Arriving at an Understanding of Computational Linguistics' Virtues - Lecture 1

Explore the virtues of computational linguistics in this 22-minute lecture from the Foundations & Applications of Humanities Analytics course. Gain insights into corpus linguistics, sampling techniques, measurement methods, and result interpretation. Discover how digital humanities and cultural analytics empower scholars to extract meaning from digital sources. Learn about natural language processing, topic modeling, and probability in text analysis. Understand the theoretical and practical aspects of computational text analysis to enhance humanities scholarship. This lecture, presented by Julia Lefkowitz, is part of a comprehensive course offered by Complexity Explorer, made possible in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.