Distant Spectators

Distant Spectators
Distant Reading for Periodicals of the Enlightenment
The objective of DiSpecs is the application of distant reading methods to the enlightened Spectators press of the 18th century to gain insight into the formation of trans-European ideas, literary techniques and cultural practices.

Latest blog entries

Here you can find out about our newest research results from the Spectators corpus using data analysis, network analysis, topic modeling, stylometry, and sentiment analysis.

"Sentiment Analysis for Literary Studies": materials and toolchain are now online!
The workshop materials, Sentiment Analysis toolchain, and video recordings of the keynote lectures from Sentiment Analysis in Literary Studies on 17-19 February 2021.
Creation: 2021-02-25
Category: Sentiment Analysis
Workshop and Lectures: Sentiment Analysis in Literary Studies, 2021
Announcement for the workshop and lectures Sentiment Analysis in Literary Studies on 17-19 February 2021.
Creation: 2021-01-28
Category: Sentiment Analysis
Text sentiment in the Age of Enlightenment: an analysis of spectator periodicals
Short summary on our article on sentiment analysis published in the journal Applied Network Science in June 2020.
Creation: 2020-06-26
Category: Sentiment Analysis
Distant Spectators: Mining TEI-encoded periodicals of the Enlightenment
Poster for the 19th annual Conference and Members’ Meeting of the Text Encoding Initiative Consortium in Graz 2019.
Creation: 2020-03-04
Category: Data Analysis
The theater on stage: topic transfer in the Spectators
This text delineates our contribution to the 7th annual conference for Digital Humanities in the German-speaking area, DHd 2020, in Paderborn, Germany.
Creation: 2020-03-04
Category: Topic Modeling
Our first steps with Topic Modeling
First experience we gained with Voyant Tools, DARIAH Topics Explorer and DARIAH Topics.
Creation: 2019-11-12
Category: Topic Modeling