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Presentations

Topic Modeling Basics
This workshop uses the Mallet GUI. Dave Shepard included slides on using the "command-line" version of Mallet.
Topic Modeling: Interpreting Results
Workshop developed for Digital Humanities 201 class, FALL 2012.

Bibliography

Digital Humanities Topic Modeling (Zotero Bibliography)
Rob Nelson: Mining the Dispatch
This project uses as its evidence nearly the full run of the Richmond Daily Dispatch from the eve of Lincoln's election in November 1860 to the evacuation of the city in April 1865.
An Interactive Topic Model of Signs
Goldstone, Andrew, Susana Galán, C. Laura Lovin, Andrew Mazzaschi, and Lindsey Whitmore. An Interactive Topic Model of Signs. Signs at 40. l. 2014.
PMLA and Topic Modeling
DFR-browser
JStor data and topic modeling

Workshops

What will you need?

1. Mallet Gui (it has been downloaded and installed on classroom computers)
http://code.google.com/p/topic-modeling-tool/

2. Texts

a) First-Person Narratives from Doc South project (Digital Library Interface)

A collection of diaries, autobiographies, memoirs, travel accounts, and ex-slave narratives written by Southerners 1860-1920.

b) Back-up zip file (Bush - Obama State of Union Addresses)

c) State of Union Addresses (1790-2012) (zip file)

Sample results

Interpreting results from topic modeling takes practice. It's also helpful to produce graphs that may help visualize the results. Here's an example of some visualization of results from a topic modeling approach to State of Union Addresses: 2005-2012. Topics and their contributions. The full spreadsheet is here.

The network graph shows which topics are shared, and which are unique.

Another visualization of the same data:

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Topic Modeling for Humanities Scholars Workshop