Introduction As a child, I had a deep fascination with dystopian novels. For me, they became a way to escape reality and live in a different world for a little while. However, as I got older, I began to realize that these novels may not be too far a reach from reality. A dystopian world […]

Gender in Victorian Novels By Ciara McAloon   There is so much information that can be gleaned from novels; they provide insight into the cultural settings of their times. But analyzing a novel by reading and re-reading can only go so far. With word vector analysis, there is so much more room for analysis, because […]

Introduction In this post, I’ll be using word vectors to explain what I believe to be the cause of the significant lack of women in the world of engineering. While I’m certainly no expert authority in the world of STEM or that of feminism, I do find myself taking quite an interest into why these […]

In gathering my corpora, I decided to collect the folklore stories from the Project Gutenberg website. When collecting each corpus from each country, I wanted to have a diverse amount of folklores from each country yet with the same amount from each country so that it wasn’t biased towards one country or another. When I looked […]

Introduction I have always had an interest in World War II and all the different events that transpired during that critical time period. It fascinates me to study and read about stories of perseverance and hardship, and how that generation’s experiences shaped our mentality of war and patriotism today. However, one aspect of the war […]

Introduction For my first project using word vectors, I chose to look into the works of James Joyce. Now you may be asking: why James Joyce, did he even write enough words to get reliable answers, or what kind of meaningful data can you even get from just one author? And I promise the answers are […]

What are word vectors? This semester I’ve been learning a lot about word vector models as a tool in analyzing large corpora of text. These models have recently become extremely popular in fields of computational linguistics and corpus analysis, as they can start predicting words that are used in similar contexts to others if they […]

Women in Wartime https://www.gutenberg.org/files/47775/47775-0.txt

Introduction This is my first project using Word2Vec. I’m really more of a math and computer science guy than a literature one, though I think found some cool results in this project and the analysis Word2Vec allows you do to is quite amazing! I chose to do my topic on the African Americans in the […]