Class 5 Notes


 

Preliminary Class Business

 

 

  

1. Examples of Topic Models

 

 

  

2. What Is a Topic Model?

 

Materials for Discussion Today

 

 

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

 

  • 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?

 

 

What's a topic?

 

 

 

 

 

  

4. So What?

 

What phenomena appear in distant reading?

 

 

  

5. Topic-modeling practicums (continued)

 

Text encoding vs. text analysis.

 

  

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