http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/text-mining-and-personality-analysis Digital Humanities Questions & Answers » Topic: Text Mining and Personality Analysis en-US Fri, 04 Oct 2013 22:45:01 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/search.php http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/text-mining-and-personality-analysis#post-1493 Mon, 19 Dec 2011 00:15:21 +0000 Roger Whitson 1493@http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/ <p>Hi all, </p> <p>One of our faculty wants to use text-mining to engage in some kind of personality analysis of 19th-century literary characters. Here's what they said about the project: </p> <p>"I am a faculty member in psychology and, along with Professor Reed in English, I am embarking on a project in which we are combining personality theory and fictional characters. Im not sure what is possible digitally, but we hope to be able to scan fictional texts for a variety of words, phrases, descriptors and the like which will give us clues about the ways in which authors apply various conceptions of personality and theory of mind."</p> <p>It seems to me this is a pretty simple text-mining project that could possibly be done with either Voyeur or WordSeer. Does anyone have any other suggestions? Thanks! </p>