A Humanist Apologetic of Natural Language Processing; or A New Introduction...
This post originally appeared on the Digital Humanities at Berkeley blog. It is the second in what became an informal series. Images have been included in the body of this post, which we were unable to...
View ArticleReading Distant Readings
This post offers a brief reflection on the previous three on distant reading, topic modeling, and natural language processing. These were originally posted to the Digital Humanities at Berkeley blog....
View ArticleWhat We Talk About When We Talk About Digital Humanities
The first day of Alan Liu’s Introduction to the Digital Humanities seminar opens with a provocation. At one end of the projection screen is the word DIGITAL and at the other HUMAN. Within the space...
View ArticleA Naive Empirical Post about DTM Weighting
In light of word embeddings’ recent popularity, I’ve been playing around with a version called Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA). Admittedly, LSA has fallen out of favor with the rise of neural embeddings...
View ArticleDistant Reading: An Exam List
As a resource to future graduate students, I am sharing the reading list I compiled for my qualifying exam on Distant Reading. Below the list, you will find a user manual of sorts that explains the...
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Chicago Corpus Word Embeddings
A quick post to announce the public distribution of word embeddings trained from the Chicago Text Lab’s corpus of US novels. They will be hosted by this blog and can be downloaded from this link...
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Attributing Authorship to “Iterating Grace,” or The Smell Test of Style
Author attribution, as a sub-field of stylometry, is well suited to a relatively small set of circumstances: an unsigned letter sent by one of a handful of correspondents, an act of a play written by...
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Ghost in the Machine
This post originally appeared on the Digital Humanities at Berkeley blog. It is the first in what became an informal series. For a brief reflection on the development of that project, see the more...
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Topic Modeling: What Humanists Actually Do With It
This post originally appeared on the Digital Humanities at Berkeley blog. It is the second in what became an informal series. For a brief reflection on the development of that project, see the more...
View ArticleIntroduction
I am Teddy Roland, a PhD candidate in English at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where I study American Literature in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries. My research is...
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