Under the umbrella of the D-WISE project, manual and digital
approaches to discourse analysis are combined to develop a prototypical working
environment for digital qualitative discourse analysis. This new qualitative data
analysis tool, called D-WISE Tool Suite, is built up in a process of close exchange
by the two teams from humanities and informatics and focuses on developing
central innovations regarding the availability of relevant Digital Humanities (DH)
applications. Bridging the gap between structural patterns detected with digital
methods and interpretative processes of human meaning making is at the core
of the collaborative approach of anthropological studies and computer linguistics
in the D-WISE project, which innovates both informatics technology of contextoriented
embedding representations and hermeneutic methodologies for discourse
analysis in the Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse (SKAD). In this
paper, the intertwining of the two paradigms Human-in-the-loop and AI-in-theloop
will be presented by outlining the concept of Human Computer Interaction
(HCI) in the D-WISE Tool Suite with its AI-empowered features and established
modes of feedback-loops and the supported functions for facilitating SKAD.