Many thanks for the suggestions so far-
And forgive the slight digression here. I think I might have had something like Mandala diagrams in mind. I actually remember seeing on some History or Discovery Channel type show a software package used to track phone numbers, etc. for linking criminal syndicates together. The phone numbers were listed around the circumference of a circle and then each number was linked to every other with a line across the circle, and the color of the line indicated the strength of the connection (in number of calls placed or received). It looked like a nifty way to see a variety of relationships within a coherent body of material. I wonder if anything like that is available for analyzing language.
Does anyone have any experience with the software used in the Canterbury Tales Project?
dkline
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Daniel T. Kline, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of English
U of Alaska Anchorage (PSB 212-C)
3211 Providence Drive
Anchorage, Alaska 99508
907-786-4364 | afdtk@uaa.alaska.edu
The Electronic Canterbury Tales:
http://afdtk.uaa.alaska.edu/ect_main.htm
"Fortunately, I keep my feathers numbered
for just such an emergency."
Well if I can promote the other organisation I work for: here's a link to the TEI members meeting programme: http://www.tei-c.org/Members/2006-Victoria/
The paper I am thinking of was (10:30, friday morning):
Stéfan Sinclair (McMaster University), Anthony Sapp (McMaster University), and Stan Ruecker (University of Alberta): "Experimental Reading: A humanities visualization toolset for the TEI"
I see they have their slides up (I should get my talk up!). It was quite good, especially if you know what to make of it. They were doing analysis almost identical to what it sounds like you want to do, in their case using Shakespeare--though I think that was just an example.
-dan
On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 16:49 -0900, Dan Kline wrote:
Many thanks for the suggestions so far—
And forgive the slight digression here. I think I might have had something like Mandala diagrams in mind. I actually remember seeing on some History or Discovery Channel type show a software package used to track phone numbers, etc. for linking criminal syndicates together. The phone numbers were listed around the circumference of a circle and then each number was linked to every other with a line across the circle, and the color of the line indicated the strength of the connection (in number of calls placed or received). It looked like a nifty way to see a variety of relationships within a coherent body of material. I wonder if anything like that is available for analyzing language.
Does anyone have any experience with the software used in the Canterbury Tales Project?
dkline
Daniel T. Kline, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of English
U of Alaska Anchorage (PSB 212-C)
3211 Providence Drive
Anchorage, Alaska 99508
907-786-4364 | afdtk@uaa.alaska.edu
The Electronic Canterbury Tales:
http://afdtk.uaa.alaska.edu/ect_main.htm
"Fortunately, I keep my feathers numbered
for just such an emergency."
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Dan Kline wrote:
Many thanks for the suggestions so far—
Could I also suggest Xaira, http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/rts/xaira/
And forgive the slight digression here. I think I might have had something like Mandala diagrams in mind. I actually remember seeing on some History or Discovery Channel type show a software package used to track phone numbers, etc. for linking criminal syndicates together. The phone numbers were listed around the circumference of a circle and then each number was linked to every other with a line across the circle, and the color of the line indicated the strength of the connection (in number of calls placed or received). It looked like a nifty way to see a variety of relationships within a coherent body of material. I wonder if anything like that is available for analyzing language.
As others have suggested (but maybe not given the URL): http://mandala.humviz.org/
Does anyone have any experience with the software used in the Canterbury Tales Project?
As Peter Robinson is on the list, I would have to guess that answer is yes.
-James --- Dr James Cummings, Oxford Text Archive, University of Oxford
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