Guest lecture on digital humanities methods, text mining, DH project The Riddle of Literary Quality and my own research on the relationship between perception of author gender and literary quality. Also, a second part with practical analysis: the students get to play with AntConc.
2. First part: me, talking
• Postdoc at Huygens Institute for the history of
the Netherlands (now part of KNAW
Humanities Cluster) in The Riddle of Literary
Quality
• Thesis: Reading beyond the female
• Next year: Dutch version for the larger public
3. Social media
• Blog: www.corinakoolen.nl
• Twitter: @corinakoolen
• Instagram: corneliawko (warning: bucketloads
of knitting posts)
• Slideshare:
https://www.slideshare.net/CorinaKoolen/
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5. Digital humanities: text mining
• Authorship recognition
• Stylistic differences: genre, period, author
gender, etc.
• Topic modeling
• Psychological research
• Sentiment analysis
• Etc.
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10. Relationship scores – text
Which features?
Features: characteristics that one can
measure computationally
19. Respondent motivation De Moor
“[H]et verhaal was matig, taalkundig gezien was
het niet goed. Absoluut niet boeiend. Het stijgt
niet uit boven een bouquetreeks roman.
onbegrijpelijk dat dit boek een prijs gewonnen
heeft.”
“[T]he story was mediocre, linguistically it was
not good. Not compelling at all. It does not
rise above the Mills and Boon novel.
Incomprehensible that this book has won a
prize.”
20. ‘Women’s novels’ – in eyes of respond.
• The Help - Kathryn Stockett (literary)
• The Ice Princess - Camilla Lackberg (suspense)
• Eat, Pray, Love – Elizabeth Gilbert (literary)
• Remember me? – Sophie Kinsella (romantic)
‘Too feminine’
• Fidali’s Way - George Mastras
29. Case: women, body, appearance
“It would not be an exaggeration to say that the
leitmotif of the unruly body (…) that needs
constant disciplining is constitutive of the
chick lit novel.” -- Gill and Herdieckerhoff
(2006)
36. Notepad++
• Free
• Lots of documentation online
• Useful for cleaning of a few texts
• More options than Notepad or the likes
• Necessary: files in txt-format
• Downside: not for Mac OS