SunoikisisDC: Analysing and visualising texts

Speakers: Kaspar Beelen (University of London), Gabriel Bodard (University of London), Megan Bushnell (Oxford Text Archive)

Sunoikisis Digital Classics session 6

This session introduces theory and practice of various digital methods for the exploration, analysis and visualisation of historical texts. We begin with theoretical discussion of quantitative, stylistic and computational linguistic approaches to text analysis, defining terms, some history of the discipline, and an overview of tools and codebases available. The second half of the session is a practical demonstration of using the Voyant Tools reading and analysis environment, showing examples in English, Latin and Greek and some of the visulaisation modules in Voyant. We end with a suggested exercise for students to take away and try in their own time, and a general discussion.

Follow live or later at: https://youtu.be/xNihExxxOy0

Further information, readings and exercise at: https://github.com/SunoikisisDC/SunoikisisDC-2024-2025/wiki/6-Analysing-Texts