Last Phase of Project Work

 

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1. Preparing Public Presentation Pages for Project

 

• Public project page and subpages
• Final short essay assignment revised to serve purpose of "findings and interpretation" (see revision on Assignments page) 

 

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2. Current State of our Corpora

 

• 1880's Children's Fiction Corpus (134 works)
• Subcategories:
• All
• European
• American
• Female
• Male
• British Female
• British Male
• Processed versions of works:
• Full plain-text
• "Scrubbed" (Jockers 2014 stoplist applied, punctuation removed except for internal apostrophes, numerals removed, converted to all lower-case)
• "Scrubbed and chunked" (each work chunked into segments of 1,000 words)

 

• 1880's British Adult Fiction Corpus (451 works)
• Subcategories:
• All female & male
• Female
• Male
• Processed versions of works:
• Full plain-text
• "Scrubbed" (Jockers 2014 stoplist applied, punctuation removed except for internal apostrophes, numerals removed, converted to all lower-case)
• "Scrubbed and chunked" (each work chunked into segments of 1,000 words)

 

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3. Text Analysis Work

 

• Team: Ginny, Sinead, Eve, Jennifer

 

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4. Topic Modeling Work

 

• Team: Alec, Lindsay, Maithy, Aaron, Ashley
• Alan's 100, 200, 300, 500 topic models of the Children's Lit corpus (all works)