Deforming Shakespeare's Sonnets: Topic Models as Poems.
This essay topic models Shakespeare's Sonnets as an act of computational deformance in order to propose that word clouds are poems. The Sonnets have never been topic modeled: while there are legitimate mathematical objections to doing so, yet there are good reasons to bring together a highly useful...
| Publicado en: | Criticism Vol. 61; no. 3; pp. 387 - 413 |
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| Formato: | Poetry Review |
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Wayne State University Press
Summer2019
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