Welcome to the website of the Department for Computing in the Humanities

The Department for Computing in the Humanities at the Goethe University in Frankfurt aims at the formal linguistic and algorithmic exploration of the concept of information in the humanities. This concerns in particular the investigation of time-dependent aspects of information processing and thus the notion of an historical information science. The center takes, in this context, developments in scientific and technical disciplines (such as applied computational linguistics, text and media technology, and computer science) and develops them further or initiates new developments, in order to further the transfer of knowledge between computer science and text linguistics and corpus-technology research within the humanities. To this end, the department develops information models and algorithms for analyzing information in the humanities and makes them available in the form of a web-based application called the eHumanities Desktop.