… Textual Corpora and Computational Text Analysis Project

Taught by Sarah Connell and Elizabeth Maddock Dillon in the class Literature and Digital Diversity at Northeastern. Full assignment details here.

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 2 of 23

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