This exercise was prepared by Prod. Géraldine Castel, University Grenoble AlpesILCEA4 Lab for the That Camp event (http://ugainvalence2018.thatcamp.org)
Objective
Have an intuitive look to the use of statistics and other language processing tools for analysing text and discovering knowledge
Material
- https://voyant-tools.org
- Data to analyse:
- Word file: Doyle-Baskervilles
- Here is Doyle-Baskervilles in plain text
ToDo
Click on Upload and upload de Doyle-Baskervilles file. Then, click on Reveal.
- Hover with your mouse on the menu above the word cloud to find the button Define options for this tool.
- In the Stopwords section, choose English, then Edit List. Add to the list the words you see in the cloud which are useless to understand the plot. Then click on Confirm. Look at the cloud and then find out where the story is taking place and who are the main characters.
- Type ‘Baskerville’ in the box in the bottom right corner of the screen, and if necessary choose it in the popup list, then click on Contexts.
- What more can you find out about the plot and the characters? By double clicking on the lines, a wider context is given and you have the full extract in the central panel.
- Then go to Trends, just above. Type ‘Holmes’ in the box underneath the graph. What do you notice?
- Now delete ‘Holmes’ from the box and instead, type the names Stapleton, Barrymore and Mortimer.
- Looking at the graph, which suspect is the first to be eliminated by the investigators? Who do you think is the murderer in the end?
Get extra points: Use slack channel to propose answers and observations