Meeting time: Tuesday 11:15am-1:05pm.
Location: Meyer 168
Aug 30
Eder, M. and Rybicki, J. "Go Set A Watchman while we Kill the Mockingbird In Cold Blood." Project description at the Computational Stylistics Group, [website]
Lancashire, I. and Hirst, G. "Vocabulary Changes in Agatha Christie's Mysteries as an Indication of Dementia: A Case Study." 19th Annual Rotman Research Institute Conference Cognitive Aging: Research and Practice. (2009). [ pdf]
Sept 6
Holmes, D. "Authorship Attribution." Computers and the Humanities 28, no. 2 (1994): 87-106. [website].
Koppel, M., Schler, J. and Argamon, S. "Computational Methods in Authorship Attribution." J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci., 60: 9–26 (2009). doi:10.1002/asi.20961. [See Schoology]
Pilgrim's Progress ix-xvi and 1-8 (introduction and Slough of Despond)
Sept 13
Ebrahimpour, M. et al. "Automated Authorship Attribution Using Advanced Signal Classification Techniques." PLoS ONE 8(2): e54998. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0054998. (2013) [pdf]
O'Sullivan et al. "Two Irish Birds: A Stylometric Analysis of James Joyce and Flann O'Brien." In Digital Humanities 2014: Book of Abstracts, EPFL-UNIL, Lausanne, pp. 284-86. [website]
Pilgrim's Progress 9-29 (Wordly Wiseman, Legality, the Wicket Gate, The Interpreter's house)
Sept 20
Burrows, J. "'Delta': a Measure of Stylistic Difference and a Guide to Likely Authorship." In Literary and Linguistic Computing 17, no. 3 (2002): 267-287 . doi:10.1093/llc/17.3.267 [See Schoology]
Stein, S., and Argamon, S. "A Mathematical Explanation of Burrow's Delta." In the Proceedings of Digital Humanities 2006, pg 207-210. [pdf]
Evert, S, et al. "Towards a Better Understanding of Burrows's Delta in Literary Authorship Attribution." in the Proceedings of NAACL-HLT Fourth Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Literature, 2015, pg 79-88. [pdf]
Pilgrim's Progress pg 29-48 (the hill of difficulty and the palace beautiful).
Sept 27
Pennebaker, J. The Secret Life of Pronouns: What our Words Say about Us. New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2011. Preface and Chapters 1 & 2. [Hard copy distributed in class]
Pilgrim's Progress pg 48-58 (the battle with Apollyon and the Valley of the Shadow of Death).
Oct 4
Bennett, K and Campbell, C. "Support Vector Machines: Hype or Hallelujah." In ACM SIGKDD Explorations Newsletter, vol 2, issue 2, Dec 2000. [pdf]
Steinwart, I and Christmann, A. Support Vector Machines. Berlin: Springer, 2008. Chapter 1. [See Schoology]
Pilgrim's Progress pg 58-77, Christian with Faithful and Talkative.
Oct 11
Eder, M. "Rolling Stylometry." To appear in Digital Scholoarship in the Humanities, 31(3):457-469. [pdf of preprint]
Eder, M. "Testing rolling stylometry." Project description at the Computational Stylistics Group [website]
Pilgrim's Progress pg 77-103, Vanity Fair and Hopeful.
Oct 18 --- No meeting, Fall Break
Oct 25
Learn some R using Swirl or an equivalent tutorial.
(We also brainstormed about projects at this meeting.)
Pilgrim's Progress pg 103-114, Doubting Castle and the Delectable Mountains.
Nov 1
Keep learning R.
Pilgrim's Progress pg 114-135, Little-Faith, etc.
Nov 8
Eder, M. et al. "Stylometry with R: A package for computational text analysis." In R Journal 16(1):107-121 (2016). [pdf]
(See also the stylo package website and manual.)
Pilgrim's Progress pg 135-146, Ignorance, etc.