Adventures in Stylometry!

In May we took a class called “Computational Text Analysis with Stylometry and R” at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute at the UniversitĂ© de MontrĂ©al. It was run by the Krakow-based Computational Stylistics Group. Stylometry is a method that can determine an author's “style” through counting word frequencies. Recently, in the news, it has been … Continue reading Adventures in Stylometry!

Reencoding Crime and Punishment for Network Analysis

After finishing encoding our corpus at the end of last year, we’ve been working on speech network analysis. Network analysis is a method that creates a visualization of connections between elements such as characters, authors, or places within a given dataset. It’s a great method for analyzing patterns in texts like characters’ relationships to one … Continue reading Reencoding Crime and Punishment for Network Analysis

A Public TEI Edition!

After 5 years of work, our encoded TEI edition of seven of Dostoevsky's works is now publicly available on Github! The monumental process of encoding was carried out by Katherine Bowers, Kate Holland, Braxton Boyer, Lena Vasileva, Anastasiya Gordiychuk, Dmytro Ishchenko, Nadezhda Ivanova, Elijah Sciborowski, Veronika Sizova, Sydney Vermeersch, and Elizaveta Shershneva. Now that we … Continue reading A Public TEI Edition!

We’re Baaack!

We’re back! Actually we didn’t go anywhere and the project has been progressing well in the last couple of years although we’ve clearly been failing to update the blog. I’m writing this entry overlooking the Strait of Georgia from Katia’s office on the stunning UBC campus after doing our first in-person Digital Humanities Summer Institute … Continue reading We’re Baaack!