Avery Blankenship’s scientific contributions

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Understanding and Creating Word Embeddings
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January 2024

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The Programming Historian

Avery Blankenship

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Sarah Connell

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Quinn Dombrowski

Word embeddings allow you to analyze the usage of different terms in a corpus of texts by capturing information about their contextual usage. Through a primarily theoretical lens, this lesson will teach you how to prepare a corpus and train a word embedding model. You will explore how word vectors work, how to interpret them, and how to answer humanities research questions using them.

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... .html. A lesson for an analogous word2Vec method in Python has been published by the Programming Historian, including a discussion of parameters (Blankenship et al. 2024 varying the training using n-grams, which, in the end, allowed us to access different sorts of discourse. For example, we found that training the WVM for multi-word n-grams was particularly useful for word groupings common in the narrative and formulaic manumission requests or for Arabic idafa constructions. ...

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Exploring Gulf Manumission Documents with Word Vectors
Understanding and Creating Word Embeddings
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  • January 2024

The Programming Historian