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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Tools for Exploring Text: Visualization
In the light of my new tool to help navigate the New York Times, I’ve been reading about previous approaches to the problem of making sense of large collections of text. As far as I can tell, the...
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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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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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