Allen Beye Riddell

PhD Student
Duke University
Program in Literature
Durham, North Carolina
PGP

Research

My current work explores how intellectual and literary historians might use statistics and machine learning to study very large text collections (of books, academic journals, newspapers, etc.).

• JUL 2012

  • A Simple Topic Model (Mixture of Unigrams) »
  • Studying the History of German Studies with Topic Models »
• MAR 2012

  • How to read 16,700 journal articles: studying German Studies with topic models »
• FEB 2012

  • Where are the Novels? »
• MAY 2011

  • Reconstructing the List of 44 British Novelistic Genres in Graphs, Maps, Trees »