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Jan 19 2016
Arranging the novels from the txtLAB

Andrew Piper announced yesterday that the McGill text lab is releasing their corpus of modern novels in three languages. One of first thoughts with any corpus is: what existing Bookworm methods might add some value here? It only took about ten minutes to write the code to import it into a bookworm; the challenge is figuring how methods developed for millions of books can be useful on a set of just 450.