Tools for Thinking, Thinking Tools: MLA Convention, December 30, 2005

Title Text Modeling Structured Search Full-text Search Spreading Activation Example: British Museum Document Clustering 1 Document Clustering 2 Limitations Literary Toolkit Austen: Emma Richardson: Clarissa Conclusion

Conclusion

Pattern recognition becomes more effective with greater quantities of data

Useful visualizations are necessary to navigate such large corpora

Cannot compare to expert cataloging, but statistical approximations are still very helpful

Shown to be useful in a variety of domains

Discovering patterns computationally is not the same as thinking, but it is close

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