Publications & Reports

in reverse chronological order

2005 report to the Mellon Foundation on the nora Project (PDF 756KB)

Matt Kirschenbaum participates in "Franco Moretti's Graphs, Maps, Trees: A Valve Book Event" Jan 11, 2006 and thereafter. See especially "Poetry, Patterns, and Provocation: The nora Project"

Bei Yu's dissertation proposal, "An Evaluation of Text Classification Methods for Literary Study." (PDF 268KB) January 4, 2006.

Tamarind: An XML Preprocessor for Scholarly Text Analysis. Demo Video presented at MLA 2005. (MPEG 26.6MB) December, 2005.

Proposals for papers related to NORA at Digital Humanities 2006. November 15, 2006.

John Unsworth's Lyman Award Lecture, National Humanities Center. November 11, 2005. Webcast also available.

Matt Kirschenbaum, "Elective Affinities" (International Word&Image Association, Philadelphia). (PPT 1.1MB) September 27, 2005.

Bei Yu's Narrative for the Specialty Exam. (PDF 165KB) June 21, 2005.

Bei Yu's ACH/ALLC 2005 D2K panel presentation slides. (PPT 363KB) June 2005.

University of Maryland, Summer 2005 Work Proposal (PDF 268KB) May 2005.

Matt Kirschenbaum, "Getting Out of the Tool Box: Text and Data Mining for the Humanities." MLA presentation. (PPT 308KB) December, 2004.

Ye Shall Know Them By Their Verbs: A list of verbs occurring in critical essays on 18th- and 19th-century British and American literature (from journals in Project Muse) that never or rarely occur in the American National Corpus (newspaper writing, for the most part). In short, a portrait of a profession.

Steve Ramsay, "In Praise of Pattern," A paper delivered at "The Face of Text: Computer-Assisted Text Analysis in the Humanities," the third conference of the Canadian Symposium on Text Analysis (CaSTA), McMaster University, November 19-21, 2004.

John Unsworth, "Forms of Attention: Digital Humanities Beyond Representation," A paper delivered at "The Face of Text: Computer-Assisted Text Analysis in the Humanities," the third conference of the Canadian Symposium on Text Analysis (CaSTA), McMaster University, November 19-21, 2004.

John Unsworth, "Scholarly Primitives: what methods do humanities researchers have in common, and how might our tools reflect this?" Part of a symposium on "Humanities Computing: formal methods, experimental practice" sponsored by King's College, London, May 13, 2000.