Shakespeare Machine: New AI-Based Technologies for Textual Analysis.

This article demonstrates a method using tools from the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) to aid in analyzing theatrical texts and similar works. The method deploys pre-trained large language model neural networks to gather metadata for a text that is amenable to downstream statistical anal...

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Publicado en:Digital Scholarship in the Humanities Vol. 39; no. 2; pp. 522 - 532
Autores principales: Ehrett, Carl, Ghita, Lucian, Ranwala, Dillon, Menezes, Alison
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Publicado: Oxford University Press / USA Jun2024
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