Text Analysis, Anyone?
Thanks Jean McBain for pointing out an event of interest in Canberra (see below), containing themes that will be of interest at THATCamp Brisbane. In fact, Ian Wood was in attendance at last year’s THATCamp Canberra!
With online tools such as Voyant Tools and, perhaps, by drawing on a decent sized corpus with tools from the Wragge Labs Emporium, there is an opportunity to do some small-crowd text analysis. With so much text online there’s plenty to choose from.
If you’re in Canberra, try and get to Ian’s presentation. If you’re not in Canberra, come to THATCamp Brisbane and you’ll find plenty of people to talk to about text analysis.
Analysing Historical Texts and Blogs using Meandre & SEASR
Where: Room 10, Digital Humanities Hub, Building 101, 9 Liversidge Street, ANU
When: 10-11am, Friday 10 August
SEASR is an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation funded toolkit designed to enable researchers to rapidly design, build and share software applications that support research and collaboration. Meandre is the execution framework and graphical programming environment behind SEASR. SEASR and Meandre currently integrate an impressive array of text analysis tools.
Ian Wood will give a brief overview of Meandre and SEASR’s capabilities and share some experiences using Meandre for analysing historical texts and blog data.
Ian Wood is a PhD student in Computer Science currently attempting to develop text analysis tools that mimic traditional questionnaire based methods of measuring psychology. He has a Masters in Computer Science, which explores the potential for semantically enabled science publishing, and has been working with Dr Carolyn Strange on a project involving the analysis of a collection of historical newspaper articles, letters and novels. He is fascinated by the potential for modern text analysis in combination with voluminous social media data to provide empirically grounded insights into sociological processes.