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Monographs

Piotrowski, M. (2012). Natural language processing for historical texts. Morgan & Claypool. https://doi.org/10.2200/S00436ED1V01Y201207HLT017

Peer-reviewed articles in international scientific journals

Piotrowski, M. (2025). Les humanités numériques – vers une “mathématique originale”? Cahiers du Centre de Linguistique et des Sciences du Langage, (69). https://doi.org/10.26034/la.cdclsl.2025.8356

Ulasik, M. A., Mahlow, C., & Piotrowski, M. (2025). Sentence-centric modeling of the writing process. Journal of Writing Research, 16(3), 463–498. https://doi.org/10.17239/jowr-2025.16.03.05

Piotrowski, M., & Kemman, M. (2023). Institutional arrangements in the absence of disciplinary definitions: Digital humanities in Switzerland. Swiss Journal of Sociology, 49(3), 519–540. https://doi.org/10.2478/sjs-2023-0025

Piotrowski, M., & Xanthos, A. (2020). Décomposer les humanités numériques. Humanités numériques, 1. https://doi.org/10.4000/revuehn.381

Piotrowski, M. (2019). Accepting and Modeling Uncertainty. Zeitschrift für digitale Geisteswissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.17175/sb004_006a

Piotrowski, M. (2019). Historical models and serial sources. Journal of European Periodical Studies, 4(1), 8–18. https://doi.org/10.21825/jeps.v4i1.10226

Maiatsky, M., Boyarsky, A., Boyarskaya, N., Velmezova, E., & Piotrowski, M. (2018). VicoGlossia: Annotatable and commentable library as a bridge between reader and scholar (a proof of concept study: Early Soviet philological culture). Umanistica Digitale, 2(2). https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2532-8816/7253

Höfler, S., & Piotrowski, M. (2011). Building corpora for the philological study of Swiss legal texts. Journal for Language Technology and Computational Linguistics, 26(2), 77–89. https://doi.org/10.21248/jlcl.26.2011.148

Mahlow, C., & Piotrowski, M. (2009). SMM: Detailed, structured morphological analysis for Spanish. Polibits, 39, 41–48.

Piotrowski, M. (1997). NLP-supported full text retrieval. Revue. Informatique et Statistique dans les Sciences Humaines, 33(1–4), 285–298. https://www.rissh.uliege.be/upload/docs/application/pdf/2022-05/mpiotrowski_nlp.pdf

Peer-reviewed contributions to edited volumes

Piotrowski, M. (2024). Schism or renaissance? On the relationship between computational humanities and digital humanities. In C. A. Nunn & F. van Oorschot (Eds.), Compendium computational theology: Introducing digital humanities to theology (Vol. 1, pp. 31–49). heiBOOKS. https://doi.org/10.11588/HEIBOOKS.1521.C21938

Piotrowski, M. (2024). Schisma oder Renaissance? Zum Verhältnis von Computational Humanities und Digital Humanities. In C. A. Nunn & F. van Oorschot (Eds.), Kompendium Computational Theology: Forschungspraktiken in den Digital Humanities (Vol. 1, pp. 33–53). heiBOOKS. https://doi.org/10.11588/HEIBOOKS.1459.C21901

Piotrowski, M. (2013). Rechtsquellen und Computerlinguistik. In 153. Neujahrsblatt des Historischen Vereins des Kantons St. Gallen (p. 38). Toggenburger Verlag.

Piotrowski, M. (2011). QTI—a failed e-learning standard? In F. Lazarinis, S. Green, & E. Pearson (Eds.), Handbook of research on e-learning standards and interoperability: Frameworks and issues (pp. 59–82). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61692-789-9.ch004

Piotrowski, M. (2010). What is an e-learning platform? In Y. Kats (Ed.), Learning management systems technologies and software solutions for online teaching: Tools and applications (pp. 20–36). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61520-853-1.ch002

Mahlow, C., & Piotrowski, M. (2009). A target-driven evaluation of morphological components for German. In S. Clematide, M. Klenner, & M. Volk (Eds.), Searching answers – Festschrift in honor of Michael Hess on his 60th birthday (pp. 85–99). MV-Wissenschaft.

Piotrowski, M., Amelung, M., & Rösner, D. (2007). EduComponents: Educational components for Plone. In M. Lytras & A. Naeve (Eds.), Open source for knowledge and learning management: Strategies beyond tools. Idea Group.

