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Toward an Augmented Criticism
All literary criticism is exemplary, but some literary criticism is more exemplary than others. A brief introduction to the Augmented Criticism Lab, one of my current research projects. What does that...
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Talk: Unnatural Language and Natural Thinking
I’m giving a talk on the University of Calgary campus (in SS 1015) on Friday December 2, 2016 at 3:15pm. Title Unnatural Language and Natural Thinking: Shakespeare and His Contemporaries Abstract...
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What can Machine Learning do for Literary Critics?
First in a series of posts about artificial intelligence sparked by “The Great AI Awakening,” an article from December 2016 by Gideon Lewis-Kraus in the New York Times Magazine. Cross-posted to The...
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Find all the Figures
What? “Ask not what your country can do for you.” Instead, ask what the next line is from President Kennedy’s 1961 inaugural address. Most will remember the second part of that familiar sentence: “but...
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Get with the Programming
(This continues my previous post on this research project, about my questions and initial steps.) This week I’m away to the Pacific Northwest Renaissance Conference to deliver a paper on rhetorical...
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Varieties of Chiasmus in 68 Plays
This is an expanded version of the paper that I delivered at the Pacific Northwest Renaissance Society meeting in Portland, Oregon on 21 October 2017. You can download the slideshow in PDF. Two earlier...
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NLP for Literary Critics: An Introduction and Tutorial
Preface: Knowledge and Information Shall I compare thee, human, to a machine? Thou art more critical and more intemperate (Shakespeare, Sonnet 18). But seriously: how do human readers compare to...
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John Donne and the Sonnet Problem
What makes a sonnet? For most early modern examples, the answer is clear: a 14-line rhyming poem, its form either Shakespearean (three quatrains and a couplet) or Petrarchan (an octave and a sestet)....
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Quantifying the Miltonic Sonnet
(This paper was presented at the University of British Columbia in a joint session of the Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies and the Canadian Society for Digital Humanities at Congress 2019. You...
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The Augmented Criticism Lab’s Sonnet Database
This is the text of a short paper I delivered at the Digital Humanities 2019 conference in Utrecht, the Netherlands on 12 July 2019. The Augmented Criticism Lab’s Sonnet Database is in beta release. To...
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