Copy the list below to create a stopword file. Note: All stopwords (including names) must be in lower case.
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able
about
above
according
accordingly
across
actually
after
afterwards
again
against
all
allow
allows
almost
alone
along
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also
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For the final project you will produce will be a report on your research. The report may be any format–essay, PowerPoint presentation, web site, or a combination of formats–but it should have the publication standard appropriate to an essay. That …
Although you could search for and replace everything you don’t want one character at a time in one file at a time, this would get very tedious. Text Editors allow you to automate the tasks for multiple files at once. …
As mentioned at the beginning of the semester, I will be attending the NEH-funded Topic Modeling Workshop at the University of Maryland this Saturday. The workshop is sure to be tweeted extensively. To follow along, check out #dhtopic.
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This work due for Wednesday is in the second half of this post.
To do this assignment, you will need the GUI Topic Modeling Tool. Before you download it, make sure Java is running on your computer. To check …
Topic modeling made just simple enough: Ted Underwood’s very coherent account of LDA and some best practices for humanists.
What kinds of “topics” does topic modeling actually produce: This post, also by Ted Underwood, also addresses best …
For this assignment, you get to screw around with the Presidents. No, this is not a chance to emulate Monica Lewinsky. Rather, you get to perform a lexomics experiment on the State of the Union addresses of every President of …
You may find the following article useful reading to aid your understanding of algorithmic criticism: José Nilo G. Binongo, “Who Wrote the 15th Book of Oz? An Application of Multivariate Analysis to Authorship Attribution,” Chance 16:2 (2003): 9-17.
Also, …
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Ic þæt secgan mæg hwæt ic yrmþa gebad siþþan icupweox
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This course now has a Twitter hashtag: #csunengl392.…