Distant Reading Texts

Adam Crymble

Distant Reading - Outline

• Historical Corpora• Linguistics and Statistics• Patterns and Anomalies

Historical Corpora

Cincinnati Library

Historical Corpora – Google Books

Historical Corpora – Old Bailey Online

Skills for Distant ReadingLinguistics & Statistics

Google N-Gram Viewer

Measuring Language

Finding Anachronism

Word Clouds – Word Frequency

Index of ‘The Gentleman’s Magazine’

Sentiment Analysis

• He is a great leader.• He should have been a great leader.• Despite a pleasant interview I can’t support

the many reviews that he was a great leader.

Topic Modeling

Conclusion

• Historical Corpora• Linguistics and Statistics• Patterns and Anomalies