I actually suspect that the topics identified by [latent Dirichlet allocation] probably always have the character of “discourses.” —Ted Underwood, “What kinds of ‘topics’ does topic modeling actually produce?” The tools that enable historians to carry out this work of analysis are partly inherited and partly of their own making […]. These tools have enabled Read More…
Tag: science fiction
Topic Modeling Experiments with some Stories by H.P. Lovecraft
I’m re-posting a short write-up of a weekly practicum assignment from Alan Liu‘s Introduction to Digital Humanities graduate seminar in fall 2014 tonight so that I can cite it as an example from another blog post. There have been some (very small) modifications; the original write-up, from 3 November 2014, is currently available here for Read More…