Computational Text Analysis: What are topic models for?

Computational Text Analysis Working Group (CTAWG)

Title: What are topic models for?

Abstract: Cody Hennesy and David Naughton from the University of Minnesota will report back on a project using topic models to generate new hypotheses about 85 years of scholarly literature in library & information science. Cody will also (1) talk aboutConstellate, a new platform that provides text mining access to millions of scholarly articles, historical US newspapers, and digital archives, and (2) ask for your data cleaning advice on a new web scraping project.

Presenter: Cody Hennesy, Journalism & Digital Media Librarian, University of Minnesota & David Naughton, Library Data and Technology, University of Minnesota

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