TextAnalysis

Resources for Exploring Text Analysis

• "Where to Start," courtesy of Ted Underwood

R

• Matthew Jockers, Text Analysis With R for Students of Literature (PDF available for download via the NEU Library)
• Download and install R
• Download and install RStudio
• RSeek (search tool for finding resources on R)
• Simple data types in R

Topic Modeling

• Megan R. Brett's "Basic Introduction"
• Scott Weingart's "Guided Tour"
• Ben Schmidt's post about Latent Dirichlet allocation's (LDA's) limitations
• MALLET (An open-source Java-based LDA package)
• GUI Tools that use MALLET
  • Google's Topic Modeling Tool
  • Serendip
• Stanford Topic Modeling Toolbox

word2vec

• Ben Schmidt's Blog Post on Vector Space Models
  • which links to his R wrapper package for word2vec

Miscellaneous text analysis tools

• Voyant Tools
• Laurence Anthony's AntConc, a GUI concordancing and text analysis toolkit
• David McClure's TextPlot (produces force-directed network of words in a text, based on estimated kernel densities)
  • Blog post explaining concept
  • Blog post to download and set up
  • Blog post explaining parameters

Corpus building

Some places to get text

Plain text

• Project Gutenberg
• Early English Books Online (EEBO) (some texts TEI-encoded)
• Early Caribbean Digital Archive (ECDA)

Encoded

• Women Writers Online
• Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO-TCP)
• UNC's Documenting the American South Project