What is the Reader?

Overview

Questions

• What is the Distant Reader, and why should I care?

Objectives

• Explain how text mining, natural langauge processing, and other machine learning computing techniques can be used to model narrative corpora, and in the end, assist the student, researcher, or scholar to address research questions from the mundane to the sublime.

• Outline how the Distant Reader Toolbox facilitates much of this process.

Text mining, natural language processing, and machine learning as supplemental reading processes

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Key Points

• Academics are expected to consume large narrative corpora
• The application of text mining, natural language processing, and machine learning are supplemental methods for using and understanding narrative corpora
• The Distant Reader and the Distant Reader Toolbox facilitate these processes