Networked Corpus

Collin Jennings and I have a new article in ELH: “A Scientifical View of the Whole”: Adam Smith, Indexing, and Technologies of Abstraction. Abstract: While numerous literary scholars have raised concerns about the capacity of computational methods to reveal unrecognized features of literary form and content, few have explored the approach of interpreting these methods in relation … Read more

Collin Jennings and I have an article in Literary and Linguistic Computing: Visibility and meaning in topic models and 18th-century subject indexes. Abstract: This article addresses the ‘meaning problem’ of unsupervised topic modeling algorithms using a tool called the Networked Corpus, which offers a way to visualize topic models alongside the texts themselves. We argue that … Read more