This course is a part of HF's PhD week.
Learning outcomes
In this workshop, you will learn the basics of what text mining is, and what the central types and tools of text mining are.
You will learn how to upload and edit a corpus in Voyant, and use some of its central text mining tools that facilitates a combination of distant and close readings. You will learn how to illustrate your data with plots, graphs, and networks that visualize word frequencies, distributions, and proximities with a few clicks.
Voyant accepts several file formats, and recognizes many languages, and is therefore a popular choice for researchers in digital humanities and has a large, international user base.
With an extensive tool menu, Voyant allows for popular types of text mining analysis such as retrieving concordances, collocates, correlations, and topics. You will become familiar with these and also have the chance to explore other Voyant tools.
Registration
The course is open to PhD fellows, completion grant holders, and post-doctoral fellows at the Faculty of Humanities, other UiO faculties, and external PhD fellows. Registration opens February 20 at 12:00 and priority is given to PhDs and postdocs from the Faculty of Humanities. We ask that PhDs and postdocs from other Faculties at UiO, and other applicants, wait until on March 1 to register. Registration closes when the course has reached its maximum number of participants.
Practical information
Please bring your laptop with the provided corpus file downloaded. Also please bring a corpus of your own choice that you would like to explore.
Working methods
Demonstration with practical examples and exercises. Instruction in English, but we can also answer questions in Norwegian.
Target group
PhDs and postdocs from the Faculty of Humanities.
Teachers
Anne Sæbø, PhD from the Digital Scholarship Centre / University Library