Week One–Introduction
Wednesday, January 20 Introduction–For Friday, read Ted Underwood
Reading questions for discussion
Friday, January 22 What is Text Analysis?: Examples of Projects: Word Frequencies, Concordances, Lexica
Reading for weekend Tanya Clement
Week Two N-grams and Distant Reading
Monday, January 25 Distant Reading as a Concept: How to read thousands of books
Read David Hoover, Text Analysis for Wednesday
Wednesday, January 27 N-grams and Google Books
Friday. January 29 Bookworm/culturnomics site and exercise
Assignment/blog What is Distant Reading and how does it help us? 700 words.
Week Three–Corpus Creation
Monday, February 1 How to create a corpus– text repositories
Practicum 2 “Finding Digital Texts”
Wednesday, February 3 Corpus creation–criteria and praxis
Friday, February 5 Creating Raw Text Files
Week Four–Cleaning and Parsing your Text
Monday, February 8 Looking at corpora and metadata–Faull’s work
Possibilities with Wordseer–Example: Slave Narratives
Wednesday, February 10 Cleaning and Parsing your Text corpus
Read Ted Underwood, “Genre, Gender, and Point of View”
Friday, February 12 Preparing your corpus — discuss Underwood reading
Assignment/blog Critical corpus creation 500-750 words
Blog #2
Write a blog of at least 500 words on your process of corpus creation. Describe what your process has been.
Refer back to the guidelines at http://textanalysis.blogs.bucknell.edu/course-schedule/corpus-creation/ in your blog post. Submit by Sunday 2/14 by 11.59pm using category “blog #2”.
Week Five–Text Analysis tools
Monday, February 15 Introduction to Voyant — Google Drive –sample .txt files for analysis
(Stefan Sinclair’s Workshop Instructions)
Wednesday, February 17 Lab: Voyant 2.0; set up
Friday, February 19 Voyant practice: complete by Sunday 11.59pm.
Week Six–Text Analysis and Statistics
Monday, February 22 Antconc–what is it?
Wednesday, February 24 Antconc lab
Read Laurence Anthony (2013), “A critical look at software tools in corpus linguistics” Linguistic Research 30(2), 141-161.
Friday, February 26 Antconc lab
Assignment Comparison of your corpus and text analysis in Voyant and Antconc
Week Seven–Text Analysis and Intelligence
Monday February 29 Jigsaw — expanding your toolchest
Wednesday, March 2 Jigsaw lab Practice
Friday, March 5 Jigsaw lab
Week Eight–Synthesis Presentations sign up
You will each have 15 minutes to present your research so far this semester. Your talk should present (in a series of slides) a) your research question b) your corpus What is it? How did you create it? What editorial choices did you make to create the corpus? How is it representative? How have you modified your corpus to the different software you have used? c) your methodology (How are you going about answering your research question? What are the different platforms revealing?
Monday March 7 Presentations
Wednesday, March 9 Presentations
Friday, March 11 Presentations
Assignment: Write up a reflection piece on your presentations
Spring Break
Week Nine–Topic Modeling
Monday, March 21 What is Topic Modeling? Topic Modeling by Hand… The Gettysburg Address
Read “Topic Modeling: A Basic Introduction” In Journal of Digital Humanities
Wednesday, March 23 Topic Modeling with a GUI/ Introduction to Mallet
Friday, March 25 Mallet lab (optional Mallet tutorial-command line programming)
Week Ten–Sentiment Analysis
Monday, March 28 Faull in Atlanta–library day
Wednesday, March 30 Alchemy API and Jigsaw
Friday, April 1 Sentiment and Emotion in texts –mistakes and victories…
Read Stephen Ramsey, “‘patacomputing” in Reading Machines, U Illinois, 2011.
Assignment: Can machines read emotions? Using your experience with Topic Modeling and Sentiment Analysis how possible it is that machines can read semantically? Taking three quotations from the Ramsey reading, discuss what successes and failures you have had using these methods with your corpus. Post by midnight on Sunday under the category “emotions”
Week 11–Stylometrics
Monday, April 4 Measuring Style–Skype session with Dr. James O’Sullivan, University of Sheffield, UK
Visit Lexometrics. Start reading through the “book”, especially the chapters 3 and 4
Wednesday, April 6 Lexos platform exploration
Friday, April 8 Measuring style
Week 12–Text-Encoding
Monday, April 11 Creating Machine Readable Texts–TEI–Dr. Diane Jakacki
Wednesday, April 13 Oxygen
Friday, April 15 Oxygen and TEI and
Assignment: Machine and Human reading…
Week 13–Final Projects
Monday, April 18
Wednesday, April 20
Friday, April 22
Week 14–Final Projects
Monday, April 25
Wednesday, April 27
Friday, April 29
Week 15
Monday, May 2–Snap Talk Presentations