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Visualizing English Print

Documentation of the Visualizing English Print project at Wisconsin: its corpora, metadata, and maps of early print.

  • Visualizing English Print, 1530 -1800: The Corpus, Tag Sets, and Topics

    Michael Witmore · December 12, 2013

    Visualization of the corpus using a topic model. A prototype of this corpus exploration and visualization tool, Serendip, was in use this fall at the Folger Shakespeare Library. It was designed by Eric Alexander. Here…

  • Visualizing English Print, 1530-1800, Genre Contents of the Corpus

    Michael Witmore · December 12, 2013

    Some features of the corpus , visualized here over time. Many of the linguistic and topical trends that we find in this data set will express the state of the corpus at a given moment in time. I have divided up the time…

  • Data and Metadata

    Beth Ralston and Jonathan Hope · July 9, 2015

    (Post by Jonathan Hope and Beth Ralston; data preparation by Beth Ralston.) It is all about the metadata. That and text processing. Currently (July 2015) Visualising English Print (Strathclyde branch) is focussed on…

  • The Great Work Begins: EEBO-TCP in the wild

    Jonathan Hope · March 25, 2016

    SAA2016 plenary round table Session organiser: Jonathan Hope, Strathclyde University UK [email protected] Objectives of the session The release of EEBO-TCP phase 1 on 1 st January 2015 was a beginning, not an…

  • A Map of Early English Print

    Michael Witmore and Jonathan Hope · April 23, 2019

    Michael Witmore & Jonathan Hope [caption: PCA biplot of 61,315 texts from the TCP corpus, rated on features counted by Docuscope version 3.21 in an implementation created by the Mellon funded “Visualizing Early Print”…

  • Mapping the ‘Whole’ of Early Modern Drama

    Michael Witmore · April 5, 2015

    We’re currently working with two versions of our drama corpus: the earlier version contains 704 texts, while the later one has 554, the main distinction being that the later corpus has a four-way genre split – tragedy,…

  • Now Read This: A Thought Experiment

    Michael Witmore · June 23, 2015

    Let’s say that we believe we can learn something more about what literary critics call “authorial style” or “genre” by quantitative work. We want to say what that “more” is. We assemble a community of experts, convening…