinks, Isabel Fuchs, Diana Maak, Tinghui Duan, and Beate Lütke, 269-284. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton. https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110582819-279/html

Lectures

30.11.2023: Das Trierer Wörterbuchnetz, together with Thomas Burch, lecture at the workshop Digitalisierung, Vernetzung, Nachnutzung: Aufgaben und Potentiale der niederdeutschen Dialektlexikografie, University of Rostock

10.10.2023: Linked Open Data for Literary History: Constructing, Querying and Using the MiMoTextBase, together with Maria Hinzmann, Berlin, Germany. https://www.temporal-communities.de/events/international-workshop-wikipedia-wikidata-wikibase.html

21.09.2023: Publishing and Querying Linked Open Data - Showcase MiMoText and Wikidata, together with Julia Röttgermann and Johanna Konstanciak. Rostock, Germany. https://www.inf.uni-rostock.de/vorlage-veranstaltungen/detailansicht-des-events/n/introduction-to-lod-new64fecc7e34148383404817/

10.07.2023: Workshop at DH2023 - SPARQL for (Digital) Humanists - Querying Wikidata and the MiMoTextBase", together with Julia Röttgermann, Maria Hinzmann, Anne Klee, Johanna Konstanciak and Christof Schöch. Graz, Austria. https://zenodo.org/record/8107667

13.03.2023: Workshop at DHd2023 - SPARQL für (digitale) Geisteswissenschaftler:innen - Querying Wikidata und die MiMoTextBase, together with Maria Hinzmann, Anne Klee, Johanna Konstanciak, Julia Röttgermann, Christof Schöch and Moritz Steffes, Luxembourg. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7728520

23.06.2022: Romantic Code - a computational linguistic modelling of German literary Romanticism. Research colloquium "Phenomenology of the Digital Humanities" (Professor Frank Fischer) at the Freie Universität Berlin. https://wikis.fu-berlin.de/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=1198165958&preview=/1198165958/1279329349/2022-06-23_Tinghui_Duan_Folien.pdf

30.07.2021: In the Transition from Enlightenment to Romanticism - Structure and Potential of a Full-Text Corpus of the Allgemeine Literatur Zeitung (1785 1849). XIV Congress of the International Association for German Studies (IVG), 26-31 July 2021, Palermo, Italy. https://julielab.de/downloads/publications/slides/Duan_IVG_2021_Palermo.pdf

04.06.2019: Corpus Assembly as Text Data Integration from Digital Libraries and the Web. Paper Talk at JCDL '19: 2019 ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, June 02-06, 2019, Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA. https://julielab.de/downloads/publications/slides/Duan_JCDL_2019_IL.pdf