Christian F. Hempelmann
Literature and Languages
Ontological Semantic Technology Lab
Texas A&M University-Commerce
Commerce, Texas
ontology@tamuc.edu

This breakout session will introduce participants to a digital humanities project analyzing the semantic components of words for LAUGHING and SMILING in 13 different languages. The material are the original English text and  translations of Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. The main tools are lexico-semantic word field theory and visualization with circos graphs.

10.1515/jls-2015-0008

circos.ca/

Robin Anne Reid

Department of Literature and Languages

Texas A&M University-Commerce

Commerce, TX 75429

Robin.Reid@tamuc.edu

THATCampOk 2016 Breakout Session: How to Use TextSTAT and Fan Sites

This proposal is for a TEACH session. NOTE: This will be a 2-part breakout session scheduled back-to-back

This session focuses on how to use a free and simple text analysis program called TextSTAT that I have been using several years on digital humanities projects. I define “digital humanities” as using existing (free) programs to develop my literary and cultural studies scholarship. TextSTAT can be used as a simple way to generate data about rhetorical choices on the word and phrase level for textual analysis. The program generates data on word frequency and combinations of words that can be easily exported to several different formats (Word.doc, Excel, .txt, and CVS) for analysis. Moreover, the program is easy to use (compared to other more complex text analysis programs).

Keywords:

TextSTAT

Keyword Analysis

Concordances

Fan sites

Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit

Participants will download the program to their own laptops and notebooks. The session will be primarily hands-on as we work with a text file (a small corpus) to explore the possibilities.

Information about and instructions for using TextSTAT as well as examples of output based on my current project on the reception of Tauriel can be found here:

info.library.okstate.edu/textstat

Our plenary speakers for THATCampOK 2016 workshop on May 20th will be Robin Anne Reid, Professor in the Literature and Languages Department, and Christian F. (“Kiki”) Hempelmann, Asst. Professor in Literature and Languages, at Texas A&M-Commerce.  They will be discussing their Tolkien Corpus Project in which they are creating an online corpus of the works of J.R.R. Tolkien for stylistic and semantic analysis.