Sapping Attention

Before Christmas, I spelled out a few ways of thinking about historical texts as related to other texts based on their use of different word...

In addition to finding the similarities in use between particular isms , we can look at their similarities in general. Since we have the dis...

What can we do with this information we’ve gathered about unexpected occurrences? The most obvious thing is simply to look at what words app...

Now to the final term in my sentence from earlier — “How often, compared to what we would expect, does a given word appear with a...

This is the second post on ways to measure connections—or more precisely, distance—between words by looking at how often they appear togethe...

Ties between words are one of the most important things computers can tell us about language. I already looked at one way of looking at conn...

A collection as large as the Internet Archive's OCR database means I have to think through what I want well in advance of doing it. I...