My presentation of our work at the Text Mining Workshop 2008 held in conjunction with Eighth SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM 2008) in Atlanta, GA on April 26, 2008.

1. Engineering Knowledge for the Humanities
Text Mining Workshop
April 26, 2008
Loretta Auvil
National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
University of Illinois

2. No Formulas

3. More Visualizations
www.visualcomplexity.com

4. NoraVis OpenLaszlo
www.noraproject.org

5. NoraVis Backend
• Leverages D2K as web service call for predictive modeling
• Passing parameters for some options
• Known modeling problems:
• Training on a very sparse set of words, so improvements in
modeling can be achieved through additional semantic additions

6. MONK
www.monkproject.org