Mark Algee-Hewitt

@evankindley @_akpiper Admittedly, that was also my question...

@_akpiper How would it differ from this? litlab.stanford.edu/LiteraryLabPam…

From canon to corpus. An essay someone should write.

@_akpiper In early CS, a “stop” command meant “don’t load” - I always assumed a “stop” list is a list of words that are not to be loaded (e.g. parsed)…

I should definitely know this but anyone have a link to why stop words are called "stop" words? Google just give "definition" not history.

Excited to finally see the results of the Lab's Identity project released! Many thanks to @jdporterlive and @hkpmw and all of the other @literarylab members who have helped us along the way!

We're so thrilled to see this write-up of @cilindem1's amazing STAR TEXTS project in @Harpers Italy: harpersbazaar.com/it/cultura/cin…

Several Lab members have begun working on the language of coronavirus news, the personification of germs, and literature about confinement/solitude. See @mattygw on Techne for the preliminary write-up: litlab.stanford.edu/writing-about-…

@sarahechinn I DO though stand by the sentiment that there is a particular group of humanities scholars who, even absent institutional, gender, class, or other power/identity concerns, still simply digs in and says: "NO, numbers will never convince me".

@sarahechinn I agree through that in the current context this is unhelpful, mostly because concerns about literary study don't remotely scale to the urgency of the current environmental disaster.

I worry about the disturbing parallel between some Literary scholars denying the reality or accuracy of quantitative textual models and coal company owners denying the reality or accuracy of climate change

My final response to the Critical Inquiry/CLS “debate”. @laurenfklein goes high to draw more voices into the conversation critinq.wordpress.com/2019/04/03/com… while I go low (to self-citation and numbers are meaningful too - sigh) critinq.wordpress.com/2019/04/03/com…

@RichardJeanSo @cejarvis @readingoptional @_akpiper As the lone non-senior, most-unestablished member of the CI cast, I do appreciate the chance to publicly engage in a dialogue with Da's critique, but I: 1. Wish the format was different, and 2. Wish said cast was WAY more diverse..

@cejarvis @readingoptional I understand you might disagree but I carefully use the word attack bc I believe it is so. I feel she crossed a line. She cites @_akpiper's CV and suggests financial malfeasance, which can ruin Andrew's career in Canada. I welcome critique but I feel doxxing a CV goes beyond that

@lmillernpr Although @johnewi 's suggestion would work just as well. By my count (of the 6th edition), I have 130 variation, 98 variety, and 480 varieties.

@lmillernpr Yes! This is the kind of thing that voyant-tools.org was made for. Upload "Origins", click reveal, and search for vari* in the top left quadrant

@Mark_A_H Is there an easy way for a lay person (me) to find out how many times the word "variation" and/or "variety" is used in On The Origin of Species

#ASECSat50 #142 — Saturday 8 AM: big projects! Little projects! @devoneylooser ! @Mark_A_H ! @mandellc ! @OmarFMiranda ! @zugenia ! Meta Twitter! And me, very clearly the Least Chill Person on this panel!

@Ted_Underwood @jeddobson She grounds a lot of her tautological argument by ignoring this distinction.

@Ted_Underwood @jeddobson There is a lot of subtle work that CLS does for Da. I would always say I USE computational methods to DO literary crticism (a much more complex activity). But in the article, that’s reduced to me just DOING CLS.

It’s the similarity that I can’t get over: the environment/literature is too ineffable or complex to be adequately captured by quantitative models

It’s not so much the reactionary nature of the response (LitCrit has always had a conservative streak) but more what it says about the health of the industry

Lab Director @Mark_A_H interviewed here about teaching computational methods for quantitative textual analysis: edsurge.com/news/2018-09-2…

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