TextLab

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2012 ~ Present

TextLab

Goals

To use digital tools and quantitative methods to investigate literary texts, and provide these to school students via various platforms

Issues Involved or Addressed

Deploy digital and quantitative methods to investigate the language of literary texts. Develop web and other platforms for disseminating results and methods to schools and beyond. Participants use a mixture of existing and in-house analysis tools, and plan copntent production as well as software engineering and publication schedules.

Methods and Technologies

  • Digital text-mining
  • Web devleopment tools
  • Literary analysis
  • Statistical analysis
  • Linguistic analysis

Academic Majors of Interest

  • English Studies
  • Computer and Information Science
  • Humanities

Preferred Interests and Preparation

Literature; linguistic analysis; web design and development; text mining; education

Team Advisors

Jonathan Hope

Sponsor(s)

Team Institutions