What is the Reader?


  • 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

Quick start


  • The Reader provides many differentr ways to model a corpus

Configure


  • The Reader needs to know where your data resides

  • The Reader needs to know where helper files and applications reside

List words


  • A data set is made up of sets of ngrams – words and phrases

Browse the public library


  • You can search and browse the set of previously created study carrels

Build your library


  • You can search and download previously created study carrels

List words, revisited


  • There are different things you can do if your study carrels are saved locally

Other - Wordle


  • You can search and browse the set of previously created study carrels

Other - Antconc


  • You can search and browse the set of previously created study carrels

Other - OpenRefine


  • You can search and browse the set of previously created study carrels

Other - Topic Modeling Tool


  • You can search and browse the set of previously created study carrels

Other - Gephi


  • Words are known by the company they keep, and network graphs illustdrate the relationships between nodes.