Publications

Monographs

• Information Dynamics in Low Countries' Chronicles (1500–1860). A Computational Approach
  Alie Lassche
  PhD dissertation, Leiden University, 2024 · [link]

Articles in journals

• Performing Gender Through Dialogue: A Computational Approach to Male and Female Speech in Dutch Drama (1600–1800)
  Lucas van der Deijl, Alie Lassche
  Early Modern Low Countries 9 (2025) 2: 321–348 · [doi]
• Profiling Local Chroniclers in the Early Modern Low Countries
  Erika Kuijpers, Carolina Lenarduzzi, Judith Pollmann, Theo Dekker, Alie Lassche
  Urban History (2024): 1–26 · [doi]
• Quantitative Text Analysis
  Kristoffer L. Nielbo, Folgert Karsdorp, Melvin Wevers, Alie Lassche, Rebekah B. Baglini, Mike Kestemont, Nina Tahmasebi
  Nature Reviews Methods Primers 4 (2024) 1: 1–16 · [doi]
• Popular Song Topics in the Dutch Republic. A Data-Driven Study into Topical Fluctuations in the Dutch Song Database (1550–1750)
  Alie Lassche
  Early Modern Low Countries 6 (2022) 2: 253–277 · [doi]
• Semantics of European Poetry Is Shaped by Conservative Forces: The Relationship between Poetic Meter and Meaning in Accentual-Syllabic Verse
  Artjoms Šeļa, Petr Plecháč, Alie Lassche
  PLOS ONE 17 (2022) 4: e0266556 · [doi]
• Chronicling Novelty. Nieuws! Lokale kronieken, 1500–1850
  Theo Dekker, Alie Lassche
  De Zeventiende Eeuw. Cultuur in de Nederlanden in Interdisciplinair Perspectief (2020): 147–150
• Social and Economic Imperatives for the Production of Wedding Poetry in the Dutch Republic. A Data-Driven Analysis
  Nina Geerdink, Alie Lassche
  Quaerendo 50 (2020) 1: 81–108 · [doi]
• Lezers in de marges van Vondels Palamedes. Een census van zeventiende-eeuwse edities
  Alie Lassche, Arnoud Visser
  Nederlandse Letterkunde 24 (2019) 1: 35–63 · [doi]

Papers in conference proceedings

• Evaluating Embedding Models on Danish Historical Newspapers: A Corpus and Benchmark Resource
  Alie Lassche, Pascale Feldkamp, Yuri Bizzoni, Katrine Baunvig, Kristoffer Nielbo, Johan Heinsen
  Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2026) Palma, Mallorca, May 11–16, 2026 · [doi]
• Reading Beyond the Center. Modeling Book Encounters in the Danish Periphery (1800–1850)
  Alie Lassche, Rie Schmidt Eriksen, Pascale Feldkamp, Johan Heinsen, Katrine Baunvig, Kristoffer Nielbo
  Proceedings of the Computational Humanities Research Conference 2025 Luxembourg, December 9–12, 2025 · [doi]
• Framing the Canon: A Computational Study of Canonicity in Danish Golden Age Paintings (1750–1870)
  Louise Brix Pilegaard Hansen, Rie Schmidt Eriksen, Pascale Feldkamp, Alie Lassche, Kristoffer Laigaard Nielbo, Katrine Frøkjær Baunvig, Yuri Bizzoni
  Proceedings of the Computational Humanities Research Conference 2025 Luxembourg, December 9–12, 2025 · [doi]
• Fact from Fiction: Finding Serialized Novels in Newspapers
  Pascale Feldkamp, Alie Lassche, Katrine Baunvig, Kristoffer Nielbo, Yuri Bizzoni
  Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 4: Student Research Workshop) Vienna, July 2025 · [doi]
• Why Novels (Don't) Break Through: Dynamics of Canonicity in the Danish Modern Breakthrough (1870–1900)
  Alie Lassche, Pascale Feldkamp, Yuri Bizzoni, Katrine Baunvig, Kristoffer Nielbo
  Proceedings of the 9th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature Albuquerque, May 4, 2025 · [doi]
• Canonical Status and Literary Influence: A Comparative Study of Danish Novels from the Modern Breakthrough (1870–1900)
  Pascale Feldkamp, Alie Lassche, Jan Kostkan, Márton Kardos, Kenneth Enevoldsen, Katrine Baunvig, Kristoffer Nielbo
  Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Natural Language Processing for Digital Humanities Miami, November 16, 2024 · [doi]
• The Kronieken Corpus: An Annotated Collection of Dutch/Flemish Chronicles from 1500–1850
  Theo Dekker, Erika Kuijpers, Alie Lassche, Carolina Lenarduzzi, Roser Morante, Judith Pollmann
  Proceedings of the 8th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature St. Julian's, Malta, March 22, 2024 · [doi]
• (De)constructing Binarism in Journalism: Automatic Antonym Detection in Dutch Newspaper Articles
  Alie Lassche, Ruben Ros, Joris Veerbeek
  Proceedings of the Computational Humanities Research Conference 2023 Paris, December 6–8, 2023 · [link]
• Chronicling Crises. Event Detection in Early Modern Chronicles from the Low Countries
  Alie Lassche, Jan Kostkan, Kristoffer Nielbo
  Proceedings of the Computational Humanities Research Conference 2022 Antwerp, December 12–14, 2022 · [link]
• Preface
  Alie Lassche, Kristoffer Nielbo (eds.)
  Proceedings of the Computational Humanities Research Conference 2022 Antwerp, December 12–14, 2022 · [link]
• Identifying Copied Fragments in an 18th Century Dutch Chronicle
  Eleanor Smith, Lianne Wilhelmus, Alie Lassche, Erika Kuijpers, Roser Morante
  Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2022) Marseille, 2022 · [link]
• The Early Modern Dutch Mediascape. Detecting Media Mentions in Chronicles Using Word Embeddings and CRF
  Alie Lassche, Roser Morante
  Proceedings of the 5th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature 2021 · [doi]

