silverasm – THATCamp Bay Area 2011 http://bayarea2011.thatcamp.org The Humanities and Technology Camp Sat, 31 Dec 2011 00:33:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.12 Text Analysis for the Humanities http://bayarea2011.thatcamp.org/10/22/text-analysis-for-the-humanities/ http://bayarea2011.thatcamp.org/10/22/text-analysis-for-the-humanities/#comments Sat, 22 Oct 2011 15:11:49 +0000 http://bayarea2011.thatcamp.org/?p=389 Continue reading →]]>

Got a lot of digitized text? Not sure what to do with it? Try text mining!

I’d like to hold a Text Mining session for those interested in using computers to extract information from raw text.  My background is in the field of computational linguistics, so I can introduce the teriminology and  possibilities – when we talk about the “information in text” what do we mean? What kinds of things has computational linguistics made it possible to extract from words, sentences, and document collections?

Some questions I’d like to discuss are

  • What are different ways of using text in the humanities? As examples? As evidence? As inspiration for an interpretation?
  • What are some computational activities that humanities text analysis interfaces should support?

 

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