By text-mining the classics, professor unearths new literary insights
Monday, August 27, 2012 - 09:00
in Mathematics & Economics
One researcher combines programming with text-mining to compare 18th- and 19th century authors’ works with one another based on their stylistic and thematic connections. He crunches massive amounts of text to map how books are connected to one another -- from each's word frequency and choice to its overarching subject matter.