In this post written on a rainy Sunday, I gather the concepts of mathematical induction and distant reading around character network analysis. Probably that it should have been divided into to smaller posts, but I found interesting to discuss in parallel scalability in mathematics and literary studies.
Tag: character network
Centrality measures as a signature of roles in Rousseau’s Les Confessions
Here is a blog-formatted version of the text which won the Best Paper Award at the first Texas Digital Humanities Conference (TxDHC) in Houston, this spring (2014). The work was done jointly with Prof. Frédéric Kaplan and Cyril Bornet. The text of Les Confessions is available in [French] or [English]. In this work, we investigate how a selection of… Continue reading Centrality measures as a signature of roles in Rousseau’s Les Confessions