The fictionality of topic modeling: Machine reading Anthony Trollope's Barsetshire series

This essay describes how using unsupervised topic modeling (specifically the latent Dirichlet allocation topic modeling algorithm in MALLET) on relatively small corpuses can help scholars of literature circumvent the limitations of some existing theories of the novel. Using an example drawn from wor...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rachel Sagner Buurma
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2015-12-01
Series:Big Data & Society
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951715610591