Peer-reviewed papers in conference proceedings

Piotrowski, M., & Ramogida, T. (2026). Arguing with corpora: The epistemic status of corpora in computational humanities. In M. Barget, A. Lassche, & T. van der Heijden (Eds.), Digital Humanities Benelux 2026 Conference. Maastricht University. https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.19440091

Piotrowski, M. (2024). Towards computational historiographical modeling. In J. Baudry, L. Burkart, B. Joyeux-Prunel, E. Kurmann, M. Mähr, E. Natale, C. Sibille, & M. Twente (Eds.), Digital History Switzerland 2024: Book of abstracts. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13904530

Öhman, E., Piotrowski, M., & Hämäläinen, M. (2023). The great digital humanities disconnect: The failure of DH publishing. In M. Hämäläinen, E. Öhman, F. Pirinen, K. Alnajjar, S. Miyagawa, Y. Bizzoni, N. Partanen, & J. Rueter (Eds.), Proceedings of the Joint 3rd International Conference on Natural Language Processing for Digital Humanities and 8th International Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Uralic Languages (pp. 132–137). Association for Computational Linguistics. https://aclanthology.org/2023.nlp4dh-1.16

Piotrowski, M. (2023). Incertitude et histoire numérique. Actes du colloque Humanistica 2023. Colloque Humanistica 2023, Genève, June 26–28, 2023. https://hal.science/hal-04108242

Mahlow, C., & Piotrowski, M. (2022). Academic writing and publishing beyond documents. DocEng ’22: Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Document Engineering 2022. ACM symposium on document engineering 2022, September 20–23, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1145/3558100.3563840

Fafinski, M., & Piotrowski, M. (2020). Modelling medieval vagueness: Towards a methodology of visualising geographical uncertainty in historical texts. In R. H. Reussner, A. Koziolek, & R. Heinrich (Eds.), INFORMATIK 2020 (pp. 1317–1326). Gesellschaft für Informatik; Gesellschaft für Informatik. https://doi.org/10.18420/inf2020_123

Piotrowski, M., & Fafinski, M. (2020). Nothing new under the sun? Computational humanities and the methodology of history. In F. Karsdorp, B. McGillivray, A. Nerghes, & M. Wevers (Eds.), CHR2020: Proceedings of the workshop on computational humanities research (pp. 171–181). CEUR Workshop Proceedings. http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2723/short16.pdf

Piotrowski, M., & Neuwirth, M. (2020). Prospects for computational hermeneutics. In C. Marras, M. Passarotti, G. Franzini, & E. Litta (Eds.), Atti del IX convegno annuale AIUCD: La svolta inevitabile: Sfide e prospettive per l’informatica umanistica (pp. 204–209). Associazione per l’Informatica Umanistica e la Cultura Digitale (AIUCD). https://doi.org/10.6092/UNIBO/AMSACTA/6316

Piotrowski, M. (2019). A vision for user-defined semantic markup. Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Document Engineering 2019 (DocEng ’19). https://doi.org/10.1145/3342558.3345414

Piotrowski, M. (2019). History and the future of markup. In J. Kosek (Ed.), Proceedings of XML Prague 2019 (pp. 323–333). http://archive.xmlprague.cz/2019/files/xmlprague-2019-proceedings.pdf#page=335

Piotrowski, M. (2018). Digital humanities: An explication. In M. Burghardt & C. Müller-Birn (Eds.), Proceedings of INF-DH 2018. Gesellschaft für Informatik. https://doi.org/10.18420/infdh2018-07

Mousselly Sergieh, H., Piotrowski, M., & Gurevych, I. (2017). EGOlink: Supporting editors of online historical sources through automatic link discovery. Proceedings of Digital Humanities 2017 (DH 2017), 758–761. https://dh2017.adho.org/abstracts/163/163.pdf

Piotrowski, M. (2016). Future publishing formats. In R. Sablatnig & T. Hassan (Eds.), DocEng ’16: Proceedings of the 2016 ACM symposium on document engineering (pp. 7–8). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/2960811.2967170

Piotrowski, M. (2015). Informatik – technischer Hilfsdienst der Digital Humanities? In G. Görz, A. Henrich, G. Heyer, M. Thaller, & M. Warnke (Eds.), DHd-Workshop «Informatik und die Digital Humanities». DHd.

