Word2Dream

Word2Dream

Poets and coders Eran Hadas and Eyal Gruss recently built an interface which demonstrates how the Word2Vec system associates words in vector space, on the basis of Google’s gigantic English-language corpus. (As previously mentioned.) Here they show how Word2Vec...
Text variation visualisation – new work

Text variation visualisation – new work

I’ll try to keep this updated. Some recent work I’ve discovered which has to do generally with text variation visualisation (as in VVV): Douglas Duhaime trains the machine to find which sentences in the work of Oliver Goldsmith are unacknowledged...
CHERISH-DE

CHERISH-DE

Congratulations to Professor Matt Jones and colleagues, who are leading a new multi-disciplinary centre at Swansea University: CHERISH-DE (= Digital Economy). Details here. [Update 2016: here.] Funded by EPSRC, it’s dedicated to “extensive understanding of...
Jan Rybicki: novel stylometry

Jan Rybicki: novel stylometry

Jan Rybicki (Jagiellonian University) presented work on “stylometry evolution” in a sample of 1000 English novels, and others in 9 more languages, to CLARIN-NL last Friday: his slides are here. This work uses the Stylo package and Gephi network...