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Please read this paper (Attardo, 2017) in advance.
Anne-Sophie Bories received her PhD from Université Paris 3 – Sorbonne Nouvelle, after being a visiting researcher at University of California, Berkeley, and at University of Leeds. Her works on poetry take advantage of computational and statistic methods to blend close and distant reading, and address issues of poetics and stylistics. She published a monography in 2020 titled Des Chiffres et des mètres, focused on Raymond Queneau’s poetry. Anne-Sophie is the founder of a network of researchers in computational stylistics, named “Plotting Poetry” which gathers once a year in Europe for a conference.
She is now leading a team at the University of Basel, to explore the interactions between humour and versification in large, digitised corpus, thanks to a generous grant awarded for 5 years by the Swiss National Science Foundation.
Petr Plecháč received his PhDs in Literary Theory and Mathematical Linguistics from Palacký University Olomouc and Charles University in Prague respectively. He's a head of the Versification Research Group at the Institute of Czech Literature, Czech Academy of Sciences and a member of "Mining the Comic Verse" research team at the University of Basel. His main domains of interest are quantitative analysis of poetic texts and stylometry. Petr is a member of the "Plotting Poetry" steering committee and of the Prague Linguistic Circle.
