Mark Algee-Hewitt, Ryan Heuser, and Franco Moretti of the Stanford Literary Lab present their research on the "natural habitat of topics": paragraphs.
Paragraphs represent a stylistic middle ground within a text, falling somewhere between the "very small" (words) and the "very large" (the text itself). But do paragraphs serve their own functional purpose? Using topic modeling techniques to discern the themes that appear between paragraph breaks, Mark Algee-Hewitt, Ryan Heuser, and Franco Moretti of the Stanford Literary Lab set out to show that paragraphs may, indeed, transcend the words that compose them.
Micromégas: The Very Small, the Very Large, and the Object of Digital Humanities
Introduction
by Franco Moretti
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Piketty’s Model: Literary History Without Fixed Objects
by Ted Underwood
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Paragraphs: The Forgotten Middle
by Mark Algee-Hewitt, Ryan Heuser, and Franco Moretti
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Small, Large, ‘What’ and ‘So What’: Perspectives and Challenges in Corpus Linguistics
by Susan Conrad
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From Numbers to Evidence: Computer-Assisted Scholarship in the Million-Book Era
by David Mimno
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