Report from Dagstuhl Seminar 19172 Computational Creativity Meets Digital Literary Studies Edited by Tarek Richard Besold 1 , Pablo Gervás 2 , Evelyn Gius 3 , and Sarah Schulz 4 1 Telefonica Innovacion Alpha – Barcelona, ES, tarek.besold@gmail.com 2 Complutense University of Madrid, ES, pgervas@sip.ucm.es 3 TU Darmstadt, DE, gius@linglit.tu-darmstadt.de 4 Ada Health – Berlin, DE, sarah.schulz@ada.com Abstract This report documents the outcomes of Dagstuhl Seminar 19172 “Computational Creativity Meets Digital Literary Studies”, held from April 22 to April 25, 2019. Computational Creativity and Digital Humanities are emerging, interdisciplinary fields still experiencing significant growth and development in terms of community, research questions, methods, and approaches. Compu- tational Storytelling as a prominent subfield within Computational Creativity that has mostly focused on planning stories – thus simulating a logically coherent plot – could fruitfully extend its horizon to narrative concepts like narrative style, chronology of narratives, focalization and perspective. These narratological concepts have been investigated by literary scholars for a long time. Yet, operationalization of these concepts is required when used as the basis for computa- tional modelling. This in turn sharpens the definitions of theoretical considerations and can feed back into theoretical discussions in the literary studies. Moreover, there are obvious connection points between Computational Creativity and Natural Language Processing on the one hand, and between Natural Language Processing and Digital Literary Studies on the other hand. However, these connections currently are not transitive. The goal of the seminar was to establish interna- tional links between all three disciplines and among involved researchers through presentations by participants and extensive group-work sessions. Seminar April 22–25, 2019 – http://www.dagstuhl.de/19172 2012 ACM Subject Classification Applied computing → Arts and humanities Keywords and phrases computational creativity, computational narrativity, digital humanities, digital literary studies, storytelling Digital Object Identifier 10.4230/DagRep.9.4.87 Edited in cooperation with Philipp Wicke 1 Executive Summary Sarah Schulz (Ada Health – Berlin, DE) Tarek Richard Besold (Telefonica Innovacion Alpha – Barcelona, ES) Pablo Gervás (Complutense University of Madrid, ES) Evelyn Gius (TU Darmstadt, DE) License Creative Commons BY 3.0 Unported license © Sarah Schulz, Tarek Richard Besold, Pablo Gervás, and Evelyn Gius Literary studies (LS) is a subfield of the humanities that provides a diversity of possible views on its objects of investigation. The universal approach to literary texts does not exist, instead there are many, sometimes incompatible theories that can be applied for the interpretation of literary texts. Additionally, with the emerging of the Digital Humanities (DH) the deployment Except where otherwise noted, content of this report is licensed under a Creative Commons BY 3.0 Unported license Computational Creativity Meets Digital Literary Studies, Dagstuhl Reports, Vol. 9, Issue 4, pp. 87–106 Editors: Tarek Richard Besold, Pablo Gervás, Evelyn Gius, and Sarah Schulz Dagstuhl Reports Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, Dagstuhl Publishing, Germany