I'm interested in the ways different words are tied together. That's sort of the universal feature of this project, so figuring out ways to find them would be useful. I already looked at some ways of finding
interesting words for "scientific method," but that was in the context of the related words as an endpoint of the analysis. I want to be able to automatically generate linked words, as well. I'm going to think through this staying on "capitalist" as the word of the day. Fair warning: this post is a rambler.
Earlier I looked at some sentences to conclude that language about capitalism has always had critics in the American press (more, Dan said in the comments, than some of the historiography might suggest). Can we find this by looking at numbers, rather than just random samples of text? Let's start with a log-scale chart about what words get used in the same sentence as "capitalist" or "capitalists" between 1918 and 1922. (I'm going to just say capitalist, but my numbers include the plural too).
