Awesome opportunity for NLP & book-minded ML researcher on my team in Apple’s Seattle office:

Delighted that @CopyrightOffice recommended granting (with limitations) our client @AuthorsAlliance petition for an exemption to circumvention liability for academic researchers who wish to carry out text and data mining of ebooks and motion pictures 1/4

My contribution for #DayofDH2021 An R wrapper for MALLET. See https://t.co/l7x9atxlZx (and please contribute). Room for improvement (and better docs) before going to CRAN, but handles all the main TM functions out of the box. Requires MALLET be installed. @dmimno

PLOS ONE and Guest Editors @peterdodds, Mirta Galesic, @MohitIyyer, and @mljockers are excited to announce the release of our Science of Stories Collection! Read an overview of the collection at https://t.co/e7FbcZyMuu and find the articles here: https://t.co/66rB5mhocu

New pub on “The Pace of Modern Culture” with Lambert, Ben, Georgios Kontonatsios, Matthias Mauch, Theodore Kokkoris, Sophia Ananiadou, and Armand M. Leroi. See: Nature Human Behaviour, January 20, 2020.

@mljockers and @flnasc use text mining and machine learning methods to analyse the Bush versus Gore case that made George W. Bush president.

📣 To all fans of #interdisciplinary research 🧪🧮📔 in #NLP, #NetSci, #DigitalHumanities: 8 days left to submit to @PLOSONE #ScienceofStories Call for Papers. Submit to 🦸‍♀️-Guest Editors @MohitIyyer @peterdodds @mljockers and Mirta Galesic @sfiscience!

New article in DSH with Nascimento (@flnasc) and Taylor “Judging style: The case of Bush versus Gore”

Observations on “The Humanities and the Future” from the chair of the astronomy department at Harvard University:

Did you know data can help predict whether a book will be a bestseller? @mljockers and Jodie Archer reveal their Bestseller Code on "Fixed That For You". Then author @StephenMarche uses part of that code to write a machine-assisted sci-fi story! #FTFY https://t.co/G73RpettuM

“The Passamaquoddy Reclaim Their Culture Through Digital Repatriation” New Yorker article featuring the @mukurtu cms developed in the Center for Digital Scholarship and Curation at WSU.

“What students really need are new alliances between disciplines”. Very good article by @Ted_Underwood on tech & humanities at https://t.co/C1N4EFVLbQ To his book rec list, I would add Scott Hartley’s *The Fuzzy and the Techie* for a non-academic perspective.

PLOS One CFP: “The Science of Stories.” See

Brilliant lecture on liberal arts, business, employment, and the tech industry from Michael Zimm (@classiczimm), a classics PhD turned "Digital Surgeon"(@digitalsurgeons)

. . . non-paywall copy of new article with Lei Lei in Journal of Quantitative Linguistics: Normalized Dependency Distance: Proposing a New Measure

"Normalized Dependency Distance: Proposing a New Measure." New article with Lei Lei in the Journal of Quantitative Linguistics [paywall] introduces NDD as possible/better measure of sentence level syntactic complexity: ( https://t.co/fmLVwClN09)

Programming languages: R and Python are joining forces to improve interoperability in data science — Quartz

'No Reasonable Person': The Rhetoric of Justice Scalia. New article with George Taylor and Fernando Nascimento:

Updated Syuzhet (1.04) now on CRAN includes support for multiple languages, custom lexicons, and parallel processing. Brief write-up here: https://t.co/9hUhQRDu9H Ongoing development at https://t.co/QGBjI88unv My thanks to contributors

Grateful shout out & props to @hadleywickham @winston_chang and whole @rstudio team. Just ran latest version of devtools::release(). Even has spell checking of documentation now. SHAZAM!