Text Mining as a Research Tool in the Humanities & Social Sciences

Ryan Shaw (School of Information & Library Science, UNC Chapel Hill) will provide an overview and a critique of text-mining projects, and discuss project design, methodology, scope, integrity of data and analysis as well as preservation. This presentation will help scholars understand the research potential of text mining, and offer a summary of issues and concerns about technology and methods. About Text>Data: From close reading to distant reading, to challenging notions of what it means to read, this Duke University Libraries' Digital Scholarship series explores issues, approaches, and tools of text mining. Click "More Information" to register.