Castanet: automatically generating a browsing structure for a collection
A debate seems to come up when folks in charge of organizing digital collections get together: standardized schema such as the Library of Congress Subject Headings are annoying to read, outdated, and...
View ArticleA 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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Just because it’s obvious, doesn’t mean it’s useless
Recently, I came across Phrase Nets, a new kind of text visualization, and I thought “wow, this could be really useful to researchers seeking information”. My husband, a researcher seeking information,...
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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...
View ArticleMetaOptimize: Q+A for the large data set community
Joseph Turian & co. at MetaOptimize have started a Q+A forum for “data geeks” – people in machine learning or data mining who deal with questions about visualizing, processing, or otherwise making...
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Tools for Exploring Text: Natural Language Processing
Natural language processing (NLP), also known as computational linguistics, is a set of models and techniques for analyzing text computationally. In the context of the digital humanities, it can help...
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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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