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I’ll bite. Why would it be valuable to analyze literature or classics computationally? Are you suggesting that they ought to be considered a subset of linguisti
by DiggyJohnson 5y ago
I’ll bite. Why would it be valuable to analyze literature or classics computationally? Are you suggesting that they ought to be considered a subset of linguistics? Linguistics is about language, not the content of language.
- qualudeheart 5y agoThe meaning of texts and language as Derrida tells us has a graph like structure. Each word in this sentenc eis defined in relation to other words and the meaning of the whole sentence can therefor be modelled as a graph. Modern neural networks— like those used at Palantir Technologies for link analysis- can be applied to the structure of any text including this post right here. GPT-3 can also be used for summaries of literature and biblical exegesis and will soon be an indispensable part of any computational linguist’s toolkit.
- UncleMeat 5y agoThere is value in this. The digital humanities has given us new methods to approach the study of literature (and a great many other fields), which has been dominated by the method of close reading for a long time. For example, can scale our analysis of the transfer of techniques between works and use rigorous mathematical analysis to model influence and networks in a new way. There is a lot of garbage work in the digital humanities (like all fields) that is basically just doing word choice analysis with computers, but it truly is a new method that is available to researchers to put in their toolchest and new methods are almost always good.