Digital Tools for the Analysis of Literary Texts: topic modelling, text reuse, stylometry
23-26 October 2017 University of Verona
Polo Zanotto, room S1
[pc pool, basement, entrance from both Chiostro San Francesco and Polo Zanotto]
Instructors:
Greta Franzini (University of Göttingen)
Ulrike Henny (University of Würzburg)
Simone Rebora (University of Verona & University of Göttingen)
Project & organisation:
Adele Cipolla
Anna Cappellotto
Tiziana Mancinelli
Programme
Monday 23
14.00-15.30 U. Henny-Krahmer Topic Modelling: An Introduction
15.45-17.00 U. Henny-Krahmer Topic Modelling: Corpus preparation
Tuesday 24
9.30-11.00 U. Henny-Krahmer Topic Modelling: Using MALLET and tmw
11.30-13.00 U. Henny-Krahmer Topic Modelling: Post Processing, Visualization and Interpretation of Results
15.00-17.00 G. Franzini Automatic Text Reuse Detection in Historical Texts: An Introduction
Wednesday 25
9.30-11.00 G. Franzini TRACER: Command Line practice and installation
11.30-13.00 G. Franzini TRACER: Demonstration and practice with a provided data-set (in English)
14.30-16.00 G. Franzini TRACER: Practice and class presentation of the results
Thursday 26
9.30-11.00 G. Franzini TRACER: Conclusion, final remarks and feedback
11.30-13.00 G. Rebora Stylometry in Theory. Delta Distance, Network Theory, and the Problem of Authorship Attribution
14.30-16.00 G. Rebora Stylometry in Practice. Hands on R and Stylo