We provide consultations about text analysis, a computational approach to studying texts. Sometimes referred to as text mining or distant reading, it relies on a suite of tools to quantify textual elements in order to identify meaningful patterns. Some areas of text analysis include:
We can assist you in conducting text analysis by developing testable hypotheses, formatting text for machine analysis, and getting started with text analysis tools.
Southern Changes is a journal published by the Southern Regional Council between 1978 and 2003. ECDS maintains a digital archive of the TEI-encoded journal that provides a thematic browsing page based on topic modeling, a form of quantitative text analysis.
The Complete Prose of T.S. Eliot: The Critical Edition is an 8-volume annotated publication featuring all extant published and unpublished prose of the poet T.S. Eliot. Edited by a team of scholars led by Emory professor emeritus Dr. Ronald Schuchard, the text of the edition was encoded for web publication by ECDS.
A decades-long collaboration led by Dr. Lois Overbeck, this project seeks to collect, consult and transcribe all the extant letters of the Irish writer Samuel Beckett. ECDS assisted with building a dataset and website that allows users to explore an index of the people, places, events and works referenced in the letters.