Piotrowski, M., Colavizza, G., Thiery, F., & Bruhn, K.-C. (2014). The Labeling System: A new approach to overcome the vocabulary bottleneck. In P. Schmitz, L. Pearce, & Q. Dombrowski (Eds.), DH-CASE II: Collaborative annotations in shared environments: Metadata, tools and techniques in the digital humanities (pp. A1/1–6). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/2657480.2657482

Piotrowski, M., & Senn, C. (2012). Harvesting indices to grow a controlled vocabulary: Towards improved access to historical legal texts. In K. Zervanou & A. van den Bosch (Eds.), Proceedings of the EACL 2012 workshop on language technology for cultural heritage, social sciences, and humanities (LaTeCH 2012) (pp. 24–29). ACL. http://aclweb.org/anthology/W12-1005

Mahlow, C., & Piotrowski, M. (2010). Noun phrase chunking and categorization for authoring aids. In M. Pinkal, I. Rehbein, S. Schulte im Walde, & A. Storrer (Eds.), Semantic approaches in natural language processing: Proceedings of the conference on natural language processing 2010 (KONVENS) (pp. 57–65). Universaar. http://universaar.uni-saarland.de/monographien/volltexte/2010/12/

Mahlow, C., Piotrowski, M., & Fenske, W. (2010). A solid foundation: Why e-assessment should be based on a systematic typology of test items. In M. Baptista Nunes & M. McPherson (Eds.), Proceedings of the IADIS international conference e-learning 2010 (Vol. 2, pp. 47–51). IADIS Press.

Piotrowski, M. (2010). Document conversion for cultural heritage texts: Frame­Maker to HTML revisited. In A. Antonacopoulos, M. Gormish, & R. Ingold (Eds.), DocEng 2010: Proceedings of the 10th ACM symposium on document engineering (pp. 223–226). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/1860559.1860608

Piotrowski, M. (2010). From law sources to language resources. In C. Sporleder & K. Zervanou (Eds.), Proceedings of the ECAI 2010 workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities (LaTeCH 2010) (pp. 67–71). http://ilk.uvt.nl/LaTeCH2010/LPF/ws16.pdf

Piotrowski, M. (2010). Leveraging back-of-the-book indices to enable spatial browsing of a historical document collection. In R. Purves, P. Clough, & C. Jones (Eds.), Proceedings of the 6th workshop on geographic information retrieval (GIR’10) (pp. A17/1–2). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/1722080.1722102

Piotrowski, M., Läubli, S., & Volk, M. (2010). Towards mapping of alpine route descriptions. In R. Purves, P. Clough, & C. Jones (Eds.), Proceedings of the 6th workshop on geographic information retrieval (GIR’10) (pp. A2/1–2). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/1722080.1722083

Mahlow, C., & Piotrowski, M. (2009). LingURed: Language-aware editing functions based on NLP resources. International Multiconference on Computer Science and Information Technology, 2009 (IMCSIT’09), 243–250. https://doi.org/10.1109/IMCSIT.2009.5352721

Mahlow, C., & Piotrowski, M. (2009). Opportunities and limits for language awareness in text editors. In R. Domeij, S. Johansson Kokkinakis, O. Knutsson, & S. Sofkova Hashemi (Eds.), Proceedings of the workshop on NLP for reading and writing – resources, algorithms and tools (Vol. 3, pp. 14–18). Northern European Association for Language Technology (NEALT); Tartu University Library.

Piotrowski, M., & Mahlow, C. (2009). Linguistic editing support. In U. M. Borghoff & B. Chidlovskii (Eds.), DocEng’09: Proceedings of the 9th ACM symposium on document engineering (pp. 214–217). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/1600193.1600240

Mahlow, C., & Piotrowski, M. (2008). Computational linguistics for word processing: Opportunities and limits. In S. Sofkova Hashemi, O. Knutsson, R. Domeij, & S. Johansson Kokkinakis (Eds.), Workshop on NLP for Reading and Writing: Resources, algorithms and tools. KTH; Online. http://spraakbanken.gu.se/personal/sofie/SLTC_2008/sltc-2008.final.pdf

