Natural Language Processing Tools for the Digital Humanities

Christopher Manning

In June 2011, I taught a tutorial at Digital Humanities 2011 at Stanford.

Data

Download the data zip file.

Slides

These were updated slightly on 26 June 2011.

pptx.

pdf.

Tools

• jEdit
• CasualConc (Mac OS X only)
  • For Windows, try an evaluation copy of Wordsmith Tools
• GATE (General Architecture for Text Engineering, Sheffield)
• MorphAdorner
• Stanford NLP software. I'll actually demo at some point most everything on that page, but if you just want to start with a few try in order:
  • Stanford POS tagger
  • Stanford Parser
  • Stanford Named Entity Recognizer
  • Stanford CoreNLP
  • Stanford Chinese Word Segmenter
  • Stanford Classifier
  • Stanford Topic Modeling Toolbox