Text Analysis

“Text Analysis” is a broad category that describes a number of specific methodologies that have been adapted from the fields of computer science and linguistics and used for humanistic inquiry.The overall goal, is to turn text into data for analysis.

Some of the most popular forms of text analysis include:

N-Grams
Topic Modeling
Sentiment Analysis
Named Entity Recognition
Word Embedded Vector Models

Examples of Scholarly Projects Using Text Analysis

Mining the Dispatch, Robert K. Nelson
Mining Martha Ballard’s Diary, Cameron Blevins
America’s Public Bible, Lincoln Mullen
“Everything on Paper will Be Used Against Me:” Quantifying Kissenger, Micki Kauffman
Robots Reading Vogue, Lindsay King and Peter Leonard