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Paul Vierthaler

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This episode is an interview with Paul Vierthaler on how he has used text mining and analysis with large corpora of pre-modern Chinese literature. Paul discusses how and why he learned how to code – while in the middle of dissertation writing – and how he integrated what he found into a broader quantitative-qualitative project. He then outlines his latest research, which uses sequence alignment and stylometry to analyze and guess the authors of a wide swath of anonymously and pseudonymously authored books written in late imperial China. Relevant links: – Paul’s website – Leiden Centre for Digital Humanities – Fiction and history: polarity and stylistic gradience in late imperial Chinese literature (article on cultural analytics written by Paul) – Analyzing printing trends in late imperial China using large bibliometric datasets (another article written by Paul) – Ten thousand rooms project – China Biographical Database

This episode is an interview with <a href="https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/paul-vierthaler#tab-1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Paul Vierthaler</a> on how he has used text mining and analysis with large corpora of pre-modern Chinese literature. Paul discusses how and why he learned how to code – while in the middle of dissertation writing – and how he integrated what he found into a broader quantitative-qualitative project. He then outlines his latest research, which uses sequence alignment and stylometry to analyze and guess the authors of a wide swath of anonymously and pseudonymously authored books written in late imperial China. Relevant links: – <a href="https://www.pvierth.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Paul’s website</a> – <a href="https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/humanities/centre-for-digital-humanities" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Leiden Centre for Digital Humanities</a> – <a href="http://culturalanalytics.org/2016/05/fiction-and-history-polarity-and-stylistic-gradience-in-late-imperial-chinese-literature/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Fiction and history: polarity and stylistic gradience in late imperial Chinese literature</a> (article on cultural analytics written by Paul) – <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/656589" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Analyzing printing trends in late imperial China using large bibliometric datasets</a> (another article written by Paul) – <a href="http://tenthousandrooms.yale.edu/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ten thousand rooms project</a> – <a href="https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/cbdb" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">China Biographical Database</a>

Podcast 8: Paul Vierthaler on text analysis and stylometry