Hi Jaime,
Damn, Tom beat me to it...
Yes, Hestia has been investigating Herodotus's representation of space, (reusing) a text taken from the Perseus Classical Library and geolocating the placenames (along the lines set out by the Pelagios project). While this is *just* a spatial/platial analysis, it still might be useful for you to see what we've been doing and for you to build on it (all our stuff is open).
We have a number of publications that you might want to consult, which lay out both how we developed the digital resources and applied them for a spatial analysis of Herodotus, as well as some of the missteps taken:
Barker, E., Bouzarovski, S., Pelling, C. and Isaksen, L. (2010): Mapping an ancient historian in a digital age: the Herodotus Encoded Space-Text-Image Archive (HESTIA). Leeds International Classical Journal (http://www.leeds.ac.uk/classics/lics/).
Barker, E., Isaksen, L, Rabinowitz, N., Bouzarovski, S. and Pelling, C. (2013): On using a digital text in modern humanities research: the case of Herodotus’ Histories. In: S. Dunn and S. Mahony (eds.), Digital Classicist Supplement: Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies. Oxford, 45-62.
Barker, E., Bouzarovski, S., Pelling, C. and Isaksen, L. (2013): Writing space, living space: time, agency and place relations in Herodotus’s Histories. In: J. Heirman and J. Klooster (eds.), The Ideologies of Lived Space: Ancient and Modern. Leiden, 229-247.
An OUP book will be coming out at the end of the year (to which Tom contributes).
You might also like to check out a follow up project called GAP (Google Ancient Places), which we extended the idea of extracting and visualising places in 1 text to the whole of the Google Books (or any) corpus:
https://googleancientplaces.wordpress.com/
The visualisation that we developed for that project (GapVis: http://gap.alexandriaarchive.org/gapvis/index.html)) and that we've subsequently retroactively applied to Hestia (http://www2.open.ac.uk/openlearn/hestia/index.html#index) has its code on GitHub:
https://github.com/enridaga/gapvis
One of the forks off has been developed by the Hellespont project, which - if I understand the concept correctly - does some of the topic modelling that you're talking about, in relation to Thucydides (http://hellespont.dainst.org/startpage/docu.html).
Lastly, I've also been doing some work with the Institute of Informatics in Leipzig, developing browser based visualisations of Herodotus's networks. The folk I worked with, Gerhard Heyer ([log in to unmask]) and Thomas Efer ([log in to unmask]), would be happy to share their work, if it's in any way helpful.
In any case, let me know if there's anything I can help with.
cheers
elton
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From: Tom Brughmans [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 14 July 2015 12:25
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Subject: Re: [DIGITALCLASSICIST] Topic modeling on classical texts?
Hi Jaime,
The Hestia project will be of interest to you: http://hestia.open.ac.uk/
The exploration of place names in Herodotus' Histories using an annotated version of the text was the focus of the first part of this project, and it was followed by a series of conferences on how the insights of this project could have wider use. Make sure to check the resources on their website, which will definitely help you on your way.
All the best,
Tom
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On Tuesday, July 14, 2015 1:19 PM, "Dilley, Paul C" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Hi Jaime,
I’m currently working on topic modeling the Septuagint, New Testament, and select apocryphal texts (a comparatively small corpus). I also just taught a graduate seminar this spring on distant reading Latin literature using R, in which several students developed topic models for Classical texts, the Patrologia Latina, and these two corpora combined. This is very complex and provisional work, which we’re continuing to refine, but also very exciting. Glad to hear that others are interested as well!
Best,
Paul
Paul Dilley
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Department of Religious Studies, Department of Classics
The University of Iowa
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From: The Digital Classicist List [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Jaime Ranchal [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2015 5:03 AM
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Subject: [DIGITALCLASSICIST] Topic modeling on classical texts?
Dear all,
I'm trying to apply some topic modeling on Herodotus' text for my PhD dissertation and I´d like to know if there is any project or research using this approach or something similar, for reference and - who knows - future collaboration? For anyone who doesn't know what I'm talking about, this introduction to topic modeling by Scott Weingart<http://www.scottbot.net/HIAL/?p=19113> is what got me into this kind of research. Also, feel free to browse my newborn Zotero group<https://www.zotero.org/groups/topic_modeling_classics> for some readings about this, and of course join it if you´ve got more material!
Thank you, and best wishes,
Jaime Ranchal
PhD student at Universidad de Granada (Spain)
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