{"title":"Citations, contexts, and humanistic discourse: Toward automatic extraction and classification","authors":"C. Sula, Matthew Miller","doi":"10.1093/llc/fqu019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqu019","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines prospects and limitations of citation studies in the humanities. We begin by presenting an overview of bibliometric analysis, noting several barriers to applying this method in the humanities. Following that, we present an experimental tool for extracting and classifying citation contexts in humanities journal articles. This tool reports the bibliographic information about each reference, as well as three features about its context(s): frequency, locationin-document, and polarity. We found that extraction was highly successful (above 85%) for three of the four journals, and statistics for the three citation figures were broadly consistent with previous research. We conclude by noting several limitations of the sentiment classifier and suggesting future areas for refinement. .................................................................................................................................................................................","PeriodicalId":235034,"journal":{"name":"Lit. Linguistic Comput.","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126345600","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Judy Malloy's seat at the (database) table: A feminist reception history of early hypertext literature","authors":"K. Berens","doi":"10.1093/llc/fqu037","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqu037","url":null,"abstract":"When Robert Coover anointed Michael Joyce the ‘granddaddy’ of hypertext literature in a 1992 New York Times article, it could scarcely have been imagined that this pronouncement would come to define the origin of electronic literature. This short article examines the human and machinic operations obscuring Judy Malloy’s Uncle Roger, a hypertext that predates afternoon. Malloy’s reputation was stunted because Uncle Roger was algorithmically invisible, a factor that became increasingly important as the Web’s commercial capacities matured. afternoon’s endurance can be traced to its ISBN, which made afternoon easy for readers to find and united disparate stewards in preserving access to this work. Malloy’s programming expertise and the goodwill among hypertext authors were insufficient to protect her against sexist exclusions that, in aggregate, fostered enduring disequilibria. While some male pioneers of hypertext are now full professors, Malloy and other early female hypertext pioneers are adjuncts or are otherwise at a remove from the academic power base. Ironically, Judy Malloy’s papers— 13,200 items, 15.6 linear feet—are collected at Duke University’s Rubenstein Library, but Judy herself still seeks sustained academic employment. This gesture is read in the context of pursuing the digital humanities ‘for love’ in a higher education environment that’s increasingly neoliberal in its financial allegiances. ................................................................................................................................................................................. Before I read Jill Walker Rettberg’s (2012) excellent ‘Electronic Literature Seen From a Distance: The Beginnings of a Field’, I’d suspected that Judy Malloy’s elision from the electronic literature reception history as the first author of hypertext fiction was attributable to genre. Her comic piece Uncle Roger, a romp through Silicon Valley set in thenpresent day 1986, did not evince the seriousness, ambiguity, and intricate plotting that critics and other purveyors of taste associate with high art. I accepted without question Robert Coover’s (1992) declaration of Michael Joyce’s afternoon, a story as the ‘granddaddy of full-length hypertext fictions’, even though Malloy’s Uncle Roger predates Joyce’s afternoon by at least 1 year and possibly 3 years, if one measures from afternoon’s publication date (1990) rather than its introduction to the coterie of enthusiasts who exchanged stories authored on Hypercard and other systems. afternoon is a magnificent work that merits its august reputation. But Rettberg traces the far-reaching implications of Joyce’s reputation in her distant reading, which demonstrates that afternoon is far and away the Correspondence:","PeriodicalId":235034,"journal":{"name":"Lit. Linguistic Comput.","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127081111","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"'The Sounds of the Psalter: Computational Analysis of Soundplay'","authors":"D. C. Benner","doi":"10.1093/llc/fqu024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqu024","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":235034,"journal":{"name":"Lit. Linguistic Comput.","volume":"75 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127338799","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Geographic visualization of place names in Swedish literary texts","authors":"L. Borin, Dana Dannélls, Leif-Jöran Olsson","doi":"10.1093/LLC/FQU021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/LLC/FQU021","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":235034,"journal":{"name":"Lit. Linguistic Comput.","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130473980","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Simulation of the Complex System of Speech Interaction: Digital Visualizations","authors":"W. Kretzschmar, I. Juuso","doi":"10.1093/llc/fqu015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqu015","url":null,"abstract":"Computer simulation is the only practical way to model diffusion of cultural features, including speech. We describe the use of a cellular automaton to model feature diffusion as the adaptive aspect of the complex system of speech. Throughout hundreds of iterations that