… Textual Corpora and Computational Text Analysis Project

Taught by Sarah Connell and Elizabeth Maddock Dillon in the class Literature and Digital Diversity at Northeastern. See the assignment details on the class site.

Assignment

• Develop a research question
• Build or find a corpus
• Prepare the corpus (select specific texts or portions of texts, remove metadata, etc.)
• Train and query at least one model
• Write up results in a research blog post
• Discuss at least one scholarly source in the post

Scaffolding

• Previous assignment: text analysis blog post project using web-based tools to compare versions of a historical narrative
• In-class workshops on: R and RStudio, running word2vec code, building and preparing corpora, developing research questions, developing queries, writing research blog posts

Project Showcase and Discussion slide 02 of 23

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