Presentations at conferences and workshops

• Corsaren: Multimodal Storytelling in Nineteenth Century Danish Satire
  Alie Lassche, Mika Kipke, Rie Eriksen, Katrine Baunvig, Kristoffer Nielbo
  DH Benelux 2026 · [doi]
• News Circulation in Denmark–Norway (1770–1805): Preserving Content Diversity through Topic-Vector Representations
  Alie Lassche, Rie Eriksen, Kristoffer L. Nielbo, Katrine L. Baunvig
  DHNB 2026 · [doi]
• Why Novels (Don't) Break Through: Dynamics of Canonicity in the Danish Modern Breakthrough (1870–1900)
  Alie Lassche, Pascale Feldkamp, Yuri Bizzoni, Katrine Baunvig
  DH Benelux 2025
• Pursuing a PhD in DH: Challenges, Opportunities, and Best Practices
  Lucas van der Deijl, Milan van Lange, Alie Lassche, Ruben Ros, Kim Smeenk
  DH Benelux 2025 · [doi]
• Performing Gender on the Early Modern Stage: A Computational and Cross-lingual Approach to Male and Female Speech in European Drama
  Alie Lassche, Lucas van der Deijl
  DH Benelux 2025 · [doi]
• Early Modern Information Dynamics. Modelling Information Landscapes of Chroniclers from the Low Countries (1500–1860)
  Alie Lassche
  Research Colloquium IEG, Mainz, November 2023
• Innovators of the Past: Modelling Novelty and Resonance in Dutch Historical Language Records
  Alie Lassche, Ruben Ros
  ADHO Digital Humanities Conference (DH2023), Graz, July 2023 · [doi]
• Reconstructing the Early Modern Mediascape. A Computer-Assisted Approach to Source Detection in Chronicles from the Netherlands (1550–1850)
  Alie Lassche
  PhD Conference Huizinga Institute, Huissen, November 2022
• Semantic Halo in European Poetry: The Relationship between Poetic Meter and Meaning
  Alie Lassche
  Sound Matters: An Exploratory Workshop into Sound and Digital Humanities, Leiden, August 2022
• Changing Mediascapes and the Collection of Knowledge
  Alie Lassche
  PhD Symposium Institute for History, Leiden, December 2021
• The Mediascape of Dutch Chroniclers. Labeling Media Mentions in Early Modern Chronicles Using CRF
  Alie Lassche, Roser Morante
  Digital Humanities Benelux Conference (DHBenelux), online, June 2021
• Using Digital Tools to Analyze the Mediascape of Netherlandish Chroniclers
  Alie Lassche
  Renaissance Society of America Conference (RSA), online, April 2021
• Repetition and Popularity in Early Modern Songs
  Alie Lassche, Folgert Karsdorp, Els Stronks
  ADHO Digital Humanities Conference (DH2019), Utrecht, July 2019 · [link]

Book reviews

• Drie nieuwe producten, twee oude eeuwen, één nieuwe weg
  Alie Lassche, Carmen Verhoeven
  Vooys 36 (2018) 3: 73–77

Blogposts

• Liedcultuur. Altijd en overal zingen
  Alie Lassche
  literatuurgeschiedenis.org, February 2023 · [link]
• Leescultuur in de Republiek. Sporen van lezers in boeken
  Alie Lassche
  literatuurgeschiedenis.org, November 2022 · [link]
• Gouden Eeuw? Grote welvaart voor een kleine groep
  Alie Lassche, Marrigje Paijmans
  literatuurgeschiedenis.org, November 2022 · [link]
• Eventdetectie in vroegmoderne kronieken
  Alie Lassche
  chroniclingnovelty.com, April 2022 · [link]
• Een digitale toekomst voor oud nieuws: bekijk het filmpje over ons project!
  Alie Lassche
  chroniclingnovelty.com, September 2020 · [link]
• Ruim 34.000 scans: ons kroniekencorpus is compleet! (Maar we hebben nog steeds hulp nodig)
  Alie Lassche
  chroniclingnovelty.com, April 2020 · [link]
• Geen mondkapjes maar een processie met reliquieen: virusbestrijding in 1057
  Alie Lassche
  chroniclingnovelty.com, March 2020 · [link]
• Ons corpus is bijna compleet!
  Alie Lassche
  chroniclingnovelty.com, December 2019 · [link]