Category Archives: Counting Other Things

Shakespeare’s mythic vocabulary – and his invisible grammar

By Jonathan Hope | Published: February 14, 2012

Universities in the UK are under pressure to demonstrate the ‘impact’ of their research. In many ways, this is fair enough: public taxes account for the vast majority of UK University income, so it is reasonable for the public to expect academics to attempt to communicate with them about their work. University press offices have [...]

Also posted in Early Modern Drama, Shakespeare | Tagged Alan Shearer, Daily Telegraph, Holger Syme, Huffington Post, Hugh Craig, Jackie Milburn, Malcolm Macdonald, Newcastle United, Robert Valenza, shakespeare's grammar, Shakespeare's vocabulary, Ward Elliott | 1 Comment

Finding the Sherlock in Shakespeare: some ideas about prose genre and linguistic uniqueness

By Victor Lenthe | Published: October 29, 2011

An unexpected point of linguistic similarity between plot-driven mystery fiction and Shakespeare plays lead to a consideration of textual similarities that remain invisible in the normal process of reading.

Also posted in Quant Theory, Shakespeare | 2 Comments

Lost Books, “Missing Matter,” and the Google 1-Gram Corpus

By Michael Witmore | Published: January 3, 2011

My colleague Mike Gleicher (UW-Madison Computer Science) has been working on a rough and ready visualization of popular words (1-grams) in the Google English Books corpus, which contains several million items. He produced this visualization after working with the dataset for a day. I find the visualization appealing because of what it shows us about [...]

Posted in Counting Other Things | Tagged dark matter, function words, Google n-grams, lost books, Michael Gleicher, OCR, visualization | 2 Comments

Google n-grams and Philosophy: Use Versus Mention

By Michael Witmore | Published: December 17, 2010

Well, the Google n-gram corpus is out, and the world has been introduced to a fabulous new intellectual parlor game. Here are a few searches I ran today which deal with philosophers and philosophical terms: A lot of people are going to be playing with this tool, and I think there are some genuine discoveries [...]

Posted in Counting Other Things | Tagged Daniel Shore, Google, proper names, use/mention | 1 Comment

Early and Late Plato II: The Apology and The Timaeus

By Michael Witmore | Published: March 14, 2010

In the previous post we were examining three dimensional clusterings of the Platonic dialogues as rated on scaled Principal Components 1, 2 and 5, a technique that allowed us to see the early Platonic dialogues (as defined by Vlastos) standing apart from the middle and later ones. Vlastos’ claim, we remember, was that these early [...]

Posted in Counting Other Things | Tagged comedy, irony, Socrates, Vlastos | Leave a comment
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