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Matthew L. Jockers
Researcher at Florida State University College of Arts and Sciences
Publications - 26
Citations - 1094
Matthew L. Jockers is an academic researcher from Florida State University College of Arts and Sciences. The author has contributed to research in topics: Regular expression & Word lists by frequency. The author has an hindex of 12, co-authored 26 publications receiving 997 citations. Previous affiliations of Matthew L. Jockers include University of Nebraska–Lincoln & Washington State University.
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Macroanalysis: Digital Methods and Literary History
TL;DR: This volume introduces readers to large-scale literary computing and the revolutionary potential of macroanalysis--a new approach to the study of the literary record designed for probing the digital-textual world as it exists today, in digital form and in large quantities.
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A comparative study of machine learning methods for authorship attribution
TL;DR: Each of the methods tested performed well, but nearest shrunken centroids and regularized discriminant analysis had the best overall performances with 0/70 cross-validation errors.
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Significant themes in 19th-century literature
Matthew L. Jockers,David Mimno +1 more
TL;DR: This work applies statistical methods to identify and extract hundreds of topics (themes) from a corpus of 19th-century British, Irish, and American fiction to assess how external factors may predict fluctuations in the use of themes and the individual word choices within themes.
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Text Analysis with R for Students of Literature
TL;DR: The paper discusses Text Quality, Text Variety, and Parsing XML, which aims to clarify the role of text quality in the development of text analysis techniques.
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Reassessing authorship of the Book of Mormon using delta and nearest shrunken centroid classification
TL;DR: The findings support the hypothesis that Rigdon was the main architect of the Book of Mormon and are consistent with historical evidence suggesting that he fabricated the book by adding theology to the unpublished writings of Spalding (then deceased).