WORD LAB is an interest group at Penn Libraries focused on text analysis in all disciplines. Unless announced otherwise on our listserv, we meet every Wednesday 2-3:30pm in 526 Van Pelt (East Asian Seminar Room, 5th Floor).
We have an approximately three-week rotating schedule:
- Week 1: A discussion or workshop based on current research, with speakers either in person or via Skype.
- Week 2: Read and discuss an article or project.
- Week 3: Work together on solutions to Natural Langauge Processing with Python and other
See our current schedule on our Facebook page. For more information or to join our mailing list, please email Molly Des Jardin at University of Pennsylvania Libraries.
Upcoming Events:
Previous Schedules:
Spring 2016
March 1: Mark Ravina, Emory University
March 8: Benjamin Mangrum, Davidson College
March 15: Article discussion - Underwood, Ted; Sellers, Jordan (2015): How Quickly Do Literary Standards Change? and related blog post
March 22: Python NLTK session - Chapter 2 (see our progress so far)
March 29: The Early Novels Database Project presentation
April 5: Article discussion TBA
April 12: Python NLTK session
April 19: Liz Rodrigues, Temple University
April 26: Article discussion TBA
May 3: Python NLTK session