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Mining for meanings

May 9, 2012 By Tim Sherratt in digital humanities, speeches 2 Comments Tags: QueryPic, text mining, tfidf, Trove

Yes, I have a suit. On 8 May at the National Library of Australia I gave my suit an outing as I delivered my Harold White Fellowship presentation. Thanks to everyone who came along. If you missed it or want to relive the fun, the NLA has made a podcast available. My slides are also […]

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