Exploring erotics in Emily Dickinson's correspondence with text mining and visual interfaces

Authors:
Catherine Plaisant;James Rose;Bei Yu;Loretta Auvil;Matthew G. Kirschenbaum;Martha Nell Smith;Tanya Clement;Greg Lord
Affiliations:
University of Maryland;University of Maryland;University of Illinois;University of Illinois;University of Maryland;University of Maryland;University of Maryland;University of Maryland
Venue:
Proceedings of the 6th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
Year:
2006

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Abstract

This paper describes a system to support humanities scholars in their interpretation of literary work. It presents a user interface and web architecture that integrates text mining, a graphical user interface and visualization, while attempting to remain easy to use by non specialists. Users can interactively read and rate documents found in a digital libraries collection, prepare training sets, review results of classification algorithms and explore possible indicators and explanations. Initial evaluation steps suggest that there is a rationale for "provocational" text mining in literary interpretation.