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• Bring text to play with in Voyant. Input format can be plain text, a PDF (with OCR), a MS Word Document or a URL for HTML analysis. Upload of any material will be subject to the Voyant privacy policy, so bring text you can safely share.
• Bring a laptop to support your explorations.
• Optionally - the intrepid may want to get a login to the HTRC Portal, create a workset and run a few algorithms in advance of this lecture.  A sign-on is required and the documentation for the portal is helpful.

Going down the rabbit hole: anatomy of a digital book

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More Macroanalysis with HTRC

HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) is a collaborative research center (jointly managed by Indiana University and the University of Illinois) dedicated to developing cutting-edge software tools and cyberinfrastructure that enable advanced computational access to large amounts of digital text. A basic orientation is available.  We will be spending time in the HTRC Portal looking at the results of a few algorithms. 

• entity extraction
  • What are entities?
  • False positives/false negatives (omissions)
• Clustering - topic modeling
  • define and defer for Mimno

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