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Literature by the Numbers
- igravious 10y agoNice. My field of "digital humanities" gets a mention. I'm performing digital investigations along these lines except my focus is specifically philosophy texts. One of the questions I'm attempting to answer along the way is, what makes a philosophy text philosophical? In addition to statistical analysis I'm also doing topic modelling. If anybody out there is doing something similar I'd love to hear from them. :)
- gkya 10y agoThis brings to my mind the novel Se una notte di inverno un viaggiatore of Italo Calvino where there are many references to computers analysing and writing novel, and also a particular scene (that of Lotaria and Silas Flannery in a dialogue) where a young researcher,instead of reading the novels, makes a frequency based index of all the words in a novel and analyses themto find out what it is about That aside, as a person who's both a self taught programmer and a humanities student with literary aspirations, I do wonder how digital technology and text craftsmanship interacts andcan interact in the future. Certainly a thing worth a deep research.