Exploring erotics in Emily Dickinson's correspondence with text mining and visual interfaces

This paper describes a system to support humanities scholars in their interpretation of literary work. It presents a user interface and web architecture that integrates text mining, a graphical user interface and visualization, while attempting to remain easy to use by non specialists. Users can interactively read and rate documents found in a digital libraries collection, prepare training sets, review results of classification algorithms and explore possible indicators and explanations. Initial evaluation steps suggest that there is a rationale for “provocational” text mining in literary interpretation. Categories and Subject Descriptors J.5 [Arts and Humanities]: Literature; H.3.6 [Library Automation]: Large text archives; H.5.2 [Information Interfaces and Presentation]: User Interfaces. I.5.4 [Pattern Recognition]: Applications – Text Processing General Terms Design, Experimentation, Human Factors Keywords User interface, text mining, visualization, literary criticism, humani...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: JCDL
• Authors: Catherine Plaisant, James Rose, Bei Yu, Loretta Auvil, Matthew G. Kirschenbaum, Martha Nell Smith, Tanya Clement, Greg Lord
• Keywords: Graphical User Interface, JCDL 2006, Text Mining, User Interface