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DH2017 - Personæ: A Character-Visualisation Tool for Dramatic Texts

DH2017 - Personæ: A Character-Visualisation Tool for Dramatic Texts

David Kelly, Lindsay Reid and Justin Tonra; National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland.

Presentation slides for the short-paper session given at DH2017 (http://dh2017.adho.org).

Abstract: This paper explores the development of the Personæ tool (www.davidkelly.ie/projects/personae/), an interactive resource for exploring patterns of speeches by and mentions of characters in dramatic texts. Initially developed to examine works by Shakespeare, the tool has broad application to dramatic texts

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August 09, 2017
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  1. Personæ:
    A Character-Visualisation
    Tool for Dramatic Texts
    David Kelly Lindsay Reid Justin Tonra
    Digital Humanities 2017
    [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

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  3. Yose et al (2016), Grandjean
    (2015), Moretti (2011), Stiller, et
    al. (2003).
    Xanthos, et al. (2016)
    Previous Work

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  4. Brief
    Technical
    Overview.

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  5. XML

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  6. Python

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  7. JSON

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  8. D3.js

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  9. Iterative
    Design
    Process

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  10. Iteration
    1.

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  11. The Comedy of Errors

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  13. Iteration
    2.

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  18. Iteration
    3.

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  24. Next
    Steps.

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  25. davidkelly.ie/projects/personae
    Demos
    Code
    github.com/dh-nuigalway/personae

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  26. David Kelly
    [email protected]
    Thank you.
    Lindsay Reid
    [email protected]
    Justin Tonra
    [email protected]

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