correspond to the daily interaction of speakers across time, we can watch regional distributional patterns emerge as a consequence of simple update rules. A key feature of our simulations is validation with respect to distributions known to occur in survey data. We focus on the importance of appropriate visualizations to observe what is happening during the process of diffusion, with comparison between visualizations of actual survey data and visualizations applied to our simulation. In this way we believe that we are breaking new ground in simulation of cultural interactions as complex systems. The study of speech as a complex system addresses language as an aspect of culture that emerges from human interaction. We believe that successful simulation of speech in cultural interaction as a complex system can suggest how other aspects of the humanities, such as sites or artifacts or styles in archaeology, can diffuse and change across space and time. Our successful simulation confirms our complex systems approach, and indicates how appropriate use of visualizations makes this possible.","PeriodicalId":235034,"journal":{"name":"Lit. Linguistic Comput.","volume":"73 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127513945","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction: Freedom to Explore","authors":"B. Nowviskie","doi":"10.1093/llc/fqu036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqu036","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":235034,"journal":{"name":"Lit. Linguistic Comput.","volume":"87 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133117180","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Geographical and linguistic diversity in the Digital Humanities","authors":"I. G. Russell","doi":"10.1093/llc/fqu005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqu005","url":null,"abstract":"Digital Humanities (DH) has come a long way towards establishing itself as a dynamic and innovative field of study. However, it has been pointed out that the DH community predominantly comprises scholars from a handful of mainly English-speaking countries, and a current challenge is achieving a broader internationalization of the DH community. This article provides an overview of the landscape in terms of geo-linguistic diversity, as well as reviewing current DH initiatives to broaden regional and linguistic diversity and identifies some of the main challenges ahead. The aim of this article is to serve as a benchmark of the current situation and suggest areas where further research is required. ................................................................................................................................................................................. 1. Geographical and Linguistic Diversity in the Digital Humanities Digital Humanities (DH) has come a long way towards establishing itself as a recognizable and valued area of academic activity. Pannapacker’s much cited comment that ‘Digital Humanities is the Next Big Thing’ (Pannapacker, 2009) is just the beginning of an array of articles, both within the academic and general press, about DH and its importance. Over the past few years, many DH centres and departments together with postgraduate courses have been created; the annual International DH Conference grows continuously and there are a number of other DH-related conferences, meetings, and events around the world. In the USA, the National Endowment for the Humanities created the Office of Digital Humanities, an important institutionalized recognition that DH projects are relevant and viable, and the term is rapidly becoming accepted by other funding agencies. In addition to the long-standing DH journals, in recent times, a number of books specifically describing the field have been published. All of these point towards an academic, networked, and productive community of scholars engaged in similar activities. As the community has grown, so has the amount of attention it receives and with it has come an increasing pressure to define exactly what is meant by the term Digital Humanities. Although historically the DH community has grappled with a definition, over the past few years there have been more vocal disagreements as we struggle to define what DH ‘is’ and what DH ‘does’. As Gold writes in his introduction to ‘Debates in the DH’, this is ‘a field in the midst of growing pains as its adherents expand from a small circle of like-minded scholars to a more heterogeneous set of practitioners who sometimes ask more disruptive questions’ (Gold, 2012). Coupled with the problem of defining DH (what we ‘are’ and what we ‘do’) there is now an additional and ineludible problem: ‘who is ‘‘we’’?’ Traditionally, DH has been built on a strong sense of community and much work over the past few decades has been done by enthusiastic and gen","PeriodicalId":235034,"journal":{"name":"Lit. Linguistic Comput.","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121625941","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Oral formulaic composition and associative linking in John Miles Foley's Pathways Project: a reviewOral Tradition and the Internet. Pathways of the Mind. John Miles Foley","authors":"R. Ammann","doi":"10.1093/llc/fqt055","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqt055","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":235034,"journal":{"name":"Lit. Linguistic Comput.","volume":"196 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116204448","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Macroanalysis. Digital Methods and Literary History. Matthew L. Jockers","authors":"M. Kestemont","doi":"10.1093/LLC/FQT056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/LLC/FQT056","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":235034,"journal":{"name":"Lit. Linguistic Comput.","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132105846","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}