Mahlow, C., & Piotrowski, M. (2008). Linguistic support for revising and editing. In A. Gelbukh (Ed.), Computational linguistics and intelligent text processing, 9th international conference CICLing 2008 (pp. 631–642). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78135-6_54

Mahlow, C., Piotrowski, M., & Hess, M. (2008). Language-aware text editing. In R. Dale, A. Max, & M. Zock (Eds.), LREC 2008 workshop on NLP resources, algorithms and tools for authoring aids (pp. 9–13). ELRA. http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2008/workshops/W23_Proceedings.pdf

Amelung, M., Piotrowski, M., & Rösner, D. (2007). eduComponents: A component-based e-learning environment. ITiCSE’07: Proceedings of the 12th Annual SIGCSE Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, 352–352. https://doi.org/10.1145/1268784.1268923

Amelung, M., Piotrowski, M., & Rösner, D. (2007). Large-scale computer-assisted assessment in computer science education: New possibilities, new questions. In J. Fong & F. L. Wang (Eds.), Proceedings of workshop on blended learning 2007 (pp. 257–266). online. http://www.cs.cityu.edu.hk/~wbl2007/WBL2007_Proceedings_HTML/WBL2007_Proceedings.pdf

Amelung, M., Piotrowski, M., & Rösner, D. (2007). Webbasierte Dienste für das E-Assessment. 2. Workshop Pervasive University im Rahmen der GI-Jahrestagung 2007, Lecture Notes in Informatics, 518–522.

Piotrowski, M., Amelung, M., & Rösner, D. (2007). Tactical, document-oriented e-learning components. In M. B. Nunes & M. McPherson (Eds.), Proceedings of the IADIS international conference e-learning 2007 (pp. 171–177). IADIS Press.

Piotrowski, M., & Fenske, W. (2007). Interoperabilität von elektronischen Tests. DeLFI 2007: 5. e-Learning Fachtagung Informatik, Lecture Notes in Informatics, 185–196. https://dl.gi.de/handle/20.500.12116/14973

Rösner, D., Piotrowski, M., & Amelung, M. (2007). A sustainable learning environment based on an open source content management system. In W. Bühler (Ed.), Proceedings of the german e-science conference (GES 2007). Max Planck Digital Library. http://edoc.mpg.de/315523

Amelung, M., Piotrowski, M., & Rösner, D. (2006). EduComponents: Experiences in e-assessment in computer science education. ITiCSE’06: Proceedings of the 11th Annual SIGCSE Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, 88–92. https://doi.org/10.1145/1140124.1140150

Rösner, D., Amelung, M., & Piotrowski, M. (2006). E-Learning-Komponenten zur Intensivierung der Übungen in der Informatik-Lehre – ein Erfahrungsbericht. In P. Forbrig, G. Siegel, & M. Schneider (Eds.), HDI2006: Hochschuldidaktik der Informatik (pp. 89–102). Gesellschaft für Informatik e. V. https://dl.gi.de/handle/20.500.12116/23419

Piotrowski, M., & Rösner, D. (2005). Integration von E-Assessment und Content-Management. In D. Tavangarian, J. M. Haake, & U. Lucke (Eds.), DeLFI2005: 3. Deutsche e-Learning Fachtagung Informatik der Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (Volume P-66, pp. 129–140). Gesellschaft für Informatik e. V. https://dl.gi.de/handle/20.500.12116/15184

Rösner, D., Amelung, M., & Piotrowski, M. (2005). LlsChecker – ein CAA-System für die Lehre im Bereich Programmiersprachen. In D. Tavangarian, J. M. Haake, & U. Lucke (Eds.), DeLFI2005: 3. Deutsche e-Learning Fachtagung Informatik der Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (Volume P-66, pp. 307–318). Gesellschaft für Informatik e. V. https://dl.gi.de/handle/20.500.12116/15200

Hahn, U., Honeck, M., Piotrowski, M., & Schulz, S. (2001). Subword segmentation—leveling out morphological variations for medical document retrieval. In S. Bakken (Ed.), Proceedings of the 2001 AMIA annual symposium (pp. 229–233). AMIA. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11825186

Piotrowski, M., Klöcker, J., & Knappen, J. (1999). Is LaTeX2ε markup sufficient for scientific articles? In G. Partosch & G. Wilhelms (Eds.), EuroTeX’99 proceedings (pp. 281–289).

