Meeting (2019-01-24) UM Comparison Corpus Team Meeting 1

Meeting Time: Thursday, Jan 24, 2 - 4 pm (Eastern)

Meeting Location: Faculty Exploratory, Richter Library room 305

Meeting Zoom: We'll use Lindsays's "instant" Zoom ID (our default meeting Zoom): https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/4340537177

Purpose of today's meeting

Introduce and begin the work of compiling the comparison corpus

0. Preliminary Business

Timesheets: Feb timesheets due to me by 2/13/19!
Any questions about the project that have come up since last week's workshop?
Team Google drive folder: does everyone have access?

Comparison corpus team work plan

1. Introduction to the Comparison Corpus team work

Why we are collecting the data
How we are going to collect the data: collect articles containing everything BUT the humanities from selected sources
What collecting the data actually looks like when I do it

Lexis Nexis data collection form
Form responses spreadsheet
Example queries csv
Collection script
Collecting data from LN API using Portainer

What and how much data should we collect? Principles informing parallel corpus construction
Text classification: what is it?
Questions and discussion

2. Initial Tasks

Everyone: Read, or re-read as the case may be, the following two articles:

Hoyt Long and Richard Jean So's article, "Literary Pattern Recognition: Modernism between Close Reading and Machine Learning," shared via Ryver. Focus on the section titled "The English Haiku as Statistical Pattern"
Andrew Piper and Eva Portelace, "How Cultural Capital Works: Prizewinning Novels, Bestsellers, and the Time of Reading." Focus on the sections titled "Representing Genre Space" and "Natural Time v. Clock Time"

Need two volunteers: Research parallel corpus construction in linguistics and in literary studies
Need two volunteers: Input collection queries into form for collection (top 10 US sources as a starting point)

Planning for Future Meetings

Next all-hands meetings (all will be from 1 pm - 3 pm EST):

Jan. 31, location TBD
Feb. 7, Faculty Exploratory (Library room 305)
Feb. 28, Faculty Exploratory (Library room 305)
Mar. 14 (UM spring break) (remote meeting via Zoom -- you are not required/expected to attend, but it is paid time if you want to attend the meeting)

Next UM team meetings (all will be from 3 - 4 pm EST):

Jan 31, location TBD
Feb 7, Faculty Exploratory (Library room 305)
Feb 28, Faculty Exploratory (Library room 305)