Thursdays 2:40-3:55pm
w/ Professor Dennis Yi Tenen
Office Hours M&W 4-5pm
Philsophy Hall, 408e
email dt2406

Readings: Moretti, Franco, and Dominique Pestre. "Bankspeak." New Left Review 92 (2015): 75–99.

Ideas: Close and distant reading

Lab Assignment: Weasel Words I. Due Monday, April 6 by midnight.

Readings: "Facing the Language Challenge" from Natural Language Processing with Python by Steven Bird, Ewan Klein and Edward Loper.

Ideas: files and folders, projects, home directory, plain text and binary formats, bits and bytes, form and content, pipes, lines and words, destructive vs. non-destructive transformations (data munging), dataflow programming, bag of words, stop words

Method & Tools: Natural Language Processing, command line, basic unix utilities

Readings: Mosteller, Frederick, and David L. Wallace. "Inference in an Authorship Problem." Journal of the American Statistical Association 58.302 (1963): 275–309.

Ideas: stem, lemma, bag of words, n-gram, frequency, collocation, model

Method & Tools: stylistics, iPython, NLTK

Lab Assignment: Weasel Words II. Due Monday, April 20th by midnight. Start on Automatic Essay Grader, due Monday, April 27 by midnight.

Reading:

• Evans, Courtney, and Ben Jasnow. "Mapping Homer’s Catalogue of Ships." Literary and Linguistic Computing 29.3 (2014): 317–325. Web. 24 Mar. 2015.

• Moretti, Franco. “Graphs, Maps, Trees - 2.” New Left Review 26 (2004): 79–103.

Ideas: more on stems, lemmas, n-grams, bag of words, named entities

Method: named-entity recognition

Lab Assignment: Go through the lecture notes for this week. Make sure you understand each step. A small homework: download "Around the World in 80 days" by Jules Verne. Extract place names. Submit .csv along with your code.

Reading:

• Fish, Stanley. “Literature in the Reader: Affective Stylistics.” New Literary History 2, no. 1 (October 1, 1970): 123–62.
• Reyes, Antonio, and Paolo Rosso. “Making Objective Decisions from Subjective Data: Detecting Irony in Customer Reviews.” Decision Support Systems 53, no. 4 (November 2012): 754–60.

Method: sentiment analysis

Method: network analysis

Lab Assignment: Web of Science

Method: topic modeling, supervised machine learning

Lab Assignment: Final Project