ISAW-GA 3024-001 | Fall 2017 | Introduction to Digital Humanities for the Ancient World

December 4 / Week 12

Text Processing with Python 2: Counting and Classification | Final Project Updates

Assignment Due

• Push ahead in the Python course, completing at least one more unit beyond where you left off in Week 4.

Before Class

Download/Install/Etc.

• Clone the following GitHub repo, “Exploring Diction and Topics in Latin Love Elegy”. Link
• Go through RegexOne tutorials 1-15. Link
  • For the motivated: Read Knox, D. 2013 “Understanding Regular Expressions,” The Programming Historian. Link. Be sure to look at the PH “[Lessons Index]”—even with its discipline-specific name, this site is an invaluable source of tutorials aimed at all Digital Humanists.

For Class

Reading

• Bird, S. E. Klein, and E. Loper. 2015. “Language Processing and Python,” in Natural Language Processing with Python. Link. You should skim this chapter for a basic overview of how Python can be used to manipulate and analyze texts.
• Jockers. M. “The LDA Buffet is Now Open; or, Latent Dirichlet Allocation for English Majors” Link
• Weingart. S. 2012. “Topic Modeling for Humanists: A Guided Tour” Link