Thursday, April 23, 2020
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
247 Hesburgh Library, Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarship
In order to protect the health and wellness of our community, this event has been canceled. We will share more information on rescheduling, as appropriate, at a later date.
Learn how to automatically read and analyze an arbitrarily large corpora of textual materials. The Distant Reader, a locally-written system, can accept as input large volumes of URLs or any number of files from your computer. It then creates a corpus from the input, converts it into plain text, does natural language processing against the plain text, and outputs sets of reports enabling you to use and understand the corpora to a greater degree.
This workshop is useful to anybody across campus who needs to read large volumes of materials, and will help you take control of your content. There are no prerequisites, but participants should bring their own laptop to the session.
Open to Undergraduates, Graduate Students, Postdocs, Faculty, Staff
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/
Julie Vecchio
Interim Co-Director, Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarship
250I Hesburgh Library