Edited proceedings

Rochat, Y., Métrailler, C., & Piotrowski, M. (Eds.). (2023). Proceedings of the workshop on computational methods in the humanities 2022 (COMHUM 2022). CEUR Workshop Proceedings. Workshop on computational methods in the humanities 2022 (COMHUM 2022), Lausanne, June 9–10, 2022. http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3602/

Piotrowski, M. (Ed.). (2018). COMHUM 2018: Book of abstracts for the Workshop on Computational Methods in the Humanities 2018. Workshop on computational methods in the humanities 2018, Lausanne, June 4–5, 2018. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1312778

Piotrowski, M. (Ed.). (2018). Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Methods in the Humanities (COMHUM 2018). CEUR Workshop Proceedings. Workshop on computational methods in the humanities 2018, Lausanne, June 4–5, 2018. http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2314/

Mahlow, C., & Piotrowski, M. (Eds.). (2015). Systems and frameworks for computational morphology: Fourth international workshop, SFCM 2015, stuttgart, germany, september 17–18, 2015, proceedings (Vol. 537). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23980-4

Mahlow, C., & Piotrowski, M. (Eds.). (2013). Systems and frameworks for computational morphology: Third international workshop, SFCM 2013, berlin, germany, september 6, 2013, proceedings (Vol. 380). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40486-3

Piotrowski, M., Mahlow, C., & Dale, R. (Eds.). (2012). Proceedings of the EACL 2012 workshop on computational linguistics and writing: Linguistic and cognitive aspects of document creation and document engineering (CL&w 2012). ACL. http://aclweb.org/anthology/W12-03

Mahlow, C., & Piotrowski, M. (Eds.). (2011). Systems and frameworks for computational morphology: Second international workshop, SFCM 2011, zurich, switzerland, august 26, 2011, proceedings (Vol. 100). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23138-4

Piotrowski, M., Mahlow, C., & Dale, R. (Eds.). (2010). Proceedings of the NAACL HLT 2010 workshop on computational linguistics and writing: Writing processes and authoring aids. ACL. http://aclweb.org/anthology/W10-04

Mahlow, C., & Piotrowski, M. (Eds.). (2009). State of the art in computational morphology: Workshop on systems and frameworks for computational morphology, SFCM 2009, zurich, switzerland, september 4, 2009, proceedings (Vol. 41). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04131-0

Outreach (not peer-reviewed)

Piotrowski, M. (2020). Modèles de mobilité des musiciens et migration des motifs musicaux. In E. Velmezova (Ed.), Journée de la recherche en Lettres 2020: La recherche et la mobilité. Université de Lausanne, Faculté des lettres. https://iris.unil.ch/handle/iris/78268

Piotrowski, M. (2019). La technologie et l’interdisciplinarité. In E. Velmezova (Ed.), Journée de la recherche en Lettres 2019: Interdisciplinarité, pluridisciplinarité, multidisciplinarité, transdisciplinarité dans le monde académique d’aujourd’hui: avantage ou obstacle? Université de Lausanne, Faculté des lettres. https://iris.unil.ch/handle/iris/46352

Piotrowski, M. (2018). Digital Humanities – zwischen Metawissenschaft und neuer Disziplin. SocietyByte: Wissenschaftsmagazin des BFH-Zentrums Digital Society, (Dezember 2018). https://www.societybyte.swiss/2018/12/05/was-heisst-und-zu-welchem-ende-studiert-man-digital-humanities/

Preprints and Working Papers

Piotrowski, M. (2024). Looking back to look ahead: Bachelard’s phenomenotechnique and Gardin’s logicist approach in digital history. Preprint. https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.14188187

Piotrowski, M. (2023). Uncertainty as unavoidable good (Center for Uncertainty Studies Working Papers No. 5). Universität Bielefeld, Center for Uncertainty Studies (CeUS). https://doi.org/10.4119/UNIBI/2983506

Piotrowski, M. (2020). Ain’t no way around it: Why we need to be clear about what we mean by “digital humanities.” In M. Huber, S. Krämer, & C. Pias (Eds.), Wozu digitale geisteswissenschaften? Innovationen, revisionen, binnenkonflikte. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/d2kb6

Piotrowski, M. (2015). Early modern European peace treaties online [Final Report]. DM2E Open Humanities Award. http://dm2e.eu/files/D4.6_app4_Peace-Treaties_final.pdf