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Class 5 Notes

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Preliminary Class Business

Preview of readings and practicum for Class 6

Fusion Tables (example)
Gephi
For access to the Transcriptions Center this room) to use Gephi on the workstations, see office hours on the Transcriptions site.

Working individually or in a team for the mock project prospectus assignment?
Writing your blog posts:

Scheduling your posts
Twitter promotion
"About" you
Providing enough information for citation

example
Examples of citations of blogs:

Prescott, Andrew. "The Deceptions of Data." Andrew Prescott, January 13, 2013. Accessed January 8, 2013. http://digitalriffs.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/the-deceptions-of-data.html.
Witmore, Michael. "Text: A Massively Addressable Object." Wine Dark Sea, December 31, 2010. Accessed February 17, 2013. http://winedarksea.org/?p=926.

1. Examples of Topic Models

Student topic modeling exercises (Part 1)

Andrew Goldstone's DFR-browser site for Goldstone and Underwood's "The Quiet Transformations of Literary Studies: What Thirteen Thousand Scholars Could Tell Us"

Cf. Comparison of topic model systems/interfaces

Articles mentioning "humanities" in LA Times, NY Times, Wall St. Journal, and Wash. Post during 2010-2014:

2. What Is a Topic Model?

Materials for Discussion Today

Focal Readings

David M. Blei,

"Probabalistic Topic Models" (2012) [Note: no need to follow the parts of the article that have math]
"Topic Modeling and Digital Humanities" (2012)

Edwin Chen, "Introduction to Latent Dirichlet Allocation" (2011)
Ted Underwood,

Matthew L. Jockers, "The LDA Buffet is Now Open; or, Latent Dirichlet Allocation for English Majors" (2011)
Andrew Goldstone and Ted Underwood, "The Quiet Transformations of Literary Studies: What Thirteen Thousand Scholars Could Tell Us" [PDF] (2014) (preprint version)

See Andrew Goldstone's site for exploring and visualizing the topic models on which "The Quiet Transformations of Literary Studies" is based. (See also Andrew Goldstone's new site for exploring and visualizing topic models 40 years of the Signs journal)

John Mohr and Petko Bogdanov, "Topic Models: What They Are and Why They Matter [PDF]" (2013) [paywalled; UCSB students have free access through UCSB Library Proxy server] | [open-access manuscript version]
Lisa M. Rhody, "Topic Modeling and Figurative Language" (2012)
Benjamin M. Schmidt, "Words Alone: Dismantling Topic Models in the Humanities" (2012) -- Read the introductory section (up until the section on "topic modeling at sea")

Other Readings: Word Embedding/Vectors (Read for conceptual comprehension in the following sources. You do not need to follow the math or programming details.)

"Vector Representations of Words" (TensorFlow tutorial)
Benjamin Schmidt, "Word Embeddings for the Digital Humanities" (2015) (live online page) [Note: there are scripts that run on this page that may cause your browser to freeze temporarily and ask if you wish to continue running the script. Choose to continue until the page fully loads.]

The standard Alan Liu explanation of topic modeling -- how to improve it?

The genre of explanations of topic modeling: e.g., Chen, Jockers, Rhody.
(50-topic model of Blei2012, Chen2011, jockers2011, rhody2012, schmidt2012, underwood2012: sorted topics: keys-sorted.xlsx )

3. What's a Topic?

Tomashevsky, "Thematics" [PDF] (1925)
Blei, "Probabalistic Topic Models", 77
Blei, "Topic Modeling and Digital Humanities", 4-5
Mohr and Bogdanov, "Topic Models: What They Are and Why They Matter", 547, 548
Underwood, "What Kinds of "Topics" Does Topic Modeling Actually Produce?", 5ff
Goldstone and Underwood, "The Quiet Transformations of Literary Studies: What Thirteen Thousand Scholars Could Tell Us", 5, 9, 14
Rhody, "Topic Modeling and Figurative Language", 13
Schmidt, "Words Alone: Dismantling Topic Models in the Humanities", 3-4

What's a topic?

Algee-Hewitt, Heuser, and Moretti, "On Paragraphs: Scale,Themes, and Narrative Form"

2.txt (1.txt ) (readability)

Discussion scratchpad: class5-powerpoint.pptx

Word vectors / Word embedding:

Schmidt, "Word Embeddings for the Digital Humanities"
Fabian's text analysis from last week
Bhaskar Mitra, "A Simple Introduction to Word Embeddings" (2016) (slideshow)

4. So What?

What phenomena appear in distant reading?

5. Topic-modeling practicums (continued)

Student topic modeling exercises (Part 2)

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Class 5 Notes

Preliminary Class Business

1. Examples of Topic Models

2. What Is a Topic Model?

Materials for Discussion Today

3. What's a Topic?

What's a topic?

4. So What?

5. Topic-modeling practicums (continued)

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