A text miner’s revelation: how historians use text
As a text miner looking to the humanities as a source of interesting problems, I need to know how “humanities researchers” use text. So I went to Great Lakes THATCamp in March (2010) to find out. I had...
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Digital Library Interfaces That Work
At the Open AMMP meetup yesterday, I encountered some more people who work with digital collections. A common theme (other than complaints about the tightfistedness and lack of public spirit in...
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Text mining 19th century novels with the Stanford Literature Lab
Yesterday, I attended a group meeting with the Literature Lab at Stanford University’s English Department, where they presented some very cool new results on mining 19th Century British and American...
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Extracting Social Networks from 19th Century Novels
This year’s conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics, the most prestigious event in computational linguistics, had a paper that got me very excited. It’s called Extracting Social...
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WordSeer: Exploring Language Use in Slave Narratives
More and more source text in the humanities gets digitized every day, making it accessible to large scale computational analysis. Nevertheless, traditional methods of humanistic analysis are based on...
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A new version of WordSeer is in the works. It’s been guided by the advice of our long-suffering literature-scholar collaborators. And by the tales of frustration and trial-and-error of the students of...
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