text analysis tools

1. New Tools in Digital Humanities UDHIG June 13 2006 Zoe Borovsky

3. Why digitize text? Text analysis: discovering new knowledge by linking information together in interesting ways, not just showing overall trends. “ I think discovering new knowledge vs. showing trends is like the difference between a detective following clues to find the criminal vs. analysts looking at crime statistics to assess overall trends in car theft.” (Marti Hearst, 2003)

4. The verb “look” occurs more often near words & names of giantesses than giants. Three volumes of sagas: Hundreds of giants and giantesses

8. The darker color, the more variants that differ

9. Toggle between texts

10. Generate HTML

14. Word List HyperPo

15. Key word in context, HyperPo

18. The downloadable version comes with texts Open source version can be installed on your own server with your texts

20. Results….

21. Image Markup Tool http://www.tapor.uvic.ca/~mholmes/image_markup/ Windows only