Tuesday, November 8, 2022
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
247 Hesburgh Library, Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarship
Topic modeling is a process of dividing and conquering a collection of texts in order to better understand the collection as a whole. Given a corpora of documents (books, articles, web pages, etc.) from any discipline, topic modeling divides the corpora into sub-corpora, and each sub-corpora will be identified with a theme. This process is sometimes useful for identifying genres, authors, and/or subjects in a body of literature.
This hands-on workshop will demonstrate and facilitate the use of a free Java-based program called Topic Modeling Tool to do this work.
Participants are expected to bring their own computer, and the computer is expected to have Java already installed (which it probably does).
Open to Undergraduates, Graduate Students, Faculty, Staff, Postdocs
Digital Initiatives Librarian
emorgan@nd.edu
Eric Morgan is the Digital Initiatives Librarian in the Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarship. His current work focuses on assisting faculty and students with text mining and analysis. Though his work involves extensive computing expertise, Eric considers himself to be a librarian first, and a computer user second. His professional goal is to discover new ways to use computers to provide better library service. His research interests have included information retrieval, expert systems, and automated personalization.
MIS, 1987, Drexel University; B.A. Philosophy, 1982, Bethany College
For more information: http://www.nd.edu/~emorgan/
