Thursday, September 23, 2021
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
247 Hesburgh Library, Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarship
Learn how to automatically read and analyze 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 better understand the corpora. Useful to anyone across campus who needs to read large volumes of materials, this hands-on workshop will help you take control of your content.
Please bring your 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
