Summer2019 Session6

Sunoikisis Digital Classics, Summer 2019

Session 6. Stylometric analysis of Greek, using vocabulary, grammar, and syntax

Thursday May 9, 17:00 - 18:15 CEST

Convenor: Eleni Bozia (University of Florida)

YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bk0flGaigr0

Slides:

Session outline

This module will present text analysis and visualization tools. We will discuss the significance of such tools, focusing on three key components of language—vocabulary, grammar, and syntax, and consider the significance of such studies on various levels. Starting from simple word clouds to network analysis, stylometry, and customized metrics, the students will get to see different approaches to the text that constitute methodological advantages towards more profound understanding of language construction and authorial styles. Finally, the module will consider how such methods/methodologies can help us share opinions and scholarly work with the broader community.

Seminar readings

A. Text and Data Visualization

https://dhs.stanford.edu/algorithmic-literacy/using-word-clouds-for-topic-modeling-results/ http://dh101.humanities.ucla.edu/?page_id=40 http://dh101.humanities.ucla.edu/?page_id=46 http://www.themacroscope.org/?page_id=362 (discussion on word clouds)

B. Stylometric Analysis

Authorship of Ronald Reagan’s Radio Addresses

http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/stuff_for_blog/Airoldi_PS_Final.pdf

Making Hit Music into Science

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/5083986.stm?ls

**C. Customized Metrics **

E. Bozia. 2016. Atticism: the language of 5th-century oratory or a quantifiable stylistic phenomenon? In Celano, G. (ed.) Special Issue on Treebanks. Open Linguistics 2.1. https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2016-0029

Further reading

Forensic Linguistics

http://uir.unisa.ac.za/bitstream/handle/10500/13324/dissertation_michell_cs.pdf?sequence=1

Deception in Instant Messaging

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1265079/?tp=&arnumber=1265079&contentType=Conference%20Publications&sortType=asc_p_Sequence&filter=AND(p_IS_Number:28293)&rowsPerPage=75

Stylometry with R

https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2016/RJ-2016-007/RJ-2016-007.pdf

Essay title

Consider the advantages of text analysis and visualization for: 1. the teaching of languages, and 2. the possibilities of finding connections between languages.

Exercise

Make your own collection of texts (different texts of the same author, or different authors, etc.) and run them through different tools, each time granulating your results.