Matthew L. Jockers

Before I ever became a computational humanist, I was a James Joyce scholar.

I recently reread David Epstein’s Range (2019), a book I first encountered a few years ago when it seemed every leadership forum was extolling the virtues of grit, 10,000 hours, and early specialization.

Back when I was working on Macroanalysis, Gephi was a young and sometimes buggy application.

On Friday I posted an updated version of Syuzhet (1.0.4) to CRAN.

On April 6th, 2015, I posted Requiem for a low pass filter acknowledging that the smoothing filter as I had implemented it in the beta version of Syuzhet was not performing satisfactorily.

Back in December I posted results from a human validation experiment in which machine extracted sentiment values were compared to human coded values.

Eight months ago I began a series of blog posts about my experiments using sentiment analysis as a proxy for plot movement.

This morning Andrew N.

Ben Schmidt’s and Scott Enderle’s recent entries into the syuzhet discussion have beaten the last of the low pass filter out of me.

While developing the Syuzhet package–a tool for tracking relative shifts in narrative sentiment–I spent a fair amount of time gut-checking whether the sentiment values returned by the machine methods were a good match for my own sense of the narrative sen…