Comments on: Text Mining Scarce Sources http://chnm2010.thatcamp.org/04/27/text-mining-scarce-sources/ The Humanities and Technology Camp Tue, 08 Mar 2011 21:52:08 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.12 By: Lincoln Mullen http://chnm2010.thatcamp.org/04/27/text-mining-scarce-sources/#comment-90 Sat, 22 May 2010 11:44:03 +0000 http://thatcamp.org/?p=154#comment-90 Great—I was hoping someone would be more familiar with Winiarski’s work than I am. The Haverhill relations that Winiarski has written about and the East Windsor relations that I’m looking at differ in ways that should make for an interesting comparison in text mining methods.

]]> By: Rob Nelson http://chnm2010.thatcamp.org/04/27/text-mining-scarce-sources/#comment-89 Thu, 20 May 2010 17:53:34 +0000 http://thatcamp.org/?p=154#comment-89 I’ve done some thinking (with my colleague Doug Winiarski, who has written about these admission narratives) and a tiny bit of experimentation (using Mallet as well) on such “relations.” The direction I’ve thought about and just started to pursue is to see what textual features distinguish relations of women from those of men or relations written before from those written after the Great Awakening or relations written in one town from those written in another. Given how generic in terms of length, structure, diction, imagery, and biblical citation these texts can be, this seems to me an interesting exercise to see if text mining techniques can reveal what are likely to be extraordinarily subtle, even minuscule, differences that sex and place and time made.

]]> By: THATCamp 2010 » Blog Archive http://chnm2010.thatcamp.org/04/27/text-mining-scarce-sources/#comment-88 Tue, 18 May 2010 20:52:17 +0000 http://thatcamp.org/?p=154#comment-88 […] hope that some of the abovementioned things connect to other THATcampers’ ideas, e.g. Lincoln Mullen’s post on mining scarce sources and Bill Ferster’s post on teaching using […]

]]> By: Aditi Muralidharan http://chnm2010.thatcamp.org/04/27/text-mining-scarce-sources/#comment-87 Tue, 27 Apr 2010 23:31:33 +0000 http://thatcamp.org/?p=154#comment-87 Check out www.historying.org for an example of text mining one single resource.

And what I learned about text mining from my (Great Lakes) THATCamp text mining session

mininghumanities.com/2010/04/24/a-text-miners-revalation-how-historians-use-text/

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