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Literary Exploration Machine A Web-Based Application for Textual Scholars

Maciej Maryl
Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

Maciej Piasecki
Faculty of Computer Science and Management, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland

Tomasz Walkowiak
Faculty of Electronics, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland

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Published in: Selected papers from the CLARIN Annual Conference 2017, Budapest, 18–20 September 2017

Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 147:11, p. 128-144

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Published: 2018-05-16

ISBN: 978-91-7685-273-6

ISSN: 1650-3686 (print), 1650-3740 (online)

Abstract

This paper presents a design of a web-based application for textual scholars. The goal of this project is to create a complex and stable research environment allowing scholars to upload the texts they analyse and either explore them with a suite of dedicated tools or transform them into a different format (e.g. text, table, list, spreadsheet). The latter functionality is especially important for research focusing on Polish texts (due to the rich morphology and weakly constrained word order of Polish) because it allows for their further processing with tools built for English. This project utilises the existing CLARIN-PL applications and supplements them with new functionalities.

Keywords

digital literary studies natural language processing text mining content analysis web-based system

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