Thorsten Vitt

Thorsten Vitt is a Researcher at the Chair of Computational Philology and Modern German Literary History within the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Würzburg. His role includes academic advising for Digital Humanities degree programs, IT support for the Chair, and technical leadership in digital edition projects such as the Faust Edition and TextGrid. He is affiliated with the ZPD (Zentrum für Philologie) and works on computational methods for literary analysis.

• Current Projects: Faust Edition, ESF-ZDEX, TextGrid, DARIAH-DE
• Technical Expertise: Markup Languages, Linguistic Query Languages, Database Systems

Research Interests: Digital Humanities, Computational Philology, Authorship Attribution, Topic Modeling, Digital Editions, Data Visualization, Software Development for Humanities. His work bridges computer science with literary studies, focusing on algorithmic analysis of historical texts and digital scholarly editions.

Publications highlight his contributions to computational analysis of Goethe's Faust, topic modeling tools, and distance measures like Burrows' Delta. He has developed software libraries for stylometric analysis and collaborates on infrastructures like TextGrid and DARIAH-DE.

Education: Completed a diploma thesis on "Queries to Complex Corpora" (2005) and a student research paper on "Storing Linguistic Corpora in Databases" (2004) at Humboldt University Berlin.

Technical Leadership: Deputy IT support for the Chair, contributor to GitHub repositories including pydelta and faust-web, and developer of tools for topic modeling and digital editions.