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

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  Text Complexity in the Digital Humanities — A Case Study on 18th Century Periodicals

  New article on text complexity!

  Creation: 2022-01-11
  Category: Stylometry

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  "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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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