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.