The fictionality of topic modeling: Machine reading Anthony Trollope's Barsetshire series
This essay describes how using unsupervised topic modeling (specifically the latent Dirichlet allocation topic modeling algorithm in MALLET) on relatively small corpuses can help scholars of literature circumvent the limitations of some existing theories of the novel. Using an example drawn from wor...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2015-12-01
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Series: | Big Data & Society |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951715610591 |