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URL: Topic Modeling and Digital Humanities: Overview (1)
In this post: What is a topic model? UX considerations Existing techniques This will be the first post in a series of posts as we begin a new project on exploring topic modeling for the digital humanities, following the previous work of (link)TOME. A topic model is a model of how often words occur together in a group of texts. Many other posts have been written about the definition of “topic model” in detail, in addition to detailing various algorithms. http://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/2-1/topic-modeling-and-digital-humanities-by-david-m-blei/ http://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/2-1/what-can-topic-models-of-pmla-teach-us-by-ted-underwood-and-andrew-goldstone/ http://programminghistorian.org/lessons/topic-modeling-and-mallet https://tedunderwood.com/2012/04/07/topic-modeling-made-just-simple-enough/ Here, I am going to highlight some challenges of viewing, exploring, and learning from topic modeling…
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