Exploring erotics in Emily Dickinson's correspondence with text mining and visual interfaces
Catherine Plaisant, James C. Rose, Bei Yu, Loretta Sue Auvil, Matthew Kirschenbaum, Martha Nell Smith, Tanya Clement, Greg Lord · 